Example sentences of "its way " in BNC.
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| 1 | More recently , and equally significantly , the colony 's stock market had mended its ways . |
| 2 | This makes it less likely that investors would encourage a dissolute borrower to mend its ways by withholding finance . |
| 3 | America wants the Bank to change its ways , and lend less to the third world 's governments and more to its private businesses . |
| 4 | The inefficient , high-margin , over-employing distributive sector is being forced to mend its ways . |
| 5 | The company can mend its ways and make cars as reliable as any of its competitors ' , but the reputation lingers on . |
| 6 | Liberal Democrats are determined to ensure that Britain changes its ways so that it become a leader , not a laggard , in facing the environmental challenge . |
| 7 | ‘ At first , we thought it would be too beautiful to use , ’ admitted Peter , ‘ but we accustomed ourselves to its ways . ’ |
| 8 | Although it has mended its ways in recent years , the NRDC deserves some of the criticism that has come its way . |
| 9 | Takes time to settle into a new place and its ways . ’ |
| 10 | To justify its ways , this week the council releases the first draft of its National Arts and Media Strategy . |
| 11 | ‘ Anyway , Anne , the important thing is to go to court and accustom yourself to its ways , ’ she said practically . |
| 12 | He has made no secret of his irritation with the City and its ways , and in the light of the group 's disastrous plunge to losses of £71m for the year to June , shareholders are being presented with a ‘ sell me your shares or shoot yourselves in the foot ’ type offer . |
| 13 | But these reactions are a later development when anger has begun to take the system over and commandeer all its ways of expressing displeasure . |
| 14 | If you have a very large aquarium , more Ictalurus melas would be ideal if your specimen is not too set in its ways to accept any newcomers . |
| 15 | And attempts to mend its ways are running into trouble . |
| 16 | I do not pretend that these notions can do more than offer a way of thinking about the quantum world with some hope of doing justice both to the idiosyncrasy of its ways and also to the beautiful structure of the microworld which has been laid bare by the discoveries of elementary particle physics . |
| 17 | Such rigidities can be observed in organizations and institutions as well as whole cultures : the small , traditional engineering or textile firm which fails to adapt to the market and goes out of business ; the political party caught between renewal and betrayal ; the institution so deeply set in its ways that it is hardly aware of them . |
| 18 | The ragazza should never have been put down the well , that was the fault of her husband who did n't fully understand the house and was ignorant of its ways . |
| 19 | Clearly an innovating minister has to find ways to get a vast operational organization to change its ways . |
| 20 | Sometimes , as they encountered new crowds of pole-carrying Annamese peasants jogging ceaselessly between market and rice field , or spilling out of their tiny village temples and pagodas , he felt that what had happened was somehow inextricably bound up with the torrid , exotic country that was so totally unfamiliar to him in all its ways , and other distressing images of the recent past began to flood through his mind ; he saw again the brutal French colon lashing the fallen prisoners between the shafts of the cart in Saigon , remembered the horror he had felt at the sight of what he thought were many massacred coolies on the river wharf on their arrival , and he heard once more the thud of the Citron striking the peasant boy on the way to the hunting camp . |
| 21 | Opposition Members may wave their hands , but for those living under the regime of a loony left council , the follies of its ways can not be highlighted enough . |
| 22 | Muldoon , who had won 59 per cent of the vote in Tamaki in the 1990 general election [ for which see pp. 37781-82 ] , had resigned his seat in protest at the economic , health and social welfare policies of Prime Minister Jim Bolger [ see p. 38676 ] , and had appealed to voters to send a message to the government to change its ways . |
| 23 | While he has his backers the nature of Mr Birt 's shake-up at the corporation , introducing distinctly Thatcherite market-forces into an organisation at least as set in its ways as the civil service , but many times more internally political , means there are many ready to use the episode to raise other questions against him . |
| 24 | After all the doubts and uncertainties , wrote Harsnet , most of which I did not admit to myself , or else tried to pretend were an integral part of the project , sense now that it is on its way . |
| 25 | On the one hand , he wrote , it pushes nothing out of its way . |
| 26 | Let it make its way or not , as fate determines . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's on its way out , I think . |
| 28 | If the action is sharp enough your opponent 's punch will graze over the top of your head , helped on its way by a fast rising block . |
| 29 | It stood in the middle of the room , apparently on its way somewhere . |
| 30 | Each one , in its way , might suggest some piece of a natural form which could be used in the creation of a marquetry design . |