Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [prep] the way " in BNC.
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| 1 | A member of the Senior Management team , for instance , one of the faceless men , not known personally to the office girls , but whose importance was instinctively sensed from the way they looked , the way they behaved . |
| 2 | Kalm was very impressed by the stoves at Chelsea , ‘ all arranged in the way discribed in Dictionary ’ , and he learned from Miller that two orangeries in England had been burnt by tan overheating ( the fermenting bark of the oak and a by-product from the tanning industry ) . |
| 3 | It helps one bid rationally , and more coherently , for congenial responsibilities , and therefore to feel more powerful and less resigned about the way these are distributed . |
| 4 | A Member who has not yet made his maiden speech should not even be mentioned , far less attacked in the way that the hon. Gentleman is cynically going about it . |
| 5 | The three principal methods , all related to the way coins were made , are based on their die axis , weight and alloy . |
| 6 | So in practical terms of helping shoppers to make sound buying choices , the value of increased familiarity with APRs is somewhat curtailed by the way that people generally seem to equate it with the add-on cost of the credit . |
| 7 | So with you mentioning leather then it leads me onto another question erm was there much done in the way of leather work in the Caldmore area ? |
| 8 | This brings in the other theme of how money can corrupt which is obviously shown by the ways in which Pip 's attitude changes towards those around him by becoming condescending towards them and showing little respect and compassion . |
| 9 | They will be greatly perturbed by the way in which his Department is undermining the provisions of my Badgers Act 1991 by issuing licences to more than 600 fox hunts to enable them to dig up badger setts and unleash terriers into them . |
| 10 | I 'd , Dave Girt , Leeds City , I 'd be er pleased to hear from Mr Williamson that the hundred and forty five hectares for Greater York is actually to be contained within the York greenbelt , I I think Leeds has misunderstood that point , perhaps misled by the way each one was worded and we 've in previous days clarified that point so |
| 11 | The simile , ‘ parallels clean like trajectories from guns ’ also gives the impression of a rather hard , mechanical world but this is somewhat softened by the way the author compares the train 's movement to a ‘ comet through flame ’ , the ‘ flame . |
| 12 | No other man had so eloquently and constantly spoken of the way I had haunted him from the first moment he cast eyes on me . |
| 13 | Mr Faulds is better known for the way he says things ( ie very loudly indeed ) than for what he says . |
| 14 | The motion met with considerable opposition , but was passed when a large number of students left the room , apparently disgusted by the way the meeting was being run . |
| 15 | The SVR be highly congratulated for the way in which the emergency was dealt with . |
| 16 | For example , consumers have long railed against the way insurance companies are permitted to fix prices , allocate territories and to tie the provision of one service to the purchase of another . |
| 17 | The study of technology is important in its own right , but it also deepens our understanding of a society as a whole because it is intimately connected with the way in which people are organised and the structure of their economy . |
| 18 | Our voices are intimately connected with the way we live our lives . |
| 19 | The question of quantity used is obviously intimately related to the way a given individual finances his or her habit , a perspective which will be taken up in Chapter 7 . |
| 20 | was slowly inducted into the ways of the scientist — a particular type of scientist also — the ‘ pure ’ ’ researcher ’ . |
| 21 | We have already pointed to the way in which stratification may well inhibit the full development of talent in a society as a result of inequality of opportunity , which inevitably means that a stratified society is not utilising its talent resources fully . |
| 22 | It was Catherine again and McLeish was mildly irritated by the way she seemed to be ahead of him . |
| 23 | Many have already departed by the way of this terrible illness , no doubt others will follow before our present travail is over . |
| 24 | She felt both shocked and outrageously delighted by the way their two bodies moulded so perfectly together . |
| 25 | Television 's ‘ cumulative effects ’ are thus related to the ways in which it ‘ transmits reality and affects the imagery of politics and political figures ’ . |
| 26 | In the latter case external coercion is no longer internalized in the way it once was because of the permissive regimes of child-rearing and a cultural crisis affecting the superego , about which more will be said later . |
| 27 | This is perhaps best understood by the way both choreographers frequently show that certain steps can be danced sur les pointes but can also be jumped , e.g. petits changements or sissonnes piquées . |
| 28 | The power one can generate in karate is best exemplified by the way adepts smash their limbs through concrete , wood and various other materials . |
| 29 | Even as he asked the question , Seb realised that it no longer hurt in the way it had for a long time . |
| 30 | For him language circumscribes and limits truth which is best represented by the way a man lives . |