Example sentences of "it [verb] the way " in BNC.

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1 How did it affect the way the story about the fight is told , for example , or the uses to which the unofficial communique was put ?
2 If that information became available to the police officer investigating the assault , would it affect the way in which he pursued the investigation ?
3 I did n't mean it to go the way it did .
4 While all these points are important , the last-named is crucial as it influences the way in which new development is linked to the existing village core .
5 It points the way to new directions for the late 1980s and 1990s .
6 By capturing , albeit in a somewhat crude form , what has previously been transient and ephemeral it points the way to a means whereby artistic judgment itself might be judged .
7 The Comet , brought into service in 1952 , was the first commercial jet and although design faults made its supremacy short , it paved the way for faster and faster travel .
8 Although 618 remained a prototype , it paved the way for rebuilding the remaining railcoaches as one-man cars , including this one as OMO car 13. ( left )
9 The Kingman model of language was greeted with anger by some teachers who looked back nostalgically to the 1960s , but it paved the way for a more judicious approach to the teaching of English .
10 It paved the way for a national socialism which was to play an important — if frequently neglected — part in the evolution of British Labour politics .
11 Interestingly , although neoclassicism allowed individual differences to influence punishments on the grounds of justice , in doing so it paved the way for the later , positivist conception of the causes and treatment of crime .
12 With the Mercedes contingent out of the race , it paved the way for Mike Hawthorn ( GB ) and Ivor Bueb ( GB ) to go on and win in their Jaguar .
13 It paved the way for expanded West German trade with the Eastern bloc and for greater personal links between the two .
14 It drew together several countries in a common body which controlled important areas of the economy ; it was a sign of Franco-German rapprochement and it paved the way for the full removal of post-war industrial controls on West Germany by the Western allies ; it succeeded in overcoming doubt and opposition from politicians and industrialists ; and it created a workable machinery .
15 It led the way in providing computers to the grubby masses , only to show the opposition what money could be made in this way .
16 It paves the way for George Bush to speak of a ‘ new world order ’ , while simultaneously launching the largest military operation since World War II to preserve the ‘ old world order ’ that has served he and his colleagues so well for so long .
17 If both you and the other person can find something to laugh about together it paves the way for a harmonious transaction .
18 It paves the way for the first national lottery in the UK since 1826 .
19 It transformed the way that the English dealt with the world outside Europe ; even though Charles 's son came back to the throne as Charles II in 1660 , the Republic changed the direction of English imperial policy and set a pattern followed at least until the death in 1714 of the last direct descendant of Charles I to sit on the throne .
20 A comparison with wet nursing shows up certain similarities , not least because it highlights the way in which fashion , prejudice , and moral attitudes dictate what are the perceived duties of motherhood .
21 One attractive aspect of this theory is that it highlights the way in which formal instruction can inhibit learning by not allowing sufficient scope for self-expression and self-development — alienation following submission to being taught rather than learning how to learn .
22 It highlights the way nature uses the same raw materials as man and carries out equally complex chemical reactions , night and day .
23 See if it looks the way it sounds .
24 No one else notices , but it alters the way you go about things .
25 That is , whatever it is that is inherited may cause crime because it alters the way in which the person who inherits it is treated by others .
26 But I suppose we could not see it snowballing the way that it has .
27 You can take your guitar to a guitar shop and anyone can re-fret it , but to get it done the way you want it is very , very important .
28 It prepared the way for the men who were to prepare the way for the Council .
29 This project has been described in some detail for it exemplifies the way social workers may need to adapt their skills , to work with colleagues from other disciplines , and also to work at one remove from the client , in sustaining an informal care network , or a family network .
30 Smashing milk bottles is a good example of this since it typifies the way in which they are put into effect .
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