Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] in [art] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somehow I ca n't see it catching on in the way Play-Doh did . |
| 2 | Had the Wessex novels been written earlier , when places off the beaten track were inaccessible , or nearer our own time , when we have become sated with effortless mobility , ‘ Wessex ’ might not have caught on in the way that it did . |
| 3 | But the wee winger from Fife bounced back in a way that says much for the survivalist instincts in the human spirit . |
| 4 | It was also found that while the aircraft was in service a modification to the door mechanism had been carried out in a way which did not comply with the appropriate service bulletin . |
| 5 | There is a genuine exchange , a genuine sale and a genuine investment company , the whole transaction being carried out in a way which the Act , in express terms , provides for . |
| 6 | There is no doubt that reform of the common agricultural policy must be carried out in a way which ensures that there is no discrimination against farmers in the United Kingdom . |
| 7 | For instance , the basic activity in ( 2 ) is painting the general ; but the sentence tells us more specifically that it is an activity carried out in a way that envisages the general as seated . |
| 8 | Now , I admit that it ca n't be , it ca n't have come about in the way that Freud says . |
| 9 | Passing sentence , Mr Justice Latham said : ‘ Adolescent emotions boiled over in a way that older people would have been able to cope with . ’ |
| 10 | You can not expect to be asked the questions exactly as they appear here and you will be badly thrown if you have programmed yourself with exact responses to very particular questions which do not crop up in the way you had anticipated . |
| 11 | But a more novel objection came from Dr Leonard Wilson , when Bishop of Birmingham , and who opened a school without wearing gaiters as a form of protest because he believed : ‘ Bishops should not dress up in the way of the decadent eighteenth century . ’ |
| 12 | Unfortunately the Act has not turned out in the way that its progenitors hoped . |
| 13 | I think most of the plots have been written , and it a genre that has been written out in the way that the Western was written out . |
| 14 | So what was going on in the way of entertainments and things like that when you came to ? |
| 15 | Best of all is Donald Maxwell , marvellously sinister as the hunchback Prime Minister , Leander , sidling on in a way to chill the blood . |
| 16 | He makes it clear in his Report that these ‘ prisoner contracts ’ should not be drawn up in a way which would give the prisoner private rights ( that is the right to damages ) . |
| 17 | It shows up in the way our best run companies now organize their work , regard their workers , design their enterprises . |
| 18 | ‘ Speaking the truth in love , we are to grow up in every way into him who is the Head , into Christ from whom the whole body , joined and knit together by every joint with which it is supplied , when each part is working properly , makes bodily growth and upbuilds itself in love ’ ( Eph. 4.15–16 ) . |
| 19 | If the results did not always work out in the way intended , the blame for the failings of the criminal justice system can not be attributed to any lack of zeal to legislate . |
| 20 | For no apparent reason it was hanging on my head like lank seaweed ; I could n't make it puff out in a way that hid my ears properly . |
| 21 | The idea that Athens actually remitted all tribute that year can be dismissed — there is no other good evidence for an easing up in the way the empire was run . |
| 22 | But then , having exhausted his recollections of the circumstances of his writing the paper , he switched to more personal matters and enquired carefully how I was getting on in a way that made me reel that my mission had been worthwhile and that I had by no means wasted his morning . |
| 23 | Thus redness , rather than merely looking red , is basic but its being there is bound up in a way which is manifest from the start with how it looks to us . |
| 24 | It was n't the first time her pupil had mentioned Rossmayne and each time the girl 's face had lit up in a way which made the nun catch her breath . |
| 25 | I do n't think this was the case , though , as many women did conform and those who stuck out in the way of Madeline Vesey Neroni and Mrs. Proudie were few and far between — few dared to be too independent or to try and think for themselves . |
| 26 | You know , erm , you know what sort of gross salary and you know and there was , you were holding back in a way erm tt and why you did n't wan na discuss your hobbies you know where you were losing it |
| 27 | ‘ Imagine me in one of those , ’ she said , and laughter bubbled out in the way that normally set the whole bus tour laughing with her . |
| 28 | For example with education , it 'll be a terrible thing for education if the middle classes continue to contract out in the way that they are so we have a divorced system of independent education quite separate from the state system . |
| 29 | The tendency for L to find its own maximum value leads to interesting developments if the initial density distribution is set up in a way that makes it initially larger than this maximum . |
| 30 | Instead of saying that in the absence of a community there can be no rules , we say that what is wrong with the solipsist 's rules is that they can not be set up in the way he pretends , by using a private experience as a sample . |