Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] [verb] [art] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile she has given the impression that , by looking to the earliest community of women and men , she has found a way for women to be Christian . |
| 2 | She tries to find a way through and because she 's patient and understanding she gets there . |
| 3 | Her husband and colleague Dr E.A. Maury writes , ‘ She continues to show the way for those who have been willing to recognise her and will long do so for those who seek a new orientation for their moral and physical well-being ’ . |
| 4 | Because his refusal to be sincere about his feelings toward her leads her further away from her own values , she begins to resent the way in which he constantly gives her the linguistic slip : ‘ Concepts which still meant much to her , by which she had once lived , were swerved aside with a smart epigram , a pun , a quotation , a dirty story ’ ( 170 ) . |
| 5 | Then , aside to me , she said : ‘ She 's got a way with policemen , ’ as if confiding some dark secret . |
| 6 | First , he has devised a way of buying the ground at less than half price . |
| 7 | Firstly , just by supplying paradigm instances of high and low art , he has gone no way towards showing that there is not an area of genuine indeterminacy in between . |
| 8 | Now , it would appear , he has gone the way of all satirists , tempted beyond all self-control by the hope of a TV adaptation starring David Jason , if he is lucky , or Keith Barron , if he is not . |
| 9 | There is even an echo of the testing time of his twelfth year in the fourth book in the sequence , The Betrayer , when he has to find a way of helping one of the Confederates , involved in a misguided conspiracy against the young Emperor , without being disloyal to his ruler . |
| 10 | Moreover the interpreter of a text has to make a decision on the relative importance of the different elements in a work , and he has to find a way of relating these elements to one another . |
| 11 | Once a golden brown staple , crisp on the outside and creamy within , it has gone the way of all flesh . |
| 12 | It is a cliche to say that it has become a way of life , and that the stone-throwing is only the public , propaganda face of a whole political , social , economic and psychological transformation — the Palestinians ' own perestroika — which both sustains the Intifada and lays the groundwork for the eventual transition to statehood . |
| 13 | However , the shame is that for some health service insiders it has become a way of life . |
| 14 | It has become a way of life for you . |
| 15 | ‘ It has become a way of life for me here — but it must be unsettling to the players . |
| 16 | ‘ I have been leading scorer at Boro for five out of the last seven seasons — but it has become a way of life to be talked about as the player who is leaving or out of the team . |
| 17 | The WYSIWYG approach of desktop publishing certainly is n't everyone 's cup of tea , most typesetting is still code driven , but for composition systems it has changed the way we work beyond all recognition . |
| 18 | It ca n't become a pop show , it has to stay the way it is . |
| 19 | It has to find a way to appeal to younger drivers . |
| 20 | In which case it has to find a way of lowering expectations of the public good , limiting damage by the pursuit of private interest , building a different notion of good citizenship and public virtue out of that private interest . |
| 21 | So , if the green lacewing larva is to enjoy a decent meal of woolly alder aphids , it has to find a way of avoiding being attacked by the ants . |
| 22 | Our civilization has at least this to its credit , he wrote , that it has found a way of rounding up this dishonest crap and incarcerating it in morgues , in fortified places with guards and alarm bells and the rest , thus keeping it off the streets , protecting decent citizens , and now , he wrote , there are even moves afoot to repel intruders by making them pay hard cash to enter these fortified places . |
| 23 | Now , one group working at DESY believes it has found a way to differentiate the effects of the gluon from those of the quarks produced in electron-positron collisions . |
| 24 | This reinforces the likelihood that he or she will smack the child again in similar circumstances , so that it tends to become a way of life . |
| 25 | It seems to ignore the way in which existing fares are calculated' including as they do an element of ‘ taper ’ to avoid long journeys made up of several different sectors ‘ bolted together ’ from becoming too high : again something which would be difficult to replicate in a situation where the railways were operated by numerous regional franchises . |
| 26 | The reason the coding metaphor has such currency in contemporary talk about perception is that it seems to suggest a way in which very simple and apparently homogenous elements such as nerve impulses can generate the richness and variety of consciousness . |
| 27 | Lin will première the work in San Diego , California , which has a large Chinese population , and if it is successful there he hopes to find a way to perform it in Taiwan . |
| 28 | This does not gainsay the fundamental proposition that it is every citizen 's duty to retain self-control — at least to the extent of not violating other people 's interests — but it does open the way to a manslaughter verdict and to sentences which are rarely longer than eight years ' imprisonment ( less than half as long as the time served by many convicted of murder ) and may be considerably shorter . |
| 29 | It may well be that such an approach is incommensurate with the difficulties presented by international disagreements and internal conflicts but it does suggest a way of looking at law which enhances its potential as an instrument for peace . |
| 30 | This development has its opponents , but it does provide a way in which mathematics can become more meaningful to some of the children studying it . |