Example sentences of "our way " in BNC.
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| 1 | What do you mean by us being set in our ways ? ’ he asked , the tone of his voice changing when he put the question . |
| 2 | Anthropological knowledge can seem , and often is , dangerous and subversive — not because we are good at digging up dirt ( we are ) , nor simply because we document what ‘ actually happens ’ rather than what is supposed to happen , but because our ways of defining situations and problems often raise questions in our minds about the fundamental assumptions on which any institution bases its own definitions , and indeed the assumptions on which it rests as an institution . |
| 3 | She feels imperialized , that everything familiar to her is being disturbed , the peace is being disturbed , and that our ways of telling ( form ) and what we have to tell ( content ) are simply not something that should be on an agenda of any kind . |
| 4 | It would not be a source of comfort to the hardpressed British public if they were to become aware that ( reckoning our overseas statistics globally not a single bean of substance for themselves or of capital equipment for British manufacturers is likely to be left over from the American credit ; and that we shall require , on balance , the whole of it , and , unless we change our ways , much more to feed and sustain Allies , liberated territories and ex-enemies , to maintain our military prestige overseas , and , generally speaking to cut a dash in the world considerably above our means . |
| 5 | Because they are semi-skilled they are low rated but they have got to learn to fit in with our ways you know . |
| 6 | But she did not know our ways and her complaints or corrections were harsh by comparison with my mother 's . |
| 7 | The collection of essays by Simon Reynolds in Blissed Out ( Serpent 's Tail , £8.99 ) at least advances our ways of responding to , and writing about , pop music . |
| 8 | This is exactly what happens once God has met us , spoken to us , challenged our ways and thoughts , and revealed himself to us . |
| 9 | I know we all get a bit stuck in our ways once we 're over thirty , but for Heaven 's sake , is n't it worth a try ? |
| 10 | When we reached the street corner where our ways separated I asked him not to tell anyone . |
| 11 | ‘ Oh we have our ways . |
| 12 | Certainly such management could furnish a more effectual remedy for the evils of our ways than many bills passed in the House of Parliament . |
| 13 | Rousseau ( 1762 , p.54 ) wrote in Émile : ‘ Childhood has its own ways of seeing , thinking and feeling ; nothing is more foolish than to try and substitute our ways ’ . |
| 14 | But the as yet unanswered question remains — does the political and commercial will to change our ways exist ? |
| 15 | ‘ We hiv our ways . ’ |
| 16 | A look at this month 's What 's New pages will show you that we 've acknowledged the error of our ways and now include review updates on products ( plus a new product news section ) . |
| 17 | ‘ We definitely played differently from Leeds and it 's only a question of him getting used to us and our ways . |
| 18 | ‘ We definitely played differently from Leeds and it 's only a question of him getting used to us and our ways . |
| 19 | As an example close to home , it would be a sanction much more powerful than an SEC if , as head of audit of my firm , I was called in to that panel to be told that if my firm wanted the institutional shareholders to vote their proxies in favour of our being reappointed auditors to this or that company , we would have to mend our ways in some respect . |
| 20 | Kingman concluded : ‘ It is not necessary to specialise in such studies to be aware that our ways of structuring sentences and thoughts , and , by extension , our ways of structuring our cultural values and beliefs , affect the whole of our individual and social lives . ’ |
| 21 | Kingman concluded : ‘ It is not necessary to specialise in such studies to be aware that our ways of structuring sentences and thoughts , and , by extension , our ways of structuring our cultural values and beliefs , affect the whole of our individual and social lives . ’ |
| 22 | I suppose I 'd wanted to lure the boy into an acceptance of our ways and if pancakes were the bait , I 'd use it . |
| 23 | I tried to answer and explain our ways , but it was difficult . |
| 24 | You know our ways . |
| 25 | The ruthless and bloody ways of Capitalism are not our ways . |
| 26 | As we grow older and closer to the unanswerable questions concerning our own mortality , it 's hardly surprising that most of us cling more strongly to that which we know and become set in our ways . |
| 27 | It is an exploration of [ a ] vocabulary … which has been inherited within precise social and historical conditions and which has to be made at once conscious and critical — subject to change as well as continuity — if the millions of people in whom it is active are to see it as active : not as a tradition to be learned , nor a consensus to be accepted ; … but as a vocabulary to use , to find our ways in , to change as we find it necessary to change it , as we go on making our own language and history . |
| 28 | They are based upon our ways of treating animals , whether it be killing them painlessly or protecting an endangered species or preserving a natural habitat . |
| 29 | From 11 May we are ‘ Changing Our Ways ’ with a new service which brings Teesside into the network . |
| 30 | Such work , though still exploratory , may transform our ways of understanding the historical creation of ‘ sexed individuals ’ . |