Example sentences of "way of [noun sg] [conj] [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 | For the ryokan represents the essence of things Japanese — atmosphere , customs , traditional arts , and , fundamentally , the conventional Japanese way of life as engendered from past centuries . |
| 14 | Punch is certainly one of the great British institutions , and has become so much a way of life as to make it impossible to imagine a world without it . |
| 15 | Other heads saw devolution as a whole new way of life and adopted an approach whereby the power of devolution was used to enable the school to drive the curriculum . |
| 16 | 1985 : The BPI admit that home-taping has become a way of life and produces a booklet that estimates some 466 million hours of music were taped in the home during 1983 alone . |
| 17 | What this meant in practical terms was that the hunters were non-reproductive , and presumably in order to become reproductive had to give up their youthful way of life and return to the traditional mode of subsistence . |
| 18 | The caravan interests , on the other hand , argued the case for recognition of caravanning as an acceptable way of life and pressed for more positive approaches by the local authorities . |
| 19 | The role of propaganda and indoctrination was essential to reinforce the concrete pressures on Romanians to change their way of life and thought . |
| 20 | The DAR were very snazz at what they did , which was remembering the founding fathers , upholding the traditional American way of life and torturing and killing people . |
| 21 | When a project researching into the cause of this disease carefully examined a group of men in London , recording their way of life and following their subsequent history for twenty years or until they died , the strongest risk factor for coronary heart disease was found to be smoking and the strongest protective factor the intake of cereal fibre . |
| 22 | However , Asian immigrants had a different , closed way of life and did not blend with traditional working class or East End ways of living . |
| 23 | There is also the opportunity to see new places , another way of life and meet new friends : rock music tourism . |
| 24 | Applying the principles of the 12 Steps in all aspects of life so that they become a natural way of life and provide the capacity to live happily and confidently without the need for mood-altering substances or behaviours . |
| 25 | It was another seventy years before it arrived in Sussex , then more by accident than design , at least in human terms ; Bede recounted that a Scottish monk , Dicul , had set up a small monastery with five or six brothers at Bosham in the 660s but none of the natives were willing to follow their way of life or listen to their teaching . |
| 26 | Then the Holy Spirit , the Spirit of life , makes his presence felt by the way of love and gives life to all . |
| 27 | Jana 's work is based on the belief that exploring creative expression is one way of finding and strengthening our inner power . |
| 28 | Nothing fancy is looked for in the way of bait and tackle : it 's the basic hook , line and worm . |
| 29 | The term groupware refers to products designed to provide teams of ( what may be widely dispersed ) PC users , termed workgroups , with an easy-to-use interactive way of communicating and sharing information . |
| 30 | This device provides a safe , simple , and quick way of cutting and stripping the ends of electrical flex , first by removing the tough outer insulation , and then by baring the inner wires . |