Example sentences of "the way [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Why endeavour to demystify the ‘ subtext ’ of a lager commercial when that supposed subtext could scarcely lie closer to the surface and is being forced on one 's attention the way a card-sharper forces a card ? |
| 2 | To confront the anger of God in the way the ancient Israelites dared to do , to face it as directed against ourselves and the society of which we are so much a part , is to escape the romantic pretence , the unrelieved jollity , or the easy , unthinking speech of so much that passes for Christian belief and worship . |
| 3 | It was time to gird up my loins , the way the black skirts and white garotte of the preacher 's collar had boomed when my grandmother-who-was-not had taken me by the hand to church so many times . |
| 4 | Looking at the way the international bodies like IEEE and X/Open Co Ltd have failed to define even a basic set of standards due to the competitive nature of the marketplace , AFUU believes an international body of GUI users is what is needed to get some momentum going , a global organisation that can represent user requirements to the GUI providers . |
| 5 | The way the long folds follow the lean of the body instead of falling vertically is a primitive touch ( offset by the charming observation of the skirt-edge caught on the lifted heel ) , but the treatment of the face seems to fix the work later than any we have so far looked at . |
| 6 | What they write can also make a difference to the way the legal plans for the curriculum are translated into classroom practice . |
| 7 | Few in industry or the institutions believe that the way the financial institutions operate has deprived firms of funds they should have had , or has constrained investment . |
| 8 | The structure is also disrupted by the way the regular phrase-lengths and pulse usual in popular songs are subverted . |
| 9 | Sahlins , for instance , discussed the way the Hawaiian Islanders experienced the visit of Captain Cook , placing it within their own received cultural categories to give the empirical happening of Cook 's arrival a meaning . |
| 10 | The final chapter , called ‘ Power in Focus ’ , attempts to look at the way the caring professions are continuing to develop . |
| 11 | So it is not only Earth 's distance from the Sun that is important for living things , but the way the solid parts of the Earth are spread across the globe . |
| 12 | Rose and Mary were for once showing a united front and refused to leave the kitchen because they did n't quite like the way the young women from the town who had come to be waitresses were poking and prying into their cupboards with their noses in the air . |
| 13 | This is the way the young sharedealers feel as they put out the bait and hook in the mugs . |
| 14 | You can see the way the underlined words , the adverb and adjectives , work to hold the reader still , locking their gaze upon the desk , which then seems to hypnotise both writer and reader . |
| 15 | The restoration has also revealed the way the archaeological elements were doctored to make them fit together as a sophisticated whole . |
| 16 | Rex was particularly taken with the Wurlitzer 600 Model jukebox , noting the elaborate grille of nickel-plated Art-Deco-type scrolls and the way the Lucite rods of the Model 24 had been reduced to straight green verticals in a manner he considered most pleasing . |
| 17 | But it was hard to scowl , she found , when her heart was suddenly skittering at the way the dark eyes were quite openly smiling as they continued to focus on her now lightly rising bosom . |
| 18 | If the General Secretary and the C E C are prepared to take the regions ' concerns into account and adjust or alter the way the new sections are organized then we will support . |
| 19 | I did n't really like the way the other boys treated him . |
| 20 | She looked at the deferential and contrite figure of the uniformed boatman on the quayside , the way the other boatmen tipped their caps to Lucenzo . |
| 21 | But there is a large contrast between the way the two mothers approach the problem . |
| 22 | The same coconut rite is a feature of other Sinhalese life-crisis ceremonials , e.g. that which marks a girl 's first menstruation ; the way the two halves of the coconut fall is taken as an augury for the future of the marriage . ) |
| 23 | Many communities had become sharply divided as a result of the way the penal laws had been enforced at the local level , and understandably Nonconformists retained a deep distrust of their Anglican neighbours who until recently had been the agents of their destruction . |
| 24 | It was obvious from the way the staring eyes blinked , both Pairs together , that they had not been expecting an answer . |
| 25 | Appreciation of the ways in which the various shapes are related enables the teacher to ask further leading questions when a suitable opening presents itself in a child 's play ( e.g. commenting on the way the flat slabs will go together to make a staircase of three steps — ‘ What would we need to make the next step ? ’ ) . |
| 26 | Here we have an example of three or four adjacent needles tucking for four rows at the same time , creating a very interesting raised surface fabric that is sometimes called ‘ locket and block ’ because of the way the oval sections of the pattern occur between the raised blocks . |
| 27 | It 's very New York that he is the choice for health guru ; it could n't happen anywhere else ; it 's the way the macrobiotic cookies crumble in this city that never sleeps . |
| 28 | ‘ We want to talk to Mr Stewart about the way the 67 men who were made redundant were treated by the company . |
| 29 | ‘ We want to talk to Mr Stewart about the way the 67 men who were made redundant were treated by the company . |
| 30 | Some equipment will be more suited to dry or wet sand , though it is sometimes interesting for the children to try using the funnel , for instance , with the wet sand , and comparison can be made of the way the different types of sand feel and behave . |