Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] the way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among the interesting things to emerge from this first study was the way in which teachers equated formal evaluation exclusively with pupil assessment . |
| 2 | One aspect of this fear was the way in which the new notion of female impurity rapidly made inroads into the popular imagination , with the result that women came to be seen as a constant stumbling block to man 's improvement , a blight on the possibility of his attaining the now required ( i.e. post-exilic ) standard of personal purity . |
| 3 | The 250LM demonstrated conclusively that the mid-engined configuration was the way ahead . |
| 4 | One pointer was the way that a growing percentage of the work-force was employed in the various activities of tourism , much of it of necessity on a shortterm or seasonal basis . |
| 5 | One of the most controversial aspects of the 1985 Act was the way in which crucially important services hitherto provided by the GLC and the six ‘ mets ’ were transferred not to elected second-tier authorities but to non-directly elected joint boards . |
| 6 | THE Government 's ‘ I 'm backing winners ’ policy emphasised that competitiveness was the way to achieve real economic growth , according to Secretary of State Peter Brooke . |
| 7 | One of the main difficulties for the advisory team was the way , particularly following the Education Department 's reorganization , they had to combine their advisory role with considerable administrative responsibilities , both for ‘ their ’ schools and across the system as a whole . |
| 8 | If I am to do better than merely throw up my hands and assert that Alison Kraemer was in some indefinable way ‘ the real , right thing ’ , then I would suggest that the distinguishing characteristic of her ascendancy was the way she denied you any possibility of mitigating it . |
| 9 | For one seasoned Whitehall figure involved in the build-up to the Falklands War , in the conflict itself and its aftermath , among the starkest lessons of the greatest trauma of the Thatcher period was the way in which the shortcomings of contemporary Cabinet government were thrown into sharp relief . |
| 10 | Parallel with this ideology and another means of countering the increasingly corporate nature of the business was the way she fostered the involvement of her own children and their friends . |
| 11 | The right hon. Gentleman said that a reduction in the prison population was the way to improve the position in prisons . |
| 12 | sounds terr er terrible to me , because Pad was the way to Colliery , the last half mile along a dirt track . |
| 13 | If , however , her main dislike of Ken 's sexual behaviour was the way it coloured his career , then she has perhaps cause for concern . |
| 14 | The manner in which Gaveston and Despenser monopolized access to the king was deeply resented : when the king 's personal decision counted for so much , access to the king was the way to obtain grants and favours for a magnate and for his dependants . |
| 15 | One particularly noticeable development was the way in which each group defended its position in response to the queries and suggestions of other groups . |
| 16 | My Manchester United lads went there three times in a fortnight last season and came home with two wins and a draw , and the biggest factor was the way Gary Pallister handled Lee Chapman . |
| 17 | I knew that knowledge was the way to turn situations around . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ It occurs to me that one of the cleverest things about Operation Eagle was the way Colonel Steiner and his men were transported to England . ’ |
| 19 | An example was the way that community groups with apparently widely different aims and interests could be brought together to learn from each other . |
| 20 | What did perhaps seem like a continuation of the miracle was the way in which Patrick had regained his healthy appearance and good looks . |
| 21 | It occurred to her that the way she was holding Peach was the way a woman holds a baby and she lowered him gently into her lap . |
| 22 | But in the end their greatest impact was the way in which they helped to change most people 's way of lite and in so doing changed much of the landscape . |
| 23 | The most disheartening part of the Terror was the way the intellectual , creative , artistic people chickened out as if nothing special was happening . |
| 24 | Grudgingly , Brian was forced to say that he had always thought it odd , but if reticence about her past was the way his wife wanted it , then he had been prepared to accept the situation . |
| 25 | The placid green door was the way into Bluebeard 's cupboard . |
| 26 | Mrs Hughes always had plenty to say about modern life and one pet grumble was the way grammar standards had declined since she stopped teaching the subject more than 50 years ago . |
| 27 | The sky was the way he liked it best and thought best suited to the terrain it overcast , piled with cloud in pillars and columns and towers and ramparts , so that in places the vapour seemed not insubstantial but composed of solid masonry . |
| 28 | At Folasade 's school , asking someone if she was on the Pill was the way of asking her if she was sleeping with her boyfriend or not . |
| 29 | Also , the biggest point in his favour was the way he remembered her so well that he not only had not minded admitting it to me , but had been very nice in the process . |
| 30 | He had always hated Jews — the pogrom was the way to deal with them — and a beating gave more satisfaction than use of a gun . |