Example sentences of "our [adj] way [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once you start making the slight adjustment necessary to make our normal way of eating healthier , you will automatically be on your way to weight control . |
| 2 | We rarely challenge our habitual way of doing something . |
| 3 | In transactional analysis ( TA ) it is assumed that our habitual ways of feeling and behaving largely stem from the way we feel about ourselves in relation to other people . |
| 4 | They rebuke and correct us , calling us to break with our old way of life . |
| 5 | The Ego is constantly chattering about its fears , worries and doubts , cluttering up our head with thoughts that go nowhere — just in case we decide to think for ourselves , to question , to explore new possibilities , to feel our suppressed emotions , to reach beyond our old ways of being , to develop a new vision . |
| 6 | And please help us today as we go our different ways to work , to school , to nursery . |
| 7 | But he said Roman Catholics and Anglicans ‘ have to accept , for the moment , our different ways of reaching decisions ’ . |
| 8 | It is not nearly as important to identify our wrong ways of dealing with conflict as it is to learn how to resolve them . |
| 9 | As for what may be called , although not very properly , the conflict with our ordinary ways of speaking , in which events , facts , and things are mentioned as causes or conditions , and also other items ( Ayer , 1972 , p. 133 ) , the principal explanation is that we are in accord with the rooted practice of taking the whole for the part . |
| 10 | Most people nowadays would agree that a good pub is one of our best traditions and a vital and distinctive ingredient of our national way of life . |
| 11 | ‘ The freedom and way of life we have been accustomed to enjoy for so long will vanish ’ , Kenneth Oxford , Chief Constable of Merseyside , prophesied in 1977 ; ‘ what we are experiencing is not a passing phenomenon but a continuing process of change in our way of life … our customary ways of behaving and our traditional values are being radically modified . ’ |
| 12 | At the Legation we were welcomed back by the servants and reverted happily to our accustomed way of life . |
| 13 | What I mean by tradition involves all those habitual actions , habits and customs , from the most significant religious rite to our conventional way of greeting a stranger , which represent the blood kinship of ‘ the same people living in the same place ’ . |
| 14 | Thus , as Neugebauer has succinctly remarked , our present way of dividing up the day into hours , minutes , and seconds ‘ is the result of a Hellenistic modification of an Egyptian practice combined with Babylonian numerical procedures ’ . |
| 15 | In our near-sighted way of looking at the stratigraphical column , we tend to forget that these recent events , if considered on the normal geological time-scale , were virtually instantaneous and certainly catastrophic . |
| 16 | We can plod our weary way through the days , sticking to a monotonous job and loveless relationships , watching TV every evening , filling our days with meaningless trivia — leading lives of ‘ quiet desperation ’ in Thoreau 's words . |
| 17 | Legs rose and fell as we made our undulatory way like a giant centipede . |
| 18 | The real world of ‘ scientism ’ which could be characterised in terms having nothing to do with our particular ways of responding to it is a myth , with which it is quite inept to confuse the real ‘ real world ’ . |
| 19 | I sighed heavily as I looked first at one and then at the other while we made our slow way down the main street , past Woolworth and the traffic lights . |
| 20 | The splendid packed lunch arranged for me by Major Hal that morning plus the thermos of American coffee made a welcome lunch as ‘ Deemy ’ and I winged our solitary way over the continuous stretches of grasslands , lakes and rivers of Siberia to make a smooth landing at the Russian Air Force base at Irkutsk early that evening . |
| 21 | We all made our own way up the stone steps to the guardian 's hut , a recommended viewing point for the classic view over Machu Picchu 's maze of empty plazas , chambers , alleyways , and staircases carved out of solid rock . |
| 22 | We renounce our own way of living and thinking to live the life of obedient faith — just as Jesus lived on earth . |
| 23 | The catalogue might be extended almost indefinitely , but the point that I want to emphasize is that , for the most part , these distinctive features of our own way of life are not of our own making . |
| 24 | We have our own ways of showing respect . |
| 25 | The major problem being , if one of our children gets out of hand , one our own children , we 've got our own ways of dealing with it . |
| 26 | Indeed , I wonder whether this could be the very centrepiece of our new way of thinking . ’ |
| 27 | In spite of the garden we took some time to get accustomed to our new way of living . |
| 28 | Wittgenstein 's discussion is certainly not peppered with references to narrow-front migration , smoke-bathing , or Skinner boxes , ( nor is that of Regan , Singer , Frey , or Midgley herself , come to that ) , since his concern is to clarify the implications of our everyday ways of attributing psychological concepts like hope , fear , belief , understanding , and so on . |
| 29 | Such an explosion of factionalism and utter selfishness was shocking to all who lived through it , and seemed to threaten our whole way of life . |
| 30 | It is a very simple issue but vastly important for our whole way of life is based upon acceptance of the rule of law . ’ |