Example sentences of "in the way [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | There is something reflexive rather than rational , automatic rather than deliberative , circumscribed and autonomous rather than holistic about parsing a sentence such as ‘ She met John before Mary arrived at the airport ’ in the way we do ( with the pronoun she not referring to Mary but to some other female ) . |
2 | We are designers simply in the way we write our name on a piece of paper . |
3 | There is also much unnecessary hardship and fear and pain caused by man to animals in the way we breed them , market them , or eventually kill them in an abattoir . |
4 | But although God does have the role in Berkeley 's philosophy of accounting for the continued perceivability of real objects apart from our actual perception of them , it is not quite in the way we have just described . |
5 | It has a practical outworking in the way we live . |
6 | Although this may well be a valuable facility , it really forms no more than an appendage to the database , since we can not search a videodisc image for details within it in the way we can search text . |
7 | Yet , unfortunately this positive role so often gets lost in the way we have described earlier , with people just not understanding what is going on around them at a time when it could provide them with so much support . |
8 | ‘ We are not really crusaders , we are just human beings who want a quality of life in the way we have always done , ’ he said . |
9 | Although the feet do not stretch and point in the way we still care about in the West , the dancers do not just move from position to position ; they dance in a long poem of fluently musical movement that is classical ballet 's chief claim to fame . |
10 | Royal Thai food is not an entirely different cuisine , in the way we have home cooking and haute cuisine . |
11 | Except , of course , that it does endure , in our memories and in the way we see the world now . |
12 | On a board all these fine adjustments are made by our bodies in the way we stand . |
13 | When we are hurt by someone 's behaviour , all that is happening is that we are disappointed because they do not behave in the way we expect and the reality conflicts with our ideals . |
14 | We had pride in our uniforms , pride in the way we kept them . |
15 | Dogs raised in the presence of man behave in the way we expect of them . |
16 | But our dog does not understand the word ‘ sit ’ in the way we do any more than we understand the nuances of his barking in the way that he does . |
17 | Honesty is a character quality demonstrated in the way we deal with expense accounts , time cards and the extra money accidentally given us in change . |
18 | Owing large sums of money and not caring a damn , as Anthony Trollope recorded in The Way We Live Now ( 1875 ) , was one way of making sure there was no doubt about being one of the top people . |
19 | Witnessing is as much about showing people Christianity in the way we live as it is about explaining Christianity by the things that we say . |
20 | We can not decide to alter our psyches in the way we might decide not to wear high heels , just because they damage us and make us vulnerable . |
21 | And we do have similarities — not so much in the way we work but in the way we seen things . |
22 | And we do have similarities — not so much in the way we work but in the way we seen things . |
23 | Nevertheless it is indisputable that all the early church fathers believed in the Devil as the Evil One , although it was never found necessary to define him in the way we must do so about God . |
24 | We would like — wishful thinking perhaps — there still to be some apparent magic in the way we renew and transform our outward image . |
25 | So we recommend a one-year experiment in which the Office of Fair Trading gathers typical APRs in the way we have suggested , and publishes the tabulated results monthly as a press release . |
26 | Serious worries about this disappearing vital resource herald big changes in the way we pay for water supplies . |
27 | The emphasis of Paul is clear , we are to go for quality both in our performance and in the way we conduct ourselves in the workplace . |
28 | But committee chairman Sir Peter Barclay said : ‘ There is nothing to guarantee the Government will use the money in the way we want . ’ |
29 | Making changes in the way we use drugs , have sex or look after ourselves can be difficult . |
30 | That this is so comes out in the way we say , for example , ‘ There is a pain in my foot ’ as readily as ‘ I feel a pain in my foot ’ . |