Example sentences of "[prep] be the way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes I wear things that do n't conform because I want to say to people : I do n't want to be the way you want me to be . |
| 2 | This seems to be the way Rawls treats the problem ( though he is sensitive to fallibility concerning applied principles ( see pp. 195–7 ) But quite apart from the fact that by this one assumes that in the original position the parties discount a general fact of human nature , namely its fallibility , this procedure will sanction non-adaptable constitutions — a highly counter-intuitive conclusion . |
| 3 | It is difficult to imagine a world in which the status of your car — and yourself , by implication — centres around miles per gallon , but making economy desirable and fashionable seems to be the way to change the habits of private car owners . |
| 4 | This tends to be the way that the gentlemen work it out . |
| 5 | In post-classical times precatory character came to be the way to distinguish between trusts and civil-law institutions ( said , in contrast , to be ‘ direct ’ ) . |
| 6 | This had to be the way to go . |
| 7 | Grandmother Hilda Mason , of Clapham , south London , said : ‘ I 'm heartbroken but it seems to be the way young people go about their business these days . ’ |
| 8 | Her mother had normal feet , her father had , why did Benny 's have to be the way they were ? |
| 9 | That may be the way the world does its business , but it is not to be the way the Lord 's people should do theirs . |
| 10 | Yes I think we , we started doing that originally because er the people from the Epping group said they did that every month did n't they , they , they issued a press release and sent it to all the local papers , that seems to be the way of doing it . |
| 11 | This seems to be the way things are heading . |
| 12 | Yet this still tends to be the way in which historians do in fact describe Aquitaine . |
| 13 | This seems to be the way it is with men and women ; buckets of water from a well , one drawing deep while the other is empty , and so on , as if there is a physical law governing the amount of emotional nourishment available to a couple . |
| 14 | Looked at objectively , this has got to be the way to go . ’ |
| 15 | But whether serial or parallel processing turns out to be the way the brain works ( there will be more to say about this too in the next chapters ) , there will be cellular events associated with both the short-term and the long-term phase , and we have to try to distinguish between them experimentally . |
| 16 | This turned out to be the way to go . |
| 17 | Joel is n't a Catholic , as you know , but he 's told me that he believes there 's a Providence not so far away from us , really just above our heads if we could see it , that wants things to be the way they 're eventually going . |
| 18 | This may provide another justification for the anthropic principle , for if all the histories are possible , then so long as we exist in one of the histories , we may use the anthropic principle to explain why the universe is found to be the way it is . |
| 19 | You wo n't be staying here for very much longer , and I do n't want your last memory of me to be the way I was yesterday . ’ |
| 20 | With good feedback so far , such programmes appear to be the way forward for a company concerned not only with its staff but also with its customers . |
| 21 | And it has been proved to be the way to do client server software with all of the other major vendors now moving towards this type of implementation . |
| 22 | Happily , this appears to be the way that the human memory works . |
| 23 | The regulation of these factors is widely considered to be the way in which the small intestine adapts to nutritional demands . |
| 24 | I think had we managed to stick it together a bit longer , all fifty of us , and just prove to the management that we were n't gon na be starved back to work which seemed to be the way they wanted us to go back , you know because the board had you know escalated , you know I think had we managed to stick it together , certainly the result would 've been different . |
| 25 | How did things get to be the way they are today ? |
| 26 | A little religion is thought , furthermore , to be the way to reduce crime and promote a stable society . |
| 27 | ‘ I like Luxembourg to be the way it always has been . |
| 28 | Once again a proper scandalous situation , that we we should be working to er relieve , but does n't seem to be the way that the government 's moving . |