Example sentences of "way a [noun sg] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Only that the place was never kept decently as far as I could see , not the way a gentleman 's house should be . |
| 2 | The aim of the research is to examine the way a user 's beliefs and knowledge about a particular computer system influence the form and content of the interaction which takes place . |
| 3 | In such a way a child 's promptness might save a soul from the long blankness of Limbo , or a child 's inattention or failure of nerve condemn it to years of the deadliest waiting until the day of Judgement , held still in the amber of the centuries . |
| 4 | Then the words rebounded back to my ears and I heard their sound and their meaning , and the pain came back at that moment , too , and it all made sense , the way a policeman 's knock on the door must make sense when you 've committed a crime . |
| 5 | For example , in many classrooms pupils can be found discussing the differences in vocabulary there would be between an on-the-spot oral account of a road accident and a newspaper report of it the following day ; or considering the ways in which conventional spellings can be violated in advertisements and brand names ; or listing some of the differences between their grandparents ' use of language and their own ; or talking about the way a poet 's choice of metaphor yokes together two dissimilar things so that something familiar is suddenly perceived in a new way ; and so on . |
| 6 | The way a poet 's mind works when he is being most a poet may be taken as the model of the process that operates as democracy in the political field and as education in the psychological field … |