Example sentences of "[noun sg] of the way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Could they be introduced as token , surface changes or do they necessitate a fundamental reorganization of the way the school operates ? |
| 2 | Others think that this pattern of seven days is simply the most vivid means of expressing the creative energy and satisfaction of God , the orderliness and simple majesty of the way he created all things . |
| 3 | In conclusion it should be noted that power already exists to utilise delegated legislation to go a good deal of the way along the road proposed by the Royal Commission . |
| 4 | He is , of course , exceptional , but his sharp perception of the way in which teachers orient their expectations of black kids and his response to that perception was by no means out of the ordinary . |
| 5 | Since Hubel and Wiesel began publishing their work in the late 1950s , there has been an increasing appreciation of the way in which nervous systems are so structured as to ensure that certain events of special importance to the organism have an increased likelihood of triggering activity in the relevant places . |
| 6 | To the Marxist historian Michael Chanan the halls were merely ‘ tools of commercial exploitation ’ but a more balanced view would rely on an appreciation of the way in which ‘ live ’ variety revealed as much about showmen as it did about ‘ humanity at large ’ . |
| 7 | Understanding the construction of meanings and self-concepts involves an appreciation of the way actors interpret the process of interaction . |
| 8 | They made love slowly and with deep appreciation of the way their bodies fitted together perfectly , like pieces of a perfect puzzle . |
| 9 | Appreciation of the ways in which the various shapes are related enables the teacher to ask further leading questions when a suitable opening presents itself in a child 's play ( e.g. commenting on the way the flat slabs will go together to make a staircase of three steps — ‘ What would we need to make the next step ? ’ ) . |
| 10 | In it you made no mention of the way in which some Third World leaders are attempting to redress the political imbalance between North and South by resorting to the terrorist tactic of hostage-taking . |
| 11 | The functionalist view I advocate is that mental phenomena emerge as a result of the way that the neurons etcetera are functionally organized in the brain , not as a result of the physical properties of neurons per se . |
| 12 | There is no insistence from management that a certain proportion of tickets be given every shift , so his behaviour was more a result of the way that he defined the role of neighbourhood policemen as having crime control responsibilities . |
| 13 | There is an underlying hostility to the arts in Britain on the part of the mass of people and that , I think , is a result of the way in which the arts have become associated in many people 's minds with snobbery , with money and , in the case of Scotland , with anglicisation . |
| 14 | The decline in the total number of farms in the Cantal LFA , though similar proportionally to the decline in Powys , is almost certainly more due to French national policies for improving farm structures ( including remembrement ) than to aspects of the UK 's LFA , there is much less direct official encouragement to improve agricultural structures ; rather it is the result of the way the LFA Directive is implemented , in particular the HLCA payment system . |
| 15 | As a result of the way in which the husband carried out this function the wife executed the documents believing that her liability would be limited to £60,000 . |
| 16 | They have their effects only as a result of the way the rest of the embryo develops , which in turn is influenced by the effects of patterns in other parts of the DNA . |
| 17 | As a result of the way in which the knives fall , all the Scottish provisions can be thoroughly debated , although they will not be debated separately . |
| 18 | So two identical firms can end up with different reported earnings purely as a result of the way in which they elect to treat their capital assets . |
| 19 | Many communities had become sharply divided as a result of the way the penal laws had been enforced at the local level , and understandably Nonconformists retained a deep distrust of their Anglican neighbours who until recently had been the agents of their destruction . |
| 20 | ‘ My deepest concern is that the future of the ferry service itself may be in jeopardy , particularly as a result of the way in which £6 million was invested in the operation in 1990 . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ My deepest concern is that the future of the ferry service itself may be in jeopardy , particularly as a result of the way in which £6 million was invested in the operation in 1990 . ’ |
| 22 | In contrast to this , I wish to argue that if disabled people display psychological abnormalities , this is because they have been socialised into such traits as a result of the ways in which society meets , or fails to meet , our needs , and that the claim that such features are a consequence of impairment is itself an aspect of the oppression of disabled people since it misidentifies , and thus does nothing to overcome , the main source of psychological distress . |
| 23 | While the judge said some questions remained unresolved , Microsoft 's lawyer David McDonald concluded : ‘ If it is n't a complete victory , it was more than 95 p.c. of the way . ’ |
| 24 | Erm just er presentation of the programme of the way and the , the way we tried to get into everything . |
| 25 | They 're sort of things to focus on points of focus within when you 're receiving Confirmation of the ways in which through Confirmation you can enhance the gifts which you already have and focus in on the power of the Holy Spirit through those gifts . |
| 26 | ‘ As a biologist , my main interest has for some years been human genetics , the study of the way in which various characteristics are passed from parent to offspring . |
| 27 | The motor skills domain has received far less attention than the cognitive and affective , and objectives in this field are perhaps best devised from a study of the way skills are learned . |
| 28 | The reason why I have detained readers of New Scientist with such minutiae is that the ‘ Mink on Shetland ’ presents us with a case study of the way in which decisions affecting the wildlife of Britain are being left to the ephemeral whims of local personages . |
| 29 | They provide a wholly convincing study of the way white Rhodesians were weakened by their own propaganda . |
| 30 | But I would argue that there is a place too for a more structured approach — for the inclusion in the language curriculum of some kind of planned study of the way written language works . |