Example sentences of "way of [noun] [that] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | France had given ‘ due importance to the kind of rural traditions without which it would be impossible to enjoy a way of life that recognises the importance of elements in our lives which enrich and enoble us , but which are not ‘ cost-effective ’ in strictly economic terms . ’ |
| 2 | To have a dual occupation was an ancient way of life that lingered on in this area well into the Victorian period . |
| 3 | The vast majority of black people go to church ; it 's a way of life that goes way back . |
| 4 | Killjoy explains bipedalism — that is , walking on two legs — as a way of life that left the hands free for other things . |
| 5 | Mallerstang is one of the quietest of the Pennine valleys , unfrequented by tourists and free from heavy traffic : it is a pleasant ribbon of green deepset between lofty heights , sparsely populated and always giving the impression of rural contentment and a way of life that remains as unchanged as the landscape . |
| 6 | Dent is so refreshingly different from the city environments of most of the visitors that it would be churlish to deny them this glimpse of a way of life that belongs to history . |
| 7 | His intellectual and emotional itinerary between 1924 and 1927 is the record of a deepening crisis brought on by a growing realisation of the political and social dimension of his current lifestyle , an awareness that his pursuit of academic excellence and success had implicated him personally in a way of life that contradicted , subverted and emasculated the values and beliefs of his own social origins . |
| 8 | What needs to be emphasised , though , is that direct experience — becoming part of a way of life that includes the alien in a wider definition of what it is to be human — seems to be almost the only way of achieving demystification . |
| 9 | It is the way in which Truth or God impinges on or finds expression in the lives of people and as far as Gandhi is concerned it is through the beliefs and traditions of the Hindu way of life that lie finds himself indissolubly bound to Truth . |
| 10 | Overall , there is an abiding impression of emptiness , of a natural pace and rhythm and of a traditional way of life that has all but disappeared from superficially similar island communities elsewhere in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland . |
| 11 | When we speak of a delinquent subculture , we speak of a way of life that has somehow become traditional among certain groups in American society . |
| 12 | Some of these saw Communism as a pretty serious threat to a way of life that included cricket , and for these people Hitler was more than a passing attraction . |
| 13 | The room was empty , with a high-ceiling and cold in the special icy , musty-smelling way of places that have known no heat for a long time . |