Example sentences of "the way it [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last summer he suggested that the appalling state of government finances called for a fundamental reassessment of the way it spends £250 billion a year of taxpayers ' money . |
| 2 | It suggests that Microsoft is engaging in anti-competitive behaviour in the way it sells DOS to hardware manufacturers , and in the way it uses its lead in the operating systems business to gain advantages with its apps software . |
| 3 | In retrospect , one can see far better than even he could see at the time how deeply the logic of the ‘ New Theology ’ , biblical and historical rather than scholastic , was bound to challenge the whole shape of the contemporary Church and the way it perceived orthodoxy . |
| 4 | The industry has done much to publicise its fees and the way it calculates charges but cost still remains a hurdle for many companies . |
| 5 | However , the way it reads COSE , the Unix people are ‘ not saying they are going to unify ’ and dismisses it as ‘ just a bunch of hype . ’ |
| 6 | However , the way it reads COSE the Unix people are ‘ not saying they are going to unify ’ and dismisses it as ‘ just a bunch of hype . ’ |
| 7 | After redesigning from scratch the way it processed orders from customers , it has cut delivery times from 8-12 weeks to ‘ days ’ even while using 35% fewer people to do the job . |
| 8 | It is clear that the organisation of the NHS — the way it delivers health care to the individual patient — also needs to be reformed … . |
| 9 | For him , myth is a concentrated image of the world , which is serious and effective notwithstanding the way it breaches causality by introducing miracles . |
| 10 | But in spite of the way it looked Martin had faked his own death — and done it damned successfully . |
| 11 | ‘ The initial attraction was advertising , ’ he says , ‘ and particularly the way it achieved communication in such a slick way . |
| 12 | the way it swigged litres of fresh water |
| 13 | Researchers should therefore give more attention to its negative effects on their conduct , especially in the way it requires researchers to make a number of pragmatic compromises which depart from the textbook portrayal of ideal research practice . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've always said so because of the problems it causes and the way it upsets people . |
| 15 | The Government is changing the way it manages health care , at the moment the Regional health Authorities oversee the work done by the smaller district health Authorities . |
| 16 | The framework I want to propose rests upon a regard for the importance of the active , interpreting self in social interaction ; for the way it perceives , makes sense of and works upon the actions of others and the situation in which it finds itself ; the way it pursues goals and tries to maximize its own ( often competing ) interests ; the way it pursues these things by combining or competing with other selves ; the way it adjusts to circumstances while still trying to fulfil or retrieve its own purposes — and so forth . |
| 17 | But he did n't just hate the railway as such ; he hated the way it flattered people with the illusion of progress . |
| 18 | Perhaps I can say , that what I 'd like to see is N C V O be much more corporate in the way it approaches things , erm , many of you will have seen many of our publications , but , you may not always realise they come from N C V O , sometimes it 's not always easy to see that , you have to search through and , not always find it , and we 've got many different images , so I think it 's important we er get a whole corporate image across . |
| 19 | This operator is infrequently used because it is indiscriminate in the way it joins tuples together . |
| 20 | BATTERED by low prices for oil and gas , Bow Valley Industries , an energy company based in Calgary , Alberta , with sales of C$142m ( $100m ) in 1992 , decided two years ago to rethink the way it did business . |
| 21 | The Hudson 's Bay Company would have had to change the way it did business completely if it wanted to convert its coastal settlements to which Indians came to sell their furs into bases from which fur trading parties went into the interior . |
| 22 | Mr Vaz said the report ‘ very clearly states that the Bank of England acted improperly in the way it conducted supervision of BCCI and puts forward very powerful arguments for compensation . ’ |
| 23 | In Gandhi 's view , its cardinal sin is the way it tolerates untouchability . |
| 24 | LABOUR launched a strong protest last night over the latest Conservative election broadcast , which invited Tory supporters to telephone Labour 's London headquarters to complain over the way it gave prominence to ‘ bad news ’ about Britain . |
| 25 | It is clearly an undergraduate text ; its use lies in the way it introduces discourse stylistics to a primarily conventional undergraduate group . |
| 26 | The drugs giant has been rocked by talk that it could be expelled from the FTSE because of the way it pays dividends . |
| 27 | So should a school like this one equip for the realities of unforgiveness of the world outside , or should it be much more generous in the way it shows forgiveness and can a school be organised so that it does actually reflect Christ 's teaching on forgiveness . |
| 28 | And the judge went on to criticise the RSPCA for the way it gathers evidence . |
| 29 | But the most striking anomaly of Labour 's plans is the way it treats millionaires living off unearned income . |
| 30 | The main aspect of the gens which interested Engels 's and Marx was it communal character , the ways it was internally undifferentiated and the way it held property as well as people and children in common . |