Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [art] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | The union 's research officer and main advocate , David Feickert , bitterly attacked the way that energy policy had been reduced to a question of how to beat the miners . |
| 2 | But baseball is sure eventually to find a way to put its financial house in order . |
| 3 | New opportunities rarely fit the way the industry has always approached the market , defined it , or organized to serve it . |
| 4 | Yesterday Norman Lamont changed his policy three times in ten hours , putting up interest rates , putting them up again , changing his mind , perhaps , about the second increase and finally deciding to leave the ERM , effectively paving the way for devaluing the pound . |
| 5 | Congress reluctantly capitulated to this final demand on Sept. 1 , thereby opening the way for Wilson to end the impasse by signing the budget bill in the early hours of Sept. 2 . |
| 6 | By taking away a people 's culture and pride in their appearance , you literally change the way they see themselves . ’ |
| 7 | An auxiliary , therefore , does not evoke a separate event from that expressed by the verb form it accompanies , but merely denotes the way the latter 's event is conceived , the point of view from which the speaker regards it . |
| 8 | She sat with bowed head for a moment then looked directly at him and replied , ‘ It is only my child , sir , the wanting of my child , and suddenly seeing a way to get him , and then it being taken away . |
| 9 | The extent and nature of the support which is necessary and available will obviously affect the way in which the situation is appraised . |
| 10 | It 's the shoulder that 's giving him a problem and er that 's always tricky because er it can er obviously affect the way a defender approaches the more physical aspect of his job . |
| 11 | If trams no longer had an obvious technological advantage they also suffered from an institutional disadvantage-of having to pay for the upkeep of the roads they used , up to a distance of 46 cm ( 18 inches ) either sides of their tracks literally paving the way for motor buses . |
| 12 | Abortifacient contraceptives , embryo experimentation and abortion itself deny the principle of the sanctity of life from conception onwards and so pave the way for euthanasia . |
| 13 | They merely pave the way for an increasing proportion of those emissions to come from the burning of imported coal . |
| 14 | Helen had confessed at lunch that she would sooner have been three behind than three in front — and when news came , after the first 10 holes of the fourth round , that she had fallen one to the rear of the Australian , one had the feeling that she was merely paving the way for a last-minute attack . |
| 15 | It is often asserted that the First World War rescued the Unionist Party from an impossible position and left it poised to become the dominating force ; the war broke up Liberalism and destroyed the Liberal-Labour alliance , so opening the way for Unionism ; Lloyd George carried the party to victory in 1918 , incurred the odium for the post-war slump and was cast aside ungratefully in 1922 . |
| 16 | But what about adding a twist to the puzzle : the task is not merely to find a way out , but to find the shortest route to the way out . ’ |
| 17 | Yet with a frail woman 's tenderness that could surely be touched by the man clever enough to find the way . |
| 18 | Their success in this area so changed the way British films were perceived that , in 1932 , a year when a large number of exhibitors substantially over-filled their quota , the American showbiz journal Variety reported on ‘ the complete stranglehold the home-made pictures had established at the local box office . ’ |
| 19 | There is of course the argument about the maintenance of the countryside and that the countryside only looks the way it does , because of the fox hunting . |
| 20 | Subsequent developments , including the isolation of cell components , the recognition of DNA in the cell nucleus as the purveyor of hereditary information and the determination of its structure in the 1950s by Watson and Crick , have all paved the way for the genetic engineering of the 1980s . |
| 21 | I repeat , however , that a guillotine greatly injures the way in which the House operates . |
| 22 | The syntax defined by the Guidelines not only formalizes the way in which such features are encoded , but also provides for a detailed specification of legal feature value/pair combinations and rules determining , for example , the implication of under-specified or defaulted features . |
| 23 | The leader of a bream shoal merely leads the way and sets a pattern of behaviour that the rest of the shoal follow . |
| 24 | [ That this House regrets the Government 's failure to deal with the imminent threat of wholesale breaches of the law on Sunday trading ; expresses concern that Ministers appear to be running away from their responsibility to uphold the law as soon as one or more large commercial organisations express their intention to ignore the law ; greatly regrets the way that this situation puts pressure on responsible and law-abiding retailers to open on Sundays simply to protect their market share ; further regrets the damage that is likely to be done to small shops and family businesses as a consequence ; considers that sensible progress to modernising the law should be made on the basis of the REST proposals put forward by Keep Sunday Special ; and calls on the Government actively to pursue the regulation of Sunday trading in a way which deals fairly with employees , their families and with community and commercial interests . ] |
| 25 | I especially like the way they have used clinical interviews and illustrative case studies from other researchers , to ground their theory . |
| 26 | Benny Alexander , the PAC 's secretary-general , claimed that the government 's action was motivated by a desire to force his organisation out of the negotiations and so smooth the way for an agreement that would be amenable to the ‘ white settler regime ’ . |
| 27 | I mean my mood so affected the way the class was but that was something that I did n't think could be helped at all … and the difference was amazing you know , when you 're feeling OK and you 're being relaxed . |
| 28 | It is a kind of catharsis for both the Lebanese and the Palestinians who have long understood the way in which these dreadful events should be interpreted . |
| 29 | MBV and Lush are perhaps pointing the way with their 50/50 male-female splits . |
| 30 | I am not one who believes that extra resources necessarily solve problems or necessarily smooth the way to their solution . |