Example sentences of "was [art] [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was the unkind way you told him . ’ |
| 2 | Struggling with an unfamiliar language , the simplest conversations were misinterpreted , as when Herbert Hobden ( Holzinger ) failed to understand why ‘ yes ’ was pronounced ‘ yessah ’ at school until someone explained that it was the respectful way to address the teacher : ‘ Yes , sir . |
| 3 | But we never even walked arm-in-arm , as was the accepted way for conventional Spanish male friends or accomplices like the black-glassed Falangists . |
| 4 | I 'm glad young people do n't have to go to work so early these days , but for many of my generation , it was the accepted way of life , and most of them were happy in it . |
| 5 | At one time , this tradition was widespread throughout the country , and was the accepted way of managing the woodlands . |
| 6 | It took Quiss longer than he had expected to get to the castle kitchens ; they 'd changed some of the corridors and stairways en route from the games room to the lower levels , and Quiss , taking what he thought was the usual way , had found himself making an unexpected left turn and coming to a windy , deserted , echoing chamber which looked out over the white landscape to the tall wooden towers of the slate mines . |
| 7 | Such mobility was not only common , it was the usual way of life . |
| 8 | It was the traditional way of avoiding the consequences of such cavalier an attitude to the obligation of Paying Your Way . |
| 9 | His speech to representatives of the Moscow gentry in March 1856 was tame , his creation of a secret committee in 1857 was the traditional way to sweep calls for change under the carpet , the Nazimov Rescript envisaged a form of emancipation which would have severely damaged the peasantry , the relaxation of censorship in January 1858 was short-lived and the provincial tour of 1858 represented yet another futile attempt to persuade nobles to accept a measure they were bent on resisting . |
| 10 | In years gone by , emptying the larder of flour , milk and eggs was the traditional way of starting the fast of Lent . |
| 11 | ‘ I do n't think our one gallon sprayers are the answer ’ was the polite way to describe the response ! |
| 12 | The thing I learned from last year was the amazing way my body changed with such little work . |
| 13 | The Limestone Link is the second in a series of walking routes promoted by South Lakeland District Council — the first was the Cistercian Way opened in May 1990 . |
| 14 | Do you feel that was the right way round for you ? |
| 15 | Ramsey ended the week with a conviction that Temple 's quiet explanation of a Christian philosophy of life was the right way to expound Christianity in modern society and that the emotional popular mission was the wrong way because it appealed to the wrong emotions . |
| 16 | ( Alice did not know if this was the right way to speak to a mouse . |
| 17 | Perhaps he thought a Naval commission was the right way to start his career . |
| 18 | It was the long way round , but she did it every day . |
| 19 | That was the gentlemanly way . |
| 20 | And still popular was the middle way of going , and shouldering the cost of it later — if anyone could be found trusting enough to allow you to . |
| 21 | That was the Irish way that . |
| 22 | and he was n't sure like how , what was the correct way to reply to it , right ? |
| 23 | This was the female way of becoming blood brothers-unlike the boys they did not cut each other 's thumbs . |
| 24 | That was the unspoken alternative ( or at least unspoken by all except the red crow , who cheerily brought the subject up on every third or fourth visit ) , that was the easy way out . |
| 25 | The Welsh problem was the poor way we used the ball we received . |
| 26 | " Sir , " as Anna knew very well , was the straight way to my father 's heart . |
| 27 | In the new state , fostering was the only way to provide a home for orphaned and otherwise parentless children . |
| 28 | Advocates of the first-past-the-post system argued that it was the only way of delivering strong government , Mr Cook said . |
| 29 | The East German government clearly felt this was the only way it could agree to the departure of more than 5,000 East Germans who had flooded into the Prague embassy since the first batch were allowed to leave on Saturday night . |
| 30 | For Belinda , looking after Sophie was the only way she knew how to deal with the shock . |