Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [be] [art] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | A technique is the way a particular action is carried out . |
| 2 | But the other way in which our Party has a future is the way in which I would like to see it have a future . |
| 3 | Predictions have value of course because these are things which affect climate and affect people 's lives , but also making a prediction is a way of trying to verify whether the understanding that we think we have about how the system works can actually be translated into equations which are put on a computer , and then when you let this go it in fact s does indeed do what the real world does . |
| 4 | A question is a way of defining what we do not know . |
| 5 | The point of these examples is that using Creole to refuse a request is a way of building a particular meaning into the refusal . |
| 6 | A ratio is a way of expressing the relationship of one figure to another , for example : |
| 7 | Indeed with involuntary memory as the creative principle , one might almost dare to say that the opposition between poetry and the analytical is removed , because perhaps one of Proust 's greatest achievements as a novelist is the way in which he reveals poetry and imaginative perception as the most appropriate and authentic means by which our human experience can be both understood and recreated for ourselves and for others . |
| 8 | I think part of the thing about stress is n't so much whether it 's a chemical effect , but it 's a having a cigarette is a way of creating a wee break if you 're if you 're busy and as a , that can be really difficult for women to do , actually demand a bit of time for themselves . |
| 9 | Ralph Linton states that ‘ The culture of a society is the way of life of its members ; the collection of ideas and habits which they learn , share and transmit from generation to generation ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ Changing a man is a way women can show their power . |
| 11 | Making a will is a way of making life easier for them . |
| 12 | A style is a way of writing — that is what the word means . |
| 13 | The marriage of a son was a way of adding to a family 's wealth , and a woman 's role was to display this wealth through her clothes , manner and life style . |
| 14 | My treatment of intonation is based on the belief that foreign learners of English at advanced levels who may use this course should be given training to make them better able to recognise and copy English intonation ; the only really efficient way to learn to use the intonation of a language is the way a child acquires the intonation of its first language , and the training referred to above should help the adult learner of English to acquire English intonation in a similar ( though much slower ) way — through listening to and talking to English speakers . |
| 15 | The addition of scent to a rose is the way we recognise it as a true rose . |
| 16 | A curiosity is the way in which the aqueduct channel by which , presumably , it was supplied with water , is diverted round the east end of the bath-house . |
| 17 | At present , everything that Hewlett-Packard is doing looks right : it has won itself a reputation of taking better care of its customers , an example being the way it is not forcing its MPE users to move to Unix , instead letting them migrate at their own pace . |
| 18 | An example was the way that community groups with apparently widely different aims and interests could be brought together to learn from each other . |