Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [art] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a new demand is short-lived , it may be possible to find a way of meeting it without any overall loss of performance . |
| 2 | ‘ Though I 'm sometimes so conscious of lack of technique , it 's also quite exciting to find a way of expressing what you see in a person in lines . |
| 3 | It is interesting to trace the way in which the times of meals have changed over the centuries , particularly because in everyday life it is not just the clock which tells us which part of the day we are in but the meals that we eat . |
| 4 | In other words , the choreographer should set out to create a particular style for the whole dance design , yet within it be free to vary the way of performing a step without breaking away from or distorting the overall rhythmic quality and phrasing of his enchaînements . |
| 5 | France had given ‘ due importance to the kind of rural traditions without which it would be impossible to enjoy a way of life that recognises the importance of elements in our lives which enrich and enoble us , but which are not ‘ cost-effective ’ in strictly economic terms . ’ |
| 6 | Mr Kitson , himself a fellow Yorkshireman and a former member of the county club , added : ‘ I was sad to see the way we lost so many fine young players , not just Neil , to other sides . ’ |
| 7 | Health and Safety and COSHH have been very active in the year and I am delighted to see the way all of our service staff have responded to this . |
| 8 | Techniques analogous to those used in the study of the brain have been applied to these systems and it can be quite instructive to compare the way in which people have approached these non-neural systems with these methods with the way they go about studying the central nervous system . |
| 9 | It is instructive to compare the ways the forest is exploited by two groupings of Amerindians far apart on the terra firme of Amazonia , the Jivaro , in the west under the slopes of the Andes , and the Kayapo in the east . |
| 10 | It was not easy to find a way of presenting prosaic information in a way which would attract parents . |
| 11 | It was easy to find the way to call her . |
| 12 | But I believe it might be possible to get the universities and polytechnics in future to accept a way of selecting candidates that was radically different from either A levels alone , or A and AS levels . |
| 13 | It would have been impossible to predict the way events developed after October 1917 , and the policy of the Party seemed on numerous grounds to be the most sensible , the only one which went some way to reconciling the need for large economic units ( which , rightly or wrongly , was assumed to be decisive for material progress ) and for democracy , understood as the right of peoples to choose their own State . |
| 14 | Yet for psychological insight and acute comment it is not easy to match the way Marryat , in Percival Keene , states and develops the situation of an illegitimate boy steadily and tenaciously working out how to persuade his noble father , under whom he serves as midshipman and later as lieutenant , to acknowledge him openly and alter his reserved , cold but unmistakably responsible behaviour towards his son . |
| 15 | Marshall 's skilful lobbying , which relieved the suffering of many an objector , did much to prepare the way for the relatively unproblematic acceptance of the right to conscientious objection and alternative service in the Second World War . |
| 16 | It was possible to hear the way he summoned the old man , calling his name in a mocking tone , calling out for his dreams , calling that he wished to eat those dreams . |
| 17 | It is hard to see a way out of this impasse . |
| 18 | At present , it is hard to see a way forward . |
| 19 | He is likely to know the way . |
| 20 | He is likely to know the way . |
| 21 | Most analysts identify the South East as the area most likely to lead the way into any recovery . |
| 22 | Future generations are likely to deplore the way current societies are allowing so much of their heritage to be destroyed without record . |
| 23 | As a result the magistrates , never very happy with the Act , were quick to criticize the way it was carried out . |
| 24 | The exhibit 's called ’ Yellow Peril ’ , and is supposed to question the way we in the west think about the Chinese . |
| 25 | I never learned about molecular biology or transistors at school , but genetic engineering and computers are two of the developments most likely to change the way we live in the future . |
| 26 | She still found it hard to assimilate the way her life had changed so drastically in the course of a mere few days . |
| 27 | By solving individual optimisation problems it may be possible to predict the way in which behaviour changes when policy is altered . |
| 28 | The first is that we may find it hard to suppose that facts can cause anything ; surely they are too inert to affect the way the world goes , even where that world is the merely mental world of beliefs . |
| 29 | Voices were raised in support of rounding up all foreigners , but the government was unwilling to go the way of its predecessor in the first world war and order a general internment . |
| 30 | This process has placed enormous pressure upon our employees and it is tremendously encouraging to see the way in which staff have committed themselves to the new organisation . |