Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | In particular , he suggests that the educational system has a marked effect on the production and reproduction of scientific knowledge , and criticizes it for the ahistorical way in which it teaches scientific problems , theories , experiments and proofs . |
| 2 | I can see something of the sort as I look over my own published attempts to describe and account for the peaceful way of life followed by the Semai , and I think I can also see some of the reasons for it . |
| 3 | The nurse should strive for the middle way between total involvement in the job dominating her personal life to the point where her development as a person is impaired and her health jeopardised ; and the other extreme in which she may be technically proficient , but appears totally detached from the work both emotionally and socially . |
| 4 | We believe the police in general should be commended for the professional way they conducted themselves in the face of provocation . ’ |
| 5 | It was like complimenting an assassin for the professional way in which he slides a stiletto under one 's ribs and into the heart . |
| 6 | Will my hon. Friend accept my thanks for the helpful way in which he dealt with my representations on this subject ? |
| 7 | Although it is again not possible to attribute developments definitely and exclusively to the project , the project must take at least some of the credit for the business-like way in which some school libraries now operate . |
| 8 | His ‘ open door ’ to the West appeared to be closing , and the taste for the Western way of life was firmly discouraged . |
| 9 | Mrs Aquino 's advertisement for the democratic way of life is important to Washington . |
| 10 | Two main types of explanation are offered as accounting in these terms for the distinctive ways in which women and men approach moral questions : these are , first , predominantly biological explanations , and , second , predominantly social or cultural explanations . |
| 11 | The collection of essays edited by Joyce ( 1987 ) is an important contribution to the history of work , not only for the satisfying ways in which it challenges orthodoxy about the social and political role of work , but also for its advocacy of the need to rethink work as a social construct . |
| 12 | The single-copy fallacy operates here strongly , for the only way to study the Convention is through copies in the ‘ real world ’ : that is copies obtained at the time and held since by those who attended or their heirs . |
| 13 | It is the dam , however , that makes this virtually impregnable for the only way into it is from the lake through a tunnel that opens underwater . |
| 14 | This situation , in which other countries were relying on the United States to provide them with the dollars needed to boost their reserves , seemed to leave the USA in a highly privileged position , for the only way that other countries could accumulate reserves was if the USA provided them , by spending abroad more than it received . |
| 15 | I have expressed a general thanks to all counsel but special thanks should be recorded to the Official Solicitor and to Mr. Michael Nicholls of his department for the rapid response to my cry for help and for the superb way in which the Official Solicitor and Mr. Butler , who holds his brief , have responded . |
| 16 | There was no way Guy Sterne could be remotely interested in her , and as for the other way around … |
| 17 | We have to control for the other ways in which they might vary . |
| 18 | TRAINING FOR THE NEW WAY OF WORKING |
| 19 | The speaker in the afternoon was Sue Beardon , of Voluntary Action-Leeds , and she helped delegates understand what they must do to prepare themselves for the new ways of working . |
| 20 | Why was it everyone seemed to go for the easy way out ? |
| 21 | No , no ; that sounded too much like the Bible , so she plumped for the simple way and finished , ‘ He has given her a baby . ’ |
| 22 | Uninterrupted power supply is a vital support for the modern way of life . |
| 23 | I am grateful for the constructive way in which my hon. Friend is addressing the problem . |
| 24 | Yet his Concertino of 1920 is a work of historic importance for the clear way in which it marks the connection between his early Russian style and the kind of neoclassicism that occupied him thereafter . |
| 25 | I am grateful to my hon. Friend for the realistic way in which he faces the problem . |
| 26 | Groups in our society such as Friends of the Earth , Greenpeace and the Green party are to be congratulated for the energetic way they are drawing our attention to the issues involved . |
| 27 | He disapproved of his bishop ( A. A. David ) for the tough way in which he handled three recalcitrant Anglo-Catholic priests who refused to conform to rules laid down by the bishop and yet did nothing about the radical dean of the cathedral who did things equally nonconforming in a Low Church direction . |
| 28 | ‘ And if possible try to make amends for the rude way you spoke to Lucy . |
| 29 | I ADMIRE Freddie Starr and his wife Sandie for the mature way they are handling the end of their 18-year marriage . |
| 30 | Equally , if the mouse was a pest and we are pleased to see the end of it , we do not praise the cat for the saintly way in which it has fulfilled its duty to its household . |