Example sentences of "[art] certain way " in BNC.
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| 1 | This thing here , which looks like a wooden club , is actually several pieces of particular wood cunningly put together in a certain way so that the whole thing is sprung , like a dance floor . |
| 2 | Put simply , if it becomes the custom or the practice of a group of workers to do a job in a certain way and management makes no objection , then that method of working can be cited as a precedent in disputes . |
| 3 | So , for example , it is impossible to make sense of a statement that S is disposed to behave in a certain way unless one already understands the concepts required to understand the content of the relevant behaviour . |
| 4 | However , these conceptualizations also derive from the biographical situation of policemen and women , which predisposes them to define their role in a certain way . |
| 5 | You 've got to be able to talk to people on their own level , you get the best out of people if you treat them a certain way . |
| 6 | acted in a certain way and then found a reason for it . |
| 7 | Eliot asserts that it is perfectly possible to claim ‘ that primitive man acted in a certain way and then found a reason for it ’ . |
| 8 | When Sweetheart fixed her hair and make-up a certain way and dressed up in the clothes she made on her treadle sewing machine , she looked for all the world like Jane Russell come to life from the big screen . |
| 9 | People see me in a certain way at school , as someone outspoken and good at English ; then they see me with my head covered , and suddenly they seem to be thinking : submissive . |
| 10 | She has strong ideas about where pressures on girls to look a certain way begin . |
| 11 | Sometimes a girl is in conflict with her culture or religion in how she wants to dress and express herself , as Sneha ( Chapter 7 ) describes ; sometimes a young woman enjoys dressing a certain way but discovers that there are prejudices and stereotypes about the way she wants to look ; conflicts that might come from within , or from her family , her job , or the outside world . |
| 12 | All too often in politics we are handicapped by the fact that Mrs Jones has done something a certain way for twenty-seven years and therefore must be allowed to do it again this time . |
| 13 | The ‘ thing ’ led him to a certain way of thinking . |
| 14 | If the fossil is constructed in a certain way , then there are only a limited number of ‘ jobs ’ that the structure could perform . |
| 15 | For this is to understand my experience in a certain way , a way that others can challenge and ask me to explain . |
| 16 | And you have … a certain way with you ! ’ |
| 17 | In these cases while people have reason to act in a certain way , given the situation they are in , they also have reason to change the situation , though they are unable to do so by themselves . |
| 18 | Or rather it contributes by setting the question in a certain way . |
| 19 | One can waive one 's rights by consenting , but not by promising ( except in the special case in which the very undertaking of an obligation to act in a certain way terminates one 's right not to do so ) . |
| 20 | That is why if Jill knowingly leads Jim to expect that she will behave in a certain way she bears a responsibility to prevent harm to Jim as a result of this reliance , and so on . |
| 21 | I 've lived in this town long enough to know that when people are talking about a picture in a certain way you do n't need to spend a lot of money on hype , just a little in the right media and the nominations start piling up . |
| 22 | We spend a decade conditioning ourselves to act in a certain way , with a certain decisiveness , caution , thoroughness , and the result is that we ca n't shake it off at half past six and revert to some more natural state . |
| 23 | The first of these assumes a direct link between what happens before someone behaves in a certain way and their subsequent actions : |
| 24 | Thus the second major influence on behaviour is the reward , or payoff , as it is sometimes called , for acting in a certain way . |
| 25 | Some undertake this role at a working level by assisting and challenging the business units when they submit their plans ; for example , by questioning why the business units are not competing in a certain way or as much as they should . |
| 26 | He or she is doing a certain thing and we interpret it in a certain way which elicits a given emotion . |
| 27 | These rules may provide that certain business activities are always regulated in a certain way , irrespective of where they take place . |
| 28 | When we first made love , I would lie on the bed in a certain way so my tummy did n't flop , then I realised it was me he loved , flab and all . ’ |
| 29 | Eva could be snobby , that was obvious , but if I saw something , or heard a piece of music , or visited a place , I would n't be content until Eva had made me see it in a certain way . |
| 30 | He may be forced to act in a certain way out of moral considerations which still involves him in feelings of guilt and remorse . |