Example sentences of "[art] [adj] way a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the normal way a fraternity held an annual social function , after its festival mass , to collect the stock which was forthwith paid over to the churchwardens , less any sum retained for guild purposes . |
| 2 | In the normal way a ferret meeting a strange dog would become hostile , would hiss and spit . |
| 3 | Bit of both oh right , that 's a good idea , see you Gone the wrong way a post box got a letter to post |
| 4 | Faint starlight glimmered on the steep sloping rooftops , the milky way a net of luminosity beyond the black silhouetted chimneytops of the Bell o' the Brae . |
| 5 | We have been referred to several recent cases , of which Padfield v. Minister of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food is the best example , in which the courts have stressed that in the ordinary way a minister should give reasons , and if he gives none the court may infer that he had no good reasons . |
| 6 | The basic way a computer performs a geometric transformation relies on the Cartesian coordinate system , an invention of the French mathematician and philosopher René Descartes in the 17th century . |
| 7 | In a volatile market , an underwritten offer may be the only way a company can raise money . |
| 8 | ‘ The only way a girl like you gets on in this world is if she has something worth selling . |
| 9 | That was just about the only way a girl could get any equal action time , if her boyfriend was behind bars . ’ |
| 10 | Until 1857 in England , the only way a person could obtain civil divorce was through introducing a private act of Parliament . |
| 11 | He wanted more money to be spent on broadcasting and a separate Ministry to be set up to direct and coordinate all information policy : this was the only way a minister would be able to deal with all the criticisms levelled at the broadcasters . |
| 12 | In pondering these options , the key point to bear in mind is that the only way a society can get a rich future is by engineering a rich economy . |
| 13 | He had released the pressure of his emotions in the only way a society built on a stiff upper lip had left him — but his control over his real feelings had remained even then . |
| 14 | It does seem that the only way a housewife can get any recognition of the value of her work is to refuse or fail to do it . |
| 15 | It was the only way a man in his lonely and dangerous profession could live . |
| 16 | And the only way a goal scorer can regain his touch is to keep playing . |
| 17 | When a suitable opportunity occurs , a tutor should encourage his students to send in tests regularly for correction , pointing out that this is the only way a student has of finding out whether he really understands a subject . |
| 18 | People could speak English before there was universal literacy , and in the same way a child learns to speak long before he learns to read and write . |
| 19 | In the same way a temple which was situated at the top of a flight of steps might be shown on top of steps , though the number of steps on the coin would normally be fewer than in reality . |
| 20 | After flushing out food residues they may be brushed with hot alkali degreaser solution in the same way a chest freezer is tackled . |
| 21 | The tactile grooming experience also appears to be enjoyed in much the same way a dog likes to be scratched and stroked , and many predatory species forgo the chance of a quick meal in favour of a good grooming allowing the tiny cleaner to even clamber around inside their mouths without harm . |
| 22 | In just the same way a lot of your friends may choose not to believe in God … or Jesus … or angels … or evil spirits , and they may even try to convince you that they are right ! |
| 23 | And , of course , in the same way a student going on to university or polytechnic may immediately make use of some of the Wissenschaft , the actual knowledge , he has acquired at school . |
| 24 | In the same way a horse may want to touch a person that it likes . |
| 25 | I felt the same way a horse must have when confronted with a steam engine . |
| 26 | In a way , I suppose , it seems rather illogical to dismiss the value of the brochure altogether , for all types of customer , and at the same time suggest that the best way a customer can get the information s/he needs is to use a list of telephone numbers printed in the very brochure that is being dismissed . |
| 27 | The anatomy of Aristodikos and the Kritian boy alike is simplified from nature , not quite in the same way , but in both natural forms are perfectly understood ; only Aristodikos stands ( like Euthydikos 's kore ) in the formal way a statue has always stood , the other relaxed as a boy might actually stand . |
| 28 | In sections 4.8–4.12 a further set of qualifying concepts is presented which will help to identify in a systematic way a number of near relations of , and approximations to , more basic paradigmatic relations . |
| 29 | In all these bizarre religious groups , one is in fact trying to recreate in an imaginative way a world that 's rather different from us . |