Example sentences of "[prep] the way a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Gwendolen she writes of the way a black woman like Sonia , Gwendolen 's mother , is treated , either with polite indifference or as if she is not there . |
| 2 | It is not easy to engage in discussion with someone who regards other opinions as no more than symptomatic of the way a bourgeois intellectual thinks under late capitalism . |
| 3 | These observations of distance and speed can be coupled with general knowledge of the way a small probe behaves in the gravitational fields of bodies in the Solar System to determine the spacecraft 's position with astonishing accuracy , typically to a few hundred metres at a range of hundreds of millions of kilometres . |
| 4 | The breakdown of capitalism and the advent of a new form of society are conceived and explained as the outcome of the way a particular structure — the capitalist mode of production and capitalist society — works , not as the product of a historical process ; and the post-capitalist societies which can be foreseen , or which actually exist , may be as varied as were feudal societies or the absolutist states . |
| 5 | Deafness is unique among disabilities in that it is the clearest example we have of the way a different experience of the world can forge a completely different approach to life , which is expressed through a separate and unique language and culture . |
| 6 | But at least she would be treading in his footsteps , and somewhere along the way a clearer picture of him might emerge . |
| 7 | The many , varied patterns take the beginner to advanced levels of the art , teaching him along the way a great mixture of different techniques containing all the essential elements of taekwondo . |
| 8 | They can get so much more out of it if you encourage them to approach it in the way a real production would be approached — as an exercise in communicating something to a specific audience . |
| 9 | There are manifest dangers in the way a relative norm is chosen , but once it is accepted that relative validity is all we can aim at these need not worry us unduly . |
| 10 | Minsky 's ‘ supreme organizer ’ view must be a hierarchical one , for that organizer alone has the model of its relation to other modules , and it must therefore always be in control , because no other module has the model of relationships that would allow it sometimes to be in control ( in the way a heterarchical view requires ) . |
| 11 | The question of quantity used is obviously intimately related to the way a given individual finances his or her habit , a perspective which will be taken up in Chapter 7 . |
| 12 | On the way a strong wind gets up and blows a tree down . |
| 13 | The pop Poet Laureate of the cabaret circuit , Hegley chooses subjects which range from McDonalds to the Gulf War , taking in on the way a whole range of everyday tragedies : |
| 14 | Both types of consent arguments are based on actual consent and differ from the hypothetical consent theories recently made popular by John Rawls , which are a form of moral argument concerning the way a fair-minded person should reconcile his interests with those of others . |