Example sentences of "[is] [art] way [prep] which [pron] " in BNC.

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1 The importance of such policies is the way in which they redistribute resources and accessibility within the countryside .
2 The first and most obvious is the way in which they work .
3 Their most important asset is the way in which they can deflect light .
4 That is the way in which they think that they can make the economy grow .
5 Eleven such triple junctions , each possibly associated with a separate hot spot , have been identified on the continental part of the African Plate and an intriguing problem is the way in which they may subsequently promote continental rupture and develop into spreading centres .
6 Perhaps more interesting than the individual entries is the way in which they are cross-referenced to so many other entries in the encyclopedia .
7 One of the oddest features of human history is the way in which we use randomizing devices — the fall of dice , cards , or millet sticks , the tea-leaves in the bottom of a cup , the cracks in a scapula thrown on the fire — to foretell the future .
8 Of all the obstacles to learning , perhaps the greatest is the way in which we approach practice .
9 Part of the secret , as I tried to demonstrate in the last chapter , is the way in which we discuss again and again our ideas and proposals up and down the company , continuously adjusting , altering and probing our positions until , at last , we reach a conclusion which we can all accept and work to .
10 ‘ It has to be in our interests … for us to try to get more jobs in West Belfast … that is the way in which we will reduce the terrorist menace , by making people economically independent from terrorism .
11 We prefer this because we believe that this is the way in which we can learn from our mistakes ; and that in finding that our conjecture was false we shall have learnt much about the truth , and shall have got nearer to the truth .
12 That is the right way to help people , it is the right way to achieve long-term prosperity for this country and it is the way in which we have been developing our policies .
13 That is the way in which we should deport ourselves .
14 One of its striking features is the way in which it grapples with the many difficult and conflicting issues which that report — and all the other soul-searching reviews of the 1980s — had highlighted .
15 A further distinguishing feature of the Duval-Leroy is the way in which it has its feet firmly planted in the vineyards rather than in the cities of Reims or Épernay .
16 One of the most striking and curious aspects of the social history of child abuse is the way in which it was denied and ignored by the professionals , notably doctors .
17 Even more amazing than this remote-control brooding is the way in which it visits the mound at regular intervals and tests the temperature inside with its beak .
18 It will be argued that one of the central features of the business company is the way in which it centralizes the authority to manage the capital which it aggregates from its investors in the hands of corporate managers .
19 But it is the way in which it is exercised which is the key .
20 What is so interesting about this is the way in which it both resembles , and differs from , Kuhn 's account of changes in ‘ paradigm ’ .
21 The most interesting feature of this study , however , is the way in which it compared the preferred jobs of school-leavers with those obtained , revealing the gap between aspirations and reality .
22 Mixture of paraphrase and quotation One of the most striking features of detective fiction , as Patricia Craig points out , is the way in which it " accommodates all kinds of topical ideologies " .
23 One of the more striking aspects of the table of results is the way in which it highlights certain configurations of sentences which are almost invariable across all groups .
24 But the other way in which our Party has a future is the way in which I would like to see it have a future .
25 And even more interesting is the way in which I see myself differently .
26 What they do n't spend much time on is the way in which you are supposed to approach learning the new skills .
27 an added speed factor is the way in which you go over the waves — just like a ski racer , the longer you spend in the air the slower you go .
28 Chopin 's ever-spellbinding cycle is mercilessly tragic — the three low notes at the end of the final Prélude leave no room for optimism — and one of the most impressive things about Dmitry Alexeev 's fine performance is the way in which he keeps intensity and concentration on the boil throughout all of the minor key pieces in the cycle 's latter half .
29 But whatever we may take or reject from Freud , what I think we should not lose is the way in which he raises questions and problematises things which are sometimes taken for granted .
30 But what holds the attention more is the way in which he characterises these rough incidents — which , judged by other accounts of the period , would commonly involve assaults on the police , bottle-fights and sometimes determined crowd resistance to arrest — as a ‘ good time ’ and a ‘ cheerful ’ brawl .
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