Example sentences of "the way of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We rejoice that the affairs of the nations are secure in your keeping ; that the Holy Spirit is directing the ways of leaders of governments , leaders of commerce , the professions , industry and the unions . |
| 2 | Otherwise , the ways of managers and professionals , accustomed only to the customs of public bureaucracies and monopolies , will reassert themselves . |
| 3 | He 'd forgotten how much he knew the ways of horsemen of old . |
| 4 | You know more about the ways of animals and how to handle them than most of the youngsters we get working here now . ’ |
| 5 | To send her two young sons , Mathieu and Laurent , to sleep , Cécile de Brunhoff told them the story of a little elephant who left the forest to discover the town and learn the ways of men , before returning to his own idyllic land of the elephants to be crowned king . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've come too far from the ways of men to be able to go back now … but we must get away from that sea ! ’ |
| 7 | There he got talking to a gaunt girl in an ash-stained black smock who claimed to have read his screenplay and who , over glasses of red wine , and later in the terrible pub , told him he was a weakling and a hypocrite with no notion of the ways of men and women . |
| 8 | He did n't see his task as correcting the ways of men who had strayed into crime and needed help ; he and his warders existed to protect society from the kind of human garbage locked within the walls of Whitely . |
| 9 | That Old Mother Walsh had it right and that Ella Walsh should never have led the Church into the ways of men . |
| 10 | ‘ Maybe you learned about the ways of criminals but we at World 's End are not all criminals , there are good and bad everywhere . ’ |
| 11 | It would be infinitely better if these feelings could be translated into action by the islanders themselves , rather than imposed by outsiders who , by their very upbringing , may never fully understand the ways of islanders . |
| 12 | ‘ And I do n't mean next year , ’ Emma said , wise in the ways of brothers . |
| 13 | We pray for our brothers in the developing world , those for whom hunger and disease are daily realities , those who feel powerless to change the ways of nature or the ways of nations ; bring nearer , O Lord , the day of their deliverance . |
| 14 | ‘ Strange are the ways of princes ! ’ |
| 15 | He was a scholar and for many years studied to learn the ways of dragons ; he was proud but not stupid , and he learned all that the books could teach him , and then he set off on a long journey and captured two baby dragons and brought them home as pets . |
| 16 | The British way of life is thought to be best and the ways of foreigners , inexplicable . |
| 17 | ‘ I ca n't offer you anything in the way of shoes . |
| 18 | I know the way of things . ’ |
| 19 | But that was the way of things . |
| 20 | That is the way of things , the way the world works . ’ |
| 21 | The Stasi , the secret police , successor to the Gestapo ( and probably partly recruited from it , as is the way of things ) not only kept files on most East German citizens but also encouraged — or blackmailed — people to fill them by informing . |
| 22 | That had been the way of things for several years . |
| 23 | That is a pity , perhaps , but it does not mean that everyday language is bad ; it is imply the way of things that language is not alive unless it is vernacular , because the adornments and abbreviations are the adornments and abbreviations of human thought . |
| 24 | ‘ But it takes a bit of time to get used to other players and the way of things . |
| 25 | The young males had left the nest and taken wing ; within a couple of generations almost no-one would even remember these Westcountry origins — such is the way of things . |
| 26 | ‘ Lookit , I 'm local and I know the way of things here . |
| 27 | In her heart , Beth sensed that he knew the way of things , and this only made him all the more determined to have a son of his own . |
| 28 | Never a mention of the one who spent many an hour teaching him the way of things . |
| 29 | But that 's the way of things . |
| 30 | Erm and because of the way of things , you do n't always get the components the same way every day . |