Example sentences of "the way " in BNC.
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| 1 | The presence that rose thus so strangely beside the waters , is expressive of what in the ways of a thousand years men had come to desire . |
| 2 | Even school-teaching Graham , who is meant to be amusingly boring , is good with words , in one of the ways that teachers sometimes are . |
| 3 | You should also look at the ways in which the physical movements of the actor are organised to suit the restraints of the small screen . |
| 4 | And , although nobody wishes to be exploited with low wages and very difficult conditions , it is frankly better to find the ways and means of presenting yourself somehow , than not perform at all . |
| 5 | He returns again to the ways in which melodrama is rooted in Indian popular culture . |
| 6 | Clearly , it is important to consider each of the ways in which you can safeguard your equipment because it is no use avoiding all the flying hazards if you are going to write off your glider on the ground . |
| 7 | Series of interlinking metaphors of chaos and inhumanity are generated to maintain this dramatic mode and ensure that the agenda for control remains firmly with the system , and already I have used such metaphorical terms as ‘ animals ’ and ‘ enemies ’ to indicate some of the ways in which those in power make use of the rich imagination contained in everyday language . |
| 8 | In consequence the wealth of research contained in the bibliographies I have mentioned often fails to follow through the deep structures of police culture or establish the ways in which the culture is self-sustaining even in the face of calls for social change . |
| 9 | Any need to analyse the ways in which the multi-variant police world forms a coherent and self-sustaining whole is material for the social scientist and not the practitioners , for they already live the system as a matter of course . |
| 10 | In consequence , police ethnography remains largely unwritten simply because it is unlikely the organization will be keen to reveal the ways this ‘ immense disorder ’ is constructed , for it is not in their nature to allow other individuals to create their classifications for them . |
| 11 | Not only is this shock experienced in fieldwork , while one learns the ways of a new culture , but it is experienced even more disconcertingly when one returns to one 's own culture … two different worlds have met in the same person . |
| 12 | Wambaugh , himself an ex-cop , describes the ways in which wildly autocratic and psychotic bosses set out to undermine their own ‘ front line troops on the streets ’ and describes a manual which mirrors the poster in the Northumbria police training department described above : |
| 13 | The ways in which individual councils arrange matters vary greatly , but normally a council has an agreement with a local firm of funeral directors for a funeral service . |
| 14 | This factsheet can only suggest some of the ways in which they may help you . |
| 15 | Lifetimes of commitment explores the ways in which political belief is developed and sustained throughout the course of a lifetime . |
| 16 | It looks at the reasons for dissatisfaction at the ways in which complaints are handled , highlighting an example of an elderly couple who had waited two years for someone to come round with a colour chart , prior to decorating the outside of their house . |
| 17 | From the opening piteous pleas with shaking hands as the dancers sink to the floor in the depths of their sorrow , the choreographic pattern of the overall rhythm is seen to swell in size and intensity as the music does until there comes the gleam of hope , a quiet moment when a child-like figure dances in wonder at the ways in which she can explore not only the space in which she moves , but also the ways in which she shapes each part of her body into an ever flowing design . |
| 18 | From the opening piteous pleas with shaking hands as the dancers sink to the floor in the depths of their sorrow , the choreographic pattern of the overall rhythm is seen to swell in size and intensity as the music does until there comes the gleam of hope , a quiet moment when a child-like figure dances in wonder at the ways in which she can explore not only the space in which she moves , but also the ways in which she shapes each part of her body into an ever flowing design . |
| 19 | The ways in which these four actions can be co-ordinated are extremely varied . |
| 20 | Choreographers can not in any way change the ways in which their dancers move . |
| 21 | A single ma can not divine fully the eternal and universal ideal , were he Shakespeare himself , ad therefore he can not prescribe either the ways or the aims for art . |
| 22 | Long ago , in the heyday of Cambridge English , Richards was making a similar distinction between the ‘ critical ’ and the ‘ technical ’ : ‘ All remarks as to the ways and means by which experiences arise or are brought about are technical , but critical remarks are about the values of experiences and the reasons for regarding them as valuable , or not valuable . ’ |
| 23 | Which would raise the further question whether this way , as practised by Olson , and by Williams in Paterson , is n't so unlike the ways of poetry as we have known it that to call their works ‘ poems ’ does n't merely confuse the whole issue . |
| 24 | The title alone is enough to show that this piece , if it avoids giving offence in the ways just glanced at , will offend none the less . |
| 25 | Such an event would represent the parting of the ways between Mr Gorbachev and the Slav masses , and would lead him almost inexorably down the road towards a full-scale assault on glasnost and civil liberties . |
| 26 | Leeds were again without their six-figure signing from Hull , Lee Crooks , and the Great Britain forward 's mysterious absences are likely to lead shortly to a parting of the ways . |
| 27 | The ways for women to escape or understand their circumstances are systematically disparaged . |
| 28 | The ways for women to escape or understand their circumstances are systematically disparaged . |
| 29 | ‘ I am fasting because I see no other way to express my protest against the ways in which our politicians brazenly keep up appearances and celebrate the fortieth anniversary of the state as their victory . |
| 30 | The formal rules and regimen are not the bases for the ways in which ordinary policemen perform their tasks , for very few rankers follow even a proportion of the management 's rules of conduct ( for example see Bittner 1967 ; Cain 1973 ; Chatterton 1976 , 1979 ; Eticson 1982 ; Holdaway 1980 , 1983 ; Manning 1977 , 1979 ; Punch 1979a ; Rubinstein 1973 ; Wilson 1968 ) . |