Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] the [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I see it , these three attitudes are not different theories about what the brain is like , but three different views about the best way to study it . |
| 2 | ‘ Some neighbours of ours in Scotland had unnaturally cosmopolitan views about the best way to bring up their daughters and they had all been sent to stay with family friends in both Paris and Florence when they were about seventeen . |
| 3 | Flagstones for the Pennine Way |
| 4 | Deviance is thus used to describe behaviour that is outside the rules of society ; and these rules can be legal rules or social and moral rules , rules about the conventional way to dress or to speak to other people , for example . |
| 5 | Sometimes 1 would try to withhold my gift of words as the only way I could convey to him that he was withholding something I needed as badly as he needed my poetic ability . |
| 6 | Will my hon. Friend accept my thanks for the helpful way in which he dealt with my representations on this subject ? |
| 7 | If , for example , lean-burn engines are developed by Western manufacturers as the best way of cutting carbon dioxide emissions by the world 's rapidly increasing stock of vehicles , is the technology passed on free of charge to developing countries beginning a build-up to mass production from their own motor industries ? |
| 8 | ‘ And if possible try to make amends for the rude way you spoke to Lucy . |
| 9 | Then he caught glimpses of the freer way of life of his father 's bachelor brother and , as he explored and fished along the canal , got to know Dad Uzzell who remained a surrogate father-figure for the rest of Edward 's life . |
| 10 | What are the parameters of the tacky way ? |
| 11 | In many ways it is a natural gathering together and celebration of the teaching and learning which has taken place in the Religious Education class and all the aspects of the Catholic way of life of the school . |
| 12 | Across these moors today stride walkers of the Pennine Way , a route which passes close by Malham Tarn . |
| 13 | Wanting to protect him , she took charge of the conversation then , turning it to subjects that could have no personal connotations for him , subjects like the efficient way that the British government had persuaded the Americans to take over responsibility for Greece and its defence against Communism , which they could no longer afford , and their less effective attempts to involve the Americans in the Palestine troubles . |
| 14 | VHS hi-fi stereo sound , unlike VHS mono , is encoded at high speed along with the picture signals in the same way as Video 8 hi-fi , and hence has the same high standard of audio quality . |
| 15 | I have often thought that I should like to push through the House a simple single-clause Bill which would reduce death and injury at a stroke : it would be to insist that road traffic operated with signals in the same way as trains . |
| 16 | Make the other tentacles in the same way , varying the direction of the curve so that when assembled the tentacles branch out at different angles . |
| 17 | And that 's one stage closer to seeing animals in the same way . ’ |
| 18 | AND THAT 'S ONE STAGE CLOSER TO SEEING ANIMALS IN THE SAME WAY ’ |
| 19 | He fetched it without another word and watched her while she folded sheets of newspaper into firelighters in the thrifty way Gran had taught her . |
| 20 | For example , in schools where all the teachers followed guidelines in the same way , the impact was positive . |
| 21 | A list of keys in sequential order is fed into the program and the keys are transformed into addresses in the usual way . |
| 22 | This liberal model was articulated by one of the basic education tutors in the following way : ‘ To see the look of joy on someone 's face when they pass , when they 've never passed anything else in their lives , is wonderful … |
| 23 | ( Not all companies enforced these ties in the same way , however . |
| 24 | Set up under the Bonn Convention on migratory species , the agreement obliges its members — Belgium , Denmark , Finland , Germany , Greece , Ireland , Luxembourg , the Netherlands , Norway , Sweden and the UK — to protect bats in the various ways that bats can be protected : finding out where they are and conserving their habitats , studying them , controlling pesticides and stopping people from killing them . |
| 25 | There is a long running case before the House of Lords concerning the River Derwent at present about whether rights of way can be established on waterways in the same way as on land . |
| 26 | Here it is important to see that the traditional category of plural is not symmetrically applied to first Person in the way it is to third : we does not mean plural speakers in the same way that they means more than one third person entity ( Lyons , 1968 : 277 ) . |
| 27 | And do n't forget that if it 's a hotel based development he can go on letting his unsold units in the normal way . |
| 28 | As you indicated , it ought to be possible to let unsold units in the normal way , and even to let owners ' units on an agency basis . |
| 29 | The litre is split into smaller units in the usual way . |
| 30 | They sum up their view of the current state of research using predictive readability formulae in the following way : " Formulas do a job , but they leave a lot unexplained . " |