Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [prep] [art] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | The photo stood in the doorway , placed rather in the way children put dolls in a window to let them look out . |
| 2 | Had the Wessex novels been written earlier , when places off the beaten track were inaccessible , or nearer our own time , when we have become sated with effortless mobility , ‘ Wessex ’ might not have caught on in the way that it did . |
| 3 | On the face of it section 6 of the 1980 Act has added little in the way of parental rights to section 76 of the 1944 Act . |
| 4 | Clearly Helen has looked for ‘ explanations ’ to help her deal with such a painful experience , and the one she seems to have come up with is that she was picked on for the way she looks . |
| 5 | Building extends the grammar , by correlation ; but it can also be looked on as a way of extending the vocabulary of the learner . |
| 6 | Her education had not included much in the way of ballroom-dancing . |
| 7 | I do n't think he conceived ‘ Ziggy Stardust ’ as a concept album , but the songs slotted together in a way that it became a concept , and the way he presented it on stage , how he wanted to look , how the boy 's costumes looked ( facsimiles of his — though his were patterned and theirs were simple ) meant that he 'd breathe life into a concept hero . |
| 8 | Toby , on the other hand , just looked in on the way to the boarding annexe , and popped straight out again , while Corbett Farraday had no particular fear of the boys — were n't they all boys together at Burleigh ? and stayed in the Staff Common Room for no other reason than to work himself up to an approach to Penny . |
| 9 | He added : ‘ Although parents can not be blamed totally for the way children end up , we are able to shape their behaviour and offer them moral guidance . |
| 10 | SCIENTISTS from the General Electric Company in New York have come up with a way of measuring how much charge is left in a lead-acid battery . |
| 11 | The research , entirely funded by a charity , Quest for a Test for Cancer , has come up with a way of determining exactly how much stain the DNA has taken up . |
| 12 | In recent times it was feared that Venice was sinking , but modern engineering has come up with a way of pumping water from the mainland to boost the underground water base on which the city rests . |
| 13 | So she 's come up with a way of trying to protect animals in Gloucestershire , Worcestershire and Herefordshire . |
| 14 | At the end of every chapter there 's a review of what you 've just learned and a few questions to check that it 's really sunk in ( and a mini glossary of any new terms/jargon you may have picked up on the way . |
| 15 | A year later , she finished up in hospital , sick and disillusioned , rejected by the so-called friends she had picked up along the way . |
| 16 | and my comment was that before getting too sort of wound up about the way we get public |
| 17 | probably , a bar with nuts and raisins called raisin natural bar I 'm sorry about loo loosing the keys mum , mum tt the noise has gone the noise has come back by the way |
| 18 | As the cockpit is likely to be used a lot while sailing in the trades and while in harbour , it seems a pity that the tiller should take up such a large amount of space , although when at rest it can be lifted out of the way . |
| 19 | It was also found that while the aircraft was in service a modification to the door mechanism had been carried out in a way which did not comply with the appropriate service bulletin . |
| 20 | There is a genuine exchange , a genuine sale and a genuine investment company , the whole transaction being carried out in a way which the Act , in express terms , provides for . |
| 21 | There is no doubt that reform of the common agricultural policy must be carried out in a way which ensures that there is no discrimination against farmers in the United Kingdom . |
| 22 | For instance , the basic activity in ( 2 ) is painting the general ; but the sentence tells us more specifically that it is an activity carried out in a way that envisages the general as seated . |
| 23 | Now , I admit that it ca n't be , it ca n't have come about in the way that Freud says . |
| 24 | Passing sentence , Mr Justice Latham said : ‘ Adolescent emotions boiled over in a way that older people would have been able to cope with . ’ |
| 25 | We have so far said little about the way the Stress Syndrome spills over into teachers ' personal relationships out of school . |
| 26 | Gohlke has written thoughtfully about the way in which photographs can appear to embrace features of the past , the present and the future : " Projecting oneself into the future so that one can view the present with more apparent dispassion , and projecting an image of the past onto the future in order to take the measure of the present are different strategies . |
| 27 | Other strings have anything from seven to many hundreds of micro-fibres which are then twisted together in a way similar to natural gut . |
| 28 | Denmark had in Cnut 's day only recently been converted to Christianity , and these authors are unlikely to have possessed much in the way of early documentary material , although like English historians they fairly clearly knew oral traditions which need not always have been groundless . |
| 29 | By 1567 Thurland and the Germans were able to inform the Crown that at last they had manufactured copper on a commercial scale and that their prospecting had revealed much in the way of exploitable minerals . |
| 30 | The way in which the process of understanding works can be seen only in the way we produce a response or description of some kind . |