Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the way that " in BNC.

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1 It takes aim , compensating for the way that light bends as it passes from water to air and squirts a jet of drops , knocking the insect from its foothold so that it falls into the water and can be eaten .
2 A Member who has not yet made his maiden speech should not even be mentioned , far less attacked in the way that the hon. Gentleman is cynically going about it .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 Is there any evidence now of ( a ) and ( b ) occurring in the way that Boserup and Ruttan have indicated , and that they will continue into the future ?
6 And there are readers who have been deeply moved and impressed in the ways that we have described by books that can not be described as the best of anything .
7 This makes the counselling task even more difficult to interpret , but even within this complicated network of family systems , aspects of the wider , extended family unit will still be evident , perhaps comprising a number of separate systems which interact upon the way that the provision of care for older relatives is organized .
8 If the number of managerial jobs does not continue expanding , more and more men may become trapped in the way that female clerks already are .
9 Children related to him so much because they saw in him an adult who behaved in the way that they did .
10 But all of these are rather conspicuous by day and are difficult to hide in the way that spotlights can be masked by plants .
11 In 1944 , as we have seen , it was presumed that the best minds must be educated in the way that was traditional , by means of the grammar school curriculum , based originally on the classics and mathematics , gradually expanded , before the war , to include modern languages and experimental sciences .
12 You will remember that he thought that contextual features might be considered in the way that general phonetic features are considered : sometimes , but not always relevant , and specifiable to variable degrees of delicacy for different purposes ( 2.2 .
13 This is , in fact , highly realistic , relating to the way that families work .
14 It 's about collison of cultures in Britain since the end of the war , and it looks at the way that some artists of non-British origin have come to terms with modern art — or , rather , have made a personal art by calling on ways of expression that might have been absolutely native to them in other countries than this .
15 Chapters 6 and 7 have looked at the way that books can be evaluated , and at the sources for evaluation .
16 Has he looked at the way that they are used by individual police forces ?
17 Relatively little indication is given of the way that the school environment can be exploited for teaching .
18 I was much more at peace with myself and more accepting of the way that I looked .
19 It is not biased towards the way that the data may be accessed from storage media .
20 The Club 's President revealed along the way that he had played his first golf at St Andrew 's in 1886 , aged 3½ , when he had used a wooden putter .
21 Dalby was held to have been decided in the way that it was because a direction was needed whether or not there was an intervening act , i.e. the words in Dalby did not mean what they said .
22 The set-piece debates are usually more interesting , albeit that one gets the impression speakers are carefully sifted in the way that Tory Party conferences ensure that the boat is not rocked too violently .
23 Before we leave this topic , with some doubtless well-received witticisms about the American ateliers that are called Schools of Creative Writing , let us ask ourselves how an artistic tradition is transmitted from generation to generation in England , if it is not transmitted in the way that Pound took for granted .
24 Pride , envy , selfishness , resentment , kindness , self-respect , good-heartedness , ambition , every quality of character there is will be revealed in the way that someone talks — about their mother , say , their colleagues or their wife .
25 Private property and freedom are not uniquely connected in the way that Hayek suggests , therefore , and if private property is to be justified in terms of freedom some further argument is required that the dispersal theory does not supply .
26 Distance and size , says Berkeley , are seen in the way that ‘ we see shame or anger in the looks of a man ’ ; though invisible themselves , these feelings are ‘ let in by the eye along with colours and alteration of countenance , which are the immediate objects of vision ’ .
27 The operation of such a price-fixing agreement can be seen in the way that the price of oil has been fixed by the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries ( OPEC ) cartel .
28 Indeed the way that things are going can already be seen in the way that the company is letting its largest customers muck about with the internals of its operation with its Concert network management system .
29 An interesting example of this can be seen in the way that people with different disabilities view educational integration .
30 You should , though , make it clear at all times that you object to the way that you have been treated .
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