Example sentences of "it [is] [verb] the way " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's shocking the way we are being used by some clubs to further their own ends . |
| 2 | ‘ Yes , Great-gran , a great delight , because it 's paved the way for my divorce ; at least , my divorcing him . ’ |
| 3 | He says it 's amazing the way Steve throws the bike around . |
| 4 | I 've never seen the sort of breathtaking squalor I witnessed there but give them a day when their neighbourhood is shown to be worth the world running through it , gratefully accepting water and candy from them at the roadside , and it 's amazing the way mutual mistrust can disappear . |
| 5 | But it 's epitomises the way people view the modern footballer . |
| 6 | When she came back from a date with the Prince she would be full of sympathy for him uttering phrases like ‘ they work him too hard ’ or ‘ it 's appalling the way they push him around . ’ |
| 7 | I think it 's interesting the way that somebody like Muriel Gray tried to break with that when she co-presented The Tube with Jools Holland and Paula Yates . |
| 8 | That is a pity , perhaps , but it does not mean that everyday language is bad ; it is imply the way of things that language is not alive unless it is vernacular , because the adornments and abbreviations are the adornments and abbreviations of human thought . |
| 9 | Maria , 34 , said : ‘ I think it is shocking the way they have handled the whole affair . ’ |
| 10 | then make sure it is presented the way it is requested , even if it means rethinking the standard version you usually send out . |
| 11 | I should think it is working the way of bringing back the workhouse through having too much economy . ’ |
| 12 | It is to observe the way in which things have in practice turned out , an outcome not unconnected with the logic of those disciplines in supplying means to fulfil ends , rather than inquiring into ends themselves . |