Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun] [prep] the way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr George Carey called on parents to accept responsibility for the way their children grow up and give them moral guidance . |
| 2 | It would to find altruism in the way we could find but social cooperation or self-sacrifice or altruism could evolve by natural selection . |
| 3 | In the afternoon she had to trust Ruth on the way home . |
| 4 | It is a Baconian view , rather than an Einsteinian view ; students have a strong faith in the capacity of physics to provide explanations of the way the world works . |
| 5 | At the idea transfer level , machines have not yet demonstrated unequivocally the ability to process concepts in the way that human consciousness processes thought . |
| 6 | There is also the implication in the model that , if you successfully prevent entry up till the mature stage of the life-cycle , you will then , subject to the price elasticity of demand , be able to increase prices in the way illustrated in figure 5.3 . |
| 7 | The research aims to increase understanding of the ways in which business organisations cope with the uncertainties inherent in new product development and marketing . |
| 8 | Of all that hundred , only two are theoretically capable of producing the extremely intricate molecular structures that are needed to process energy in the way that is required . |
| 9 | He 's proved to be a very good buy and , to be honest , I was backing him to restrict Shearer in the way he did . ’ |
| 10 | Viewed in this way , attempts to delimit pragmatics in the ways explored above would make little sense ; pragmatics would not be a component or level of linguistic theory but a way of looking afresh at the data and methods of linguistics . |
| 11 | ( a ) It 's a great opportunity to pick holes in the way the class is conducted . |
| 12 | Now I , I think perhaps you 're worrying unduly , Jim in so far as , your , your men will continue to administer contracts in the way they do now . |
| 13 | He says that it 's unfair to inflict rules on the way performers play or behave ; it 's just more red tape . |
| 14 | She met him emerging from their tall block of apartments as she was returning from work on the Friday evening , having stopped to buy groceries on the way home , her mind flying ahead to Luke 's arrival and all that she planned to say to him now that she had made up her mind to end their affair . |
| 15 | Whereas loss of signal in coaxial cable makes runs of over one kilometre disproportionately expensive , because of the need to amplify signals on the way , the low loss of fibres makes long runs cheap ; but fibres need conversion hardware at each end . |
| 16 | The one thing they seem to be trying to do now is obfuscation and delay er and I think we ought to voice our concern and I hope the Council will agree to ask the Town Clerk to express concern at the way it 's being handled . |
| 17 | But we mostly seemed to buy toys on the way somewhere to do something else . |
| 18 | Throughout the series , use is made of tables , diagrams , and charts which are used to sensitize students to the way in which written texts are structured and also to support the numerous information transfer activities that ensure that meaning is never lost . |
| 19 | The ISE at the time of writing is attempting to implement changes in the way in which shares are floated . |
| 20 | If they are not , Mrs Thatcher will either have to reconsider her faith in the private sector always to do what she deems to be the right thing , or she will have to promote changes in the way in which the markets go about their business . |
| 21 | This court held that the board was required to give reasons for the way in which it had reached its award , and that in the absence of such reasons its award was prima facie irrational . |
| 22 | In collecting biographical material fans were asked to give accounts of the ways in which they had come to their present position in the terraces and to indicate on a sketch plan of the London Road End , past , and projected future locations . |
| 23 | Justices must learn new skills and learn them quickly , although no one expects them to give judgments in the way that a judge does . |
| 24 | Thus , in moral deliberation it is not necessarily a confusion of validity and truth to give weight to the way in which a decision is reached as well as or perhaps rather than to the content of the decision reached . |
| 25 | Every one of his books points to the same thing — unless we apply inhibition in our lives we will never be able to use intelligence in the way it was designed — to assist fulfilment . |
| 26 | It is , moreover , to draw attention to the way in which depictions that purport to portray individuals and which become associated with disintegration unleash narratives of global fragmentation . |
| 27 | A common mistake is to try to use lift on the way back instead of gliding on through it at a sensible speed . |
| 28 | During the development of modern phonetics in the present century it was for a long time hoped that scientific study of intonation would make it possible to state what the function of each different aspect of intonation was , and that foreign learners could then be taught rules to enable them to use intonation in the way that native speakers use it . |
| 29 | Now , based on the information that you 've just taken down you need to give thought to the way in which you compile those . |
| 30 | It is a pity some of those guys do not get up and learn to do commerce in the way that the rest of the world has to and put to advantage their expensive educations which are paid for out of general taxes . ’ |