Example sentences of "their way as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The low intensity of these rural idylls shows up the problems created by the failure of the commercially-minded companies to generate anything other than fusty , studio-bound melodramas , as unsuccessful in their way as the airy , de-sensationalized productions of their more creative competitors . |
| 2 | Fred Callaghan , the Woking coach and London cabbie , directs his Vauxhall team to Cambridge United confident that his full-strength squad will not lose their way as they did last season in falling 4-1 to the Fourth Division side . |
| 3 | Møns Klint , known all over the world , as famous in their way as the White Cliffs of Dover , would have been bound to find favour with the Hulsbys . |
| 4 | But let them advance along the road at their own pace , overcoming the obstacles on their way as best they can . |
| 5 | Numerous collisions result , yet — such is the nature of class conflict in Britain — no damage is done , and the respective crews pass on their way as though oblivious of each other , hiding in silence and averted eyes the embarrassment of foreigners with no common language . |
| 6 | There 's little hope in this film — the forces of law are as bad in their way as the drug barons . |
| 7 | This is why , after a night of south-easterly winds and rain in spring or in autumn , you can find the islands littered with small birds of many species , all desperately trying to find some food which can replenish the energy reserves sufficiently to enable them to continue on their way as soon as weather allows . |
| 8 | Yet people with more or less stable impairments , struggling to make their way as oppressed citizens , do not usually appear in professional eyes to have much in common with the majority of bewildered , vulnerable people who seek medical help . |
| 9 | Lord , they are as attractive in their way as women anywhere , or so I would suppose . |
| 10 | Most of them went to the cities , or at any rate out of traditional rural pursuits , to find their way as best they could in strange , frightening , but at best boundlessly hopeful new worlds , where the city pavements were said to be paved with gold , though immigrants rarely picked up more than some copper . |
| 11 | Because that ‘ perfectly ’ , that ‘ here ’ , are just as limiting in their way as ‘ with ’ and ‘ about ’ . |