Example sentences of "way [prep] [Wh det] [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 31 | And certainly in terms of the sec the sector approach , the one which erm Mr has produced is als almost coterminous with the with the way in which we wanted to look at it . |
| 32 | I was struck too by the way in which we started the programme by considering the dangers of the situation and there 's no doubt that that 's correct , but it is important to say , perhaps the most important thing is that the end of is n't in the Soviet Union and the break up of the Soviet Empire is an enormously positive event for all of us , for the citizens of the Soviet Union and for us in the West it gives the opportunity for much greater stability , real stability , peace and prosperity then ever existed under the old regime . |
| 33 | Indeed , Hateley is confident that the Scottish champions , buoyant after the way in which they disposed of English champions Leeds , can lick the continent 's cream . |
| 34 | Are you and sulphur together and looked at the the way in which they combined . |
| 35 | He turned his attention mainly to the northern forests , however ; he examined the local juries as to the way in which they had been kept , and held Forest Eyres in all the northern Forest counties . |
| 36 | The exact way in which they had failed to comply with the regulations is unclear ; a representative of the Education Authority told me that the school has re-opened on a ‘ technicality ’ , because the School Council had not been consulted before the closure ; people in Village told me that the Education Authority had not consulted anyone in the community before-hand , a bigger breach of the regulations . |
| 37 | The movies had created a false world and what was taken as the ultimate proof of that was the way in which they had failed to deal directly with real Americans and their dilemmas . |
| 38 | Warner Bros had once again profitably combined instruction and entertainment but as was so often the case it was the way in which they had used an actor that made the movie work in both respects . |
| 39 | Written documents could be and were easily forged whereas seals , crosses , medallions etc. were , in the way in which they had been developed and used in pre-Norman Britain , distinctive individual objects , which were less easily forged , more identifiable and more obviously linked to particular individuals . |
| 40 | Five bishops during the course of 1326 suffered such confiscation ; four were under similar threat for the way in which they had earlier filled their royal offices . |
| 41 | The financial rationale of the great companies had been the way in which they had enabled a generation of investors , most of whom were substantial , to become merchants by proxy . |
| 42 | Union members had turned out in such numbers because they were angry at the way in which they had to deliver services to the public without adequate resources . |
| 43 | A total of 350 visitors ( 97% of all respondents ) replied to question asking them about the way in which they had come to hear of the Library 's exhibitions . |
| 44 | But the way in which they affected interpretations of government policy of the quarter-century after the war certainly is of interest [ Artis and Lewis , 1981 ] . |
| 45 | In determining whether the defendants ought to be held liable under the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher , the learned judge considered that he ought to pay regard to ( i ) the quantities of combustible materials which the defendants brought onto the land ; ( ii ) the way in which they stored them ; and ( iii ) the character of the neighbourhood . |
| 46 | Boswell dismisses Elgin in a couple of paragraphs , partly though boredom , partly embarrassment at Johnson 's bad meal there ; but again — the invaluable gloss on Johnson 's version — ; Boswell liked the jutting arcades , which he called ‘ piazzas ’ ; he approved of ‘ such structures in a town , on account of their conveniency in wet weather ’ , and then reports Johnson 's dislike of them on account of the way in which they made ‘ the under story of a house very dark , which greatly over-balances the conveniency , when it is considered how small a part of the year it rains . |
| 47 | These oligarchies were , however , powerful and one of the most significant developments in English urban history at this time was the way in which they consolidated their control over town government . |
| 48 | Had it not been for the guillotine debate , for the way in which the Government put the pressure on , for the way in which they shepherded all the sheep , ministerial and other , through the Lobbies , we would not be here today . |
| 49 | Poor people do n't want a millionaire among them reminding them of some way in which they failed to make it . |
| 50 | Apart from calling Blum ‘ the most dangerous man in Indo-China ’ de Lattre complained of all the ‘ missionary young men ’ the US was sending to Vietnam , of the way in which they undermined the idea of the French Union and , as he obviously had time to read the reports as soon as they were sent , he objected strenuously and in person to US correspondents who did not share his more exalted view of France 's mission in Indo-China . |
| 51 | ‘ It would be impossible to say too much in praise of consultant Ernest Sinar and his colleagues and staff at Middlesbrough General Hospital for the way in which they cared for Jo and the family during the time she was there . ’ |
| 52 | From discussion and observation I was also delighted with the positive attitude of the staff on the Islands and the extremely conscientious and responsible way in which they carried out their work . |
| 53 | De Klerk 's response to the Harms report was effectively to exonerate Defence Minister Gen. Magnus Malan ( held by the Harms report to be " politically responsible " for the existence of the CCB ) from all responsibility for the activities of the discredited CCB , declaring that the report 's findings belonged to a past era , and there was " no reason to condemn the politicians in charge for the way in which they carried out their duties " . |
| 54 | This schematic characterization , however , does not do justice either to the manner in which they attempted to keep both poles in play at once , nor to the way in which they came to concede the impossibility of the theoretical projects which they undertook . |
| 55 | Herzen believed that the reputation of the courts suffered more from the way in which they transacted their business than from the verdicts at which they arrived . |
| 56 | In our interviews with teachers we were anxious to hear about the way in which they used the library and the project acquisitions and to establish their impressions of use made by their colleagues . |
| 57 | By the early years of this century , pawnbrokers — the first lenders to have been controlled in detail — were licensed , and the way in which they did their business was regulated . |
| 58 | ‘ I accept that the local authority and the social workers behaved in the way in which they did in error , but it is an important constitutional matter , and to mark the position , and so that local authorities shall not be under any misapprehension about their powers , I order that the costs of this application be paid by the local authority . |
| 59 | One day , as he was pushing his tinker 's cart round Bedford , he came across three or four poor women , sitting at a door in the sun , and was struck by the confident way in which they spoke of their salvation . |
| 60 | Does he agree that the nationalists in Mid-Ulster have given a warning to the House by the way in which they voted , with a colossal rise in the Sinn Fein vote and a colossal drop in the SDLP vote ? |