Example sentences of "way it [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Halliday 's analysis is revealing in the way it relates precise linguistic observation to literary effect . |
| 2 | In the way it lays bare dark emotional rumblings normally concealed beneath the constraints of village life , Went the Day Well ? suggests Cavalcanti had learned as much from the Surrealists he worked with in Paris as from Britain 's documentarists . |
| 3 | She 's angry at the way it portrays handicapped people , and has helped organise a blockade of a television studio . |
| 4 | Coxswain Robert McMullan took the lifeboat to Ballycastle and on the way it became clear , via the Coastguard , that a large number of people had been stranded as the Rive Tow burst its banks . |
| 5 | erm you end up with four different er types of er reproductive strategies which are of monogamy , polygyny , polygamy and polyandry and the first one monogamy is when you have one male and female and er this minimizes the differences in reproductive success and the way it does that is because erm it , it minimizes the difference between the sexes because monogamy takes the limitations of the male erm to reproduce only with the one female so the male to female ratio of reproductive success the same in monogamy , and er what happens to that is this little in er more equal towards their parental investment . |
| 6 | In some way it conveyed utter disbelief . |
| 7 | That was the way it looked four hundred feet up . |
| 8 | all the satellites hanging down it was very good the way it had all been done in , in that respect but what I found was the first bit was very boring , I found but when it got going a bit it was better but the whole moral of the story was that nowhere is perfect to live but it 's hard for y young children like this |
| 9 | So specifiers will need to know not just that a tile meets EC requirements , but — crucially in northern Europe — in what way it meets those requirements . |
| 10 | This high level route is not for the faint hearted — as well as being longer than the Pennine Way it involves much more climbing . |
| 11 | Or at least with the way it converts internal formats into PostScript . |
| 12 | In some way it seemed that Why ? was to be answered by the existence of a person . |
| 13 | In some extraordinary way it seemed hotter now than at midday when the blistering sun was overhead ; such faint breeze as there might be from the water seemed to fall utterly it this turn of the tide . |
| 14 | The last tour I had the whole thing note-for-note worked out and it got a bit boring after a while ; this way it stays exciting and sometimes I pull it off and sometimes I die a death . |
| 15 | ( In fact , Mr Duroselle seems almost to believe that the worst aspect of colonialism was the way it divided European nations that might otherwise have come together . ) |
| 16 | The framework I want to propose rests upon a regard for the importance of the active , interpreting self in social interaction ; for the way it perceives , makes sense of and works upon the actions of others and the situation in which it finds itself ; the way it pursues goals and tries to maximize its own ( often competing ) interests ; the way it pursues these things by combining or competing with other selves ; the way it adjusts to circumstances while still trying to fulfil or retrieve its own purposes — and so forth . |
| 17 | In this way it facilitated public representation of the relationship between the state , capital , and an emerging working class as one of pre-eminent moral stature . ’ |
| 18 | Pressure from parents has forced a hospital to think again about the way it treats some young patients . |
| 19 | Although it already had a number of blue chip clients , such as Wm Low and the Scottish Development Agency ( and now Scottish Enterprise ) , perhaps what made the firm 's reputation was the way it handled Scottish electricity privatisation for the Government , an appointment made before the Shandwick deal . |
| 20 | The way it works these days is just so divorced from everything we 're familiar with back home . |
| 21 | Assuming that each source wishes to minimize its total costs under the emission charges system , each would blend control expenditure ( to reduce its emissions and thus its emission charge liability ) and emission charges ( on those units of pollutants emitted after control ) in the way it finds cheapest . |
| 22 | Considering the mess Hollywood might have been made of Triumph Of The Spirit ( Rocky in the Death Camps ? ) , we should be grateful this true life biopic about a Greek boxer imprisoned in Auschwitz and forced to fight for his captors ' entertainment has ended up the way it has dignified but dull , lacking any real historical punch . |
| 23 | In one way it seems absurd — outrageous , even — to measure human life in pounds and pence . |
| 24 | Contrasted in this way it seems improbable that madness and creativity could spring from the same source . |
| 25 | Quite happy with the way it 's all gone ? |