Example sentences of "[vb base] [conj] [art] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Small changes in the choices we make or the way we behave can make us part of the solution rather than the problem . |
| 2 | Frankly , however minor the item in the programme , you ca n't be too careful what you say or the way you say it . |
| 3 | Studies in first language ( see Peters 1983 ) and second language acquisition ( see Gleason 1982 ; Vihman 1982 ) suggest that the way learners proceed is to begin with these units as lexical complexes associated with certain contexts and then pick them apart analytically as the need arises . |
| 4 | A country 's power can be measured by its military and economic resources and the signing of arms agreements ; and growth in market , rather than government , control of economies suggest that the way in which these resources are being used is changing . |
| 5 | Taken together , the historical and contemporary British and American examples reviewed above suggest that the way trade unions are perceived by society and responded to by the state are key factors in the genesis of industrial confrontation . |
| 6 | French officials realise that the way they have subsidised Africans is the wrong one . |
| 7 | There are those concerned with the way we eat , the way we sleep and the way we open the door . |
| 8 | We tend to assess people through what they say and the way they say it , to come to conclusions about whether we will like someone from the way they present themselves in words . |
| 9 | Each character still begins a new line , so we know when a new person is speaking , but the ‘ said Puttermessers ’ and ‘ said Xanthippes ’ are pared to the bone : we have to deduce who is speaking from what they say and the way they say it . |
| 10 | Other signals may be rooted in our own culture or sub-culture — our clothes and our hair styles , for example , tell other people as much about us as what we say and the way we behave . |
| 11 | There is only one qualification : money — The money you make and the way you make it . |
| 12 | If you read that the way you picked up a wine glass was magical , then you can never do that again unself-consciously ’ — Actress Anna Massey . |
| 13 | Amongst other things , the food you eat , the clothes you wear and the way you are using heat in your home are very important . |
| 14 | Some Japanese maintain that the way in which society operates has changed little since the 1930s . |
| 15 | Spouses who know that the way they behave will affect their partners ' chances of getting a job should try and find out beforehand what is expected of them . |
| 16 | Engineers know that the way to make something that resists damage is to give it a modular structure . |
| 17 | Erm , I know that the way that I do it every time |
| 18 | Even they know that the way they 've been running the club is hardly likely to gain them a good press . |
| 19 | We less frequently ask ourselves whether what and how we teach and the way in which we organise and manage our schools could themselves be a major cause of children 's difficulties . |
| 20 | ‘ That you do n't like my face or the way I talk or the way I work ? ’ |
| 21 | We believe that a way forward through the practical difficulties rehearsed above might be a simple requirement that a lender refusing a credit application ( or requiring special conditions ) should state the reason in whatever terms he wished ; and that this requirement should be coupled to a requirement that ( as a condition of their Consumer Credit Act licence ) lenders should each make a statement of their lending practice to the Director General of Fair Trading . |
| 22 | Few in industry or the institutions believe that the way the financial institutions operate has deprived firms of funds they should have had , or has constrained investment . |
| 23 | The marginalisation of girls in mathematics is an exemplar of many parallel trends and I believe that the way forward here , as in others , is through a study of the dynamic processes involved . |
| 24 | No no because you want , you reckon that the way to stop things is to put , have rules on everything you know ? |
| 25 | I feel that the way one answers that question depends very much on one 's perspective . |
| 26 | Greg son ( 1987 : 5 ) identifies eight separate ways in which the term has been used but considers that these fall into three broad categories , the first concerned with ‘ the scale at which certain social and economic processes operate and the way in which the local , in the form of particular places , might relate to this ’ . |
| 27 | Links and connections will begin to be made between the way counsellees think or feel and the way they behave . |
| 28 | and the a the idea of of erm the butch woman in dungarees , as being the feminist , erm and the women that burnt her bra or whatever was a feminist of the seventies , but it does n't mean to say that the ideas are n't still there , and I still want to be treated as an equal , but I do , I do n't see that I should change the way that I dress or the way that that I want to act |
| 29 | th th they defend that against the Japanese and then in , early in forty seven the come in and take it over so it 's an enormous psychological shock erm and they recognize that erm they , they , they do need to er they recognize that the way is through mass support , they think that 's what they 've got ta get , and they 've got ta get it quickly . |
| 30 | The products you use and the way you treat your hair will help prevent making the problem worse . |