Example sentences of "[to-vb] in [art] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't think you , you 've , you 've got to try in a way not to shut it off too much erm and yet it , i you 've just got to sort of be able to not shut it off but sort of create different areas |
| 2 | She then stood next to the telephone box , her stomach beginning to tighten in a way which was becoming sickeningly familiar . |
| 3 | ( v ) There is no agreement on the set of descriptive categories required for an adequate account of a language such as English ; consequently different investigators are likely to differ in the way they identify linguistic features in a text . |
| 4 | Inspired , yes , by a bus run , but the booler is definitely my own husband who is devoted to sport and allows nothing to come in the way of his bowls , both indoor and outdoor bowling . |
| 5 | The black director Spike Lee has made a similar mistake in Malcolm X , not so much in characterisation but in allowing awe of the man who challenged white authority in America to come in the way of good film-making . |
| 6 | The opportunities for pupils to share , compare and contrast ideas are limited , and children are constrained to work in the way the workbook dictates . |
| 7 | Gauging the kind of people you are going to meet in the way of giving you work . |
| 8 | But all of these are rather conspicuous by day and are difficult to hide in the way that spotlights can be masked by plants . |
| 9 | In this case , however , it seemed that the nature of the disease was systematically to destroy those nerve cells essential to the control of sleep , and these unfortunate people probably represent the closest that we can expect to find in the way of a natural experiment on the long-term effects of the denial of sleep . |
| 10 | And once the war had come , the overriding sentiment was the desire for an early peace , desire the readiness to benefit in every way possible from the acquisition and exploitation of the occupied territories . |
| 11 | In short , they learn to relate in a way which is inclusive rather than exclusive . |
| 12 | Nothing has been allowed to stand in the way of the sector 's progress towards profitability . |
| 13 | Well , a little thing like that should not be allowed to stand in the way of such a great man , so Mr Pozsgay now spends one hour a week in the gym . |
| 14 | As for the supposedly devastating impact of the John Major Diary in Private Eye , of which I am also a co-author , I can only say that , despite the article 's prediction , it did not seem to stand in the way of a gratifying number of people giving him their enthusiastic support on Thursday — including myself . |
| 15 | This is simply natural , it 's a fact , you both know that whatever happens , even if God and the Devil were to stand in the way , you will have what you want . |
| 16 | In our view it is manifestly not right that councillors should allow their personal opinions on a political or industrial matter to stand in the way of the right of access of the public to all publications which can reasonably be provided . |
| 17 | Boss Kevin Keegan is not pushing the 30-year-old striker out of the door , but he is unlikely to stand in the way if Quinn decides he wants to leave . |
| 18 | While these differences had not been allowed to stand in the way of the launch of the EEC and its immediate economic schedule , as the organisation moved on to more of its objectives it was always probable that these differences would gain greater expression . |
| 19 | First , if holism and individualism are to be distinct , causation and autonomy must be mutually exclusive categories : if the autonomous character of action is to stand in the way of the truth of determinism , actions can not at the same time be caused . |
| 20 | We felt this should not be allowed to stand in the way of the child protection process , so we tried to put the responsibility where it should properly lie — with the perpetrator . ’ |
| 21 | He listened silently , simply nodding when she had finished He could never marry her and he had no right to stand in the way of any happiness she could find . |
| 22 | But many democrats , in France and elsewhere , were concerned that the traditionally dominant minority of the rich and propertied should no longer be able to stand in the way of the will and the interests of the great majority . |
| 23 | Let us leave aside , for the moment , the practical difficulties which stand or are believed to stand in the way of direct democracy . |
| 24 | Different concerns and procedures , and hence unfamiliarity , should not be allowed to stand in the way of understanding . |
| 25 | In the , when we dealt with the matter of children and communion , we based the whole case upon the doctrine that nothing must be allowed to stand in the way of the grace of God being available for all and sundry . |
| 26 | Nothing must be allowed to stand in the way of that . |
| 27 | When we come to deal with infant baptism we take the view that the failure of parents to measure up to certain standards is to be allowed to stand in the way of the grace of God being available for their children . |
| 28 | But she did n't think it would be advisable to stand in the way of Isabelle Defries , either . |
| 29 | ‘ generally speaking a prosecutor has as much right as a defendant to demand a verdict of a jury on an outstanding indictment , and where either demands a verdict a judge has no jurisdiction to stand in the way of it . |
| 30 | However , we remind ourselves of the principles outlined earlier in this judgment and the observation of Lord Morris of Borth-y-Gest in Connelly v. Director of Public Prosecutions [ 1964 ] A.C. 1254 , 1304 , that ‘ generally speaking a prosecutor has as much right as a defendant to demand a verdict of a jury on an outstanding indictment , and where either demands a verdict a judge has no jurisdiction to stand in the way of it . ’ |