Example sentences of "[conj] [vb pp] [prep] the way " in BNC.

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1 But none of these principles could have been exploited or pursued in the ways in which they were had there not been tacit approval and support on the part of the state .
2 So far in Freud 's argument we are only concerned with a descriptive statement , albeit one with many theoretical overtones , but there is at this point no assertion about the genesis of this hostility , or about the degree to which it is innate , or produced by the way humans are reared , or by the interaction of the two .
3 The advantages of a DIP system are that images — unlike paper documents — do not have to be physically moved around the office , they occupy much less storage space , and they can not be lost , misfiled or damaged in the way that paper can .
4 Typically , tradition weighs heavily on us : curriculums are organised and taught in the way that we have always done it .
5 They 're all friendly , and fascinated by the way our dinghies plane past in clouds of spray in the strong afternoon winds .
6 This in turn makes the parents feel unhappy about being a burden , and not being loved and respected in the way they had expected .
7 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 .
8 As with the official curriculum , much has been researched and written on the ways teacher-pupil interaction can be different for boys than for girls , and a brief initial summary will suffice .
9 Furthermore , many women teachers indicated that they had difficulty gaining promotion within the school ( see Burgess ? 1988a ) and talked about the ways in which they experienced sexism and oppression in their day to day work .
10 On appeal , this assumption could be shown to be false and the village ends up with a significant new development site ; it is this type of appeal decision which leaves the layman surprised and frustrated at the way in which the system operates .
11 Lucy sat , her hand over her eyes , and thought about the way her life was heading .
12 You are popular , successful , attractive and contented with the way your life 's developing .
13 The actors made the play very exciting and left everybody astounded and intrigued with the way they performed and to add to this the stage really set the scene with the back drops and props .
14 Maria hesitated , self-consciously aware of the stupidity of resistance now when their relationship was a fait accompli and irreversible , but disturbed by the way he was regarding her .
15 Any natural selection involves differential reproductive success that is nonfortuitous because determined by the way variant organisms are interacting with an environment that is causally sensitive to those particular physical differences in the organisms .
16 For example , a child with language which is less advanced than the language of other children of that age would be regarded as having delayed language ; in contrast , children whose language stands out because it is deficient when compared with the way in which they perform on other social and intellectual tasks may be regarded as having a language deficit .
17 As compared with the way in which computing is usually taken out of the hands of machinists when CNC machine tools are introduced , consideration was given in the optical company to the idea of persuading the operators who cut the surfaces of the lenses to do some of their own computing , and even to the idea of installing computing facilities in the surfacing room itself .
18 Nevertheless , when asked about the way the societies sold insurance , 49 per cent of customers said they trusted their society to sell them only those products and services which were in the customers ' best interests .
19 ‘ Her example proves the nobility of soul the native can possess when tutored in the ways of godliness and truth .
20 I enjoyed reading this book and recommend it to anyone with an interest in the way chemistry really develops , as opposed to the way it is described in the research literature .
21 Do you see that as the difference between the way that Americans view philanthropy in the arts as opposed to the way the English view it ?
22 As Goffman puts it ( 1981 : 128 ) , " A change in footing implies a change in the alignment we take up to ourselves and the others present as expressed in the way we manage the production or reception of an utterance .
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