Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [art] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The same goes for the way you record guitar parts , usually . |
| 2 | A new cooker or whatever can be a tremendous boon and investment but before you go out and spend money ask yourself questions about the way you live : is the pace hectic or leisurely ? how many and what sort of meals do you have to provide ? are you far from a good supermarket or freezer centre ? how much time do you have for shopping ? are you out at work all day ? do you grow your own vegetables ? how often do you entertain ? can you spend time on cooking and food preparation or is it always meals in a hurry ? |
| 3 | She looks for no way to comfort herself except by degrading herself by having sex . |
| 4 | In his paper ‘ Analysis Terminable and Interminable ’ ( 1937 ) , which belongs to the same period of Freud 's life as Moses and Monotheism , Freud writes about the way in which nearly all women patients show signs of wishing to be men , and men seek to avoid taking a passive attitude towards other men , including a male therapist . |
| 5 | In Gwendolen she writes of the way a black woman like Sonia , Gwendolen 's mother , is treated , either with polite indifference or as if she is not there . |
| 6 | To some independent insurance-watchers the deal looks like a way to stifle competition . |
| 7 | As Hodder and Riggs ( 1985 ) say , in response to Hayes and Garvin , the fault , if any , in US business lies with the way the DCF technique is often based on inadequate data ( i.e. inadequate consideration of the factors affecting cash flows ) or incorrectly applied ( i.e. incorrectly using discount rates , or adjusting for inflation as discussed in chapter 1 ) . |
| 8 | Calls made to the BT bureau in Ealing , west London , will be passed on as usual , taking into account the traveller 's schedule and the different time zones he or she encounters along the way . |
| 9 | The Scot er we call him what do we call the Scot who lives along the way ? |
| 10 | Poems order experience and share it ; understanding them and writing them involves an act of creativity , and in both activities there is a kind of joy involved when the order of words , or insight into the effect of that order , corresponds with the way things are . |
| 11 | The originality of so much of Ashton 's and MacMillan 's choreography fur classical ballets lies in the way they follow the basic principles and rules in order to create an infinite variety of enchaînements from the traditional vocabulary of steps , and yet discard the conventions . |
| 12 | The strength of the F-Plan lies in the way it affects the calories you consume . |
| 13 | Addressing an audience of sensible and clear-headed gentlemen — the sort of people who had produced the Bloodless Revolution of 1688 — Locke pictured himself as ‘ an under-labourer in clearing the ground a little , and removing much of the rubbish that lies in the way of knowledge ’ . |
| 14 | Its value lies in the way it opens up the issue for reasoned discussion . |
| 15 | An explanation for this negative attitude towards the union lies in the way the women identified themselves in terms of their domestic lives rather than as paid workers . |
| 16 | The fundamental difficulty with business ethics , thinks Mr Stark , lies in the way business schools have chosen to tackle it . |
| 17 | One possible explanation lies in the way in which charge carriers move between crystal lattice planes : the build up of charge carriers on alternate planes of a graphite lattice gives rise to local electrical fields that oppose the main field and generate the out-of-phase conduction . |
| 18 | The significance of the data lies in the way that odd nitrogen is partitioned in autumn in the long-lived reservoir of HNO 3 , rather than the temporary reservoir of N 2 O 5 . |
| 19 | One crucial reason for this lies in the way only one element of Marxist work on the state is used by pluralist critics . |
| 20 | After the failure of dismal conventional buddy movies like Eddie Murphy 's Another 48 Hours , Ricochet 's success ( it grossed over $35 million in the States ) lies in the way director Mulcahy ( Highlander ) , producer Joel Silver ( Die Hard , Lethal Weapon , 48 Hours ) and scriptwriter Steven de Souza , have tampered with the blockbusting buddy film/action movie formula so stylishly . |
| 21 | The relevance of this to the concerns of a chapter on land lies in the way in which location and style are the core of much of the development process . |
| 22 | A big difference lies in the way the final image is recorded . |
| 23 | The Lake District is one of the most compactly beautiful regions in England and so much of its intrinsic attraction lies in the way of life led by native Cumbrians . |
| 24 | The answer probably lies in the way so called principles set up expectations for the future . |
| 25 | The key to its ethical and practical success lies in the way in which the technical problems involved in its production were overcome . |
| 26 | In either case the relevance of the reformulation lies in the way it narrows down , or constrains , the interpretation of the original . |
| 27 | Rather its relevance lies in the way it constrains the interpretation of [ 14a ] so that hearers can see it as an interpretation of the speaker 's thoughts about the state of the pound . |
| 28 | That is , the relevance of the reformulation lies in the way it constrains the interpretation of the first segment so that it matches Carver 's own initial impressions . |
| 29 | It is clearly an undergraduate text ; its use lies in the way it introduces discourse stylistics to a primarily conventional undergraduate group . |
| 30 | Lyotard holds that we can best understand the nature of the unconscious through examining precisely how it is not structured like a language , that the most important criterion of demarcation of the unconscious from the ego lies in the ways that the former does not operate as does language . |