Example sentences of "[conj] [be] [adv] [art] way " in BNC.

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1 NOW children that is hardly the way to treat England rugby skipper Will Carling !
2 His passport carries the word ‘ courtier ’ in the space set aside for occupation — a joke he came to regret when arriving at Darwin airport to be faced by a massive , bronzed Australian immigration official who looked down and told him ‘ that 's not the way you spell courier , mate . ’
3 Snoopy that 's not the way you pass things round , it is ?
4 You see , as far as they 're concerned that 's just the way it should be .
5 But it became clear that was not the way to hold our own against companies like Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Cola , or Mars on the confectionery side .
6 The hon. Member for Thurrock asked whether I did not know that if one took economic resources from one area and instilled them into others that was merely a way of upsetting the ordinary economic mechanism and that it did not result in any advances .
7 Fund raising , as we know , is here to stay and is now a way of life .
8 Hinduism is followed by 85 per cent of India 's population and is more a way of life than a religion .
9 Granting a monopoly was the easiest way for the monarch to encourage a trade or an industry , and was also a way to reward courtiers , who did not get salaries and hoped for substantial favours of just this sort .
10 When this picture was fully developed , even space was represented not as being qualitatively the way it is in vision , but as a structural isomorph of visual and tactile space .
11 He was a hard , practical man and yet , as is often the way , he indulged Andrew beyond all reason . ’
12 As was usually the way when the magnificent horses were offered for sale , they sold within the hour , leaving Seb to look around at the other animals and sample the pleasures offered to the fair-goers .
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