Example sentences of "way it [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | London is not the way it is through sheer inertia and accident . |
| 2 | A lot of bias , yeah , I mean because that 's that 's the way it is over there , there 's an awful lot of prejudice and there 's an awful lot of |
| 3 | The choice of printouts that are available at any time will depend on the type of garment you have designed and the way it is to be knitted . |
| 4 | If the trustee does not summon a meeting to consider the resolution to remove him , the court can order such a meeting to be held and give directions as to the way it is to be conducted ( r 6.130 ) . |
| 5 | These variables are primarily the product , its price structure , the way it is to be promoted , and how it is to be distributed . |
| 6 | Here it is important to see that the traditional category of plural is not symmetrically applied to first Person in the way it is to third : we does not mean plural speakers in the same way that they means more than one third person entity ( Lyons , 1968 : 277 ) . |
| 7 | That 's the way it is for me , ’ he says . |
| 8 | For that 's the way it is for the talented twosome . |
| 9 | At least that 's the way it is with me , if I can see something in operation I can understand it far more quickly than when someone tries to describe it ’ |
| 10 | ‘ You know the way it is with me . |
| 11 | This seems to be the way it is with men and women ; buckets of water from a well , one drawing deep while the other is empty , and so on , as if there is a physical law governing the amount of emotional nourishment available to a couple . |
| 12 | You know the way it is with a thing like that . |
| 13 | ‘ Because that 's the way it is with us , ’ he returned with the faintest of smiles . |
| 14 | Yes , that 's the way it is at San L — even if the partner you 've split with is the next king . |
| 15 | The way it is at present , we can not , we can not get more loot to put into the new project but the bank manager , i.e. the Chancellor of the Exchequer , reminded us a few months ago that the other way of funding our projects he encouraged us to look at our current assets and if possible liquidate some of that asset and fund it , or or use it to fund our new schemes and this Mr Mayor is what we should be doing . |
| 16 | Either way it is of little use to the bereft locked full of raw grief , which might one day mature into something more bearable , and might not . |
| 17 | When this picture was fully developed , even space was represented not as being qualitatively the way it is in vision , but as a structural isomorph of visual and tactile space . |
| 18 | This might be a glitch in the translation , but when Casaubon observes , ‘ Life is n't simple , the way it is in detective stories ’ , the gobsmacking banality can only be the author 's . |
| 19 | ‘ Kylie feels she should have the copyright over her image , that is the way it is in Australia and that is the way she thinks it should be everywhere . |
| 20 | ‘ Strong ’ formulations of the principle claim that the universe is the way it is in order for us to be here to observe it . |
| 21 | The fact that all the acts are the same couple of blokes is just the way it is in modern dance . |
| 22 | It is important to notice that the distinction between these two kinds of language ( the artificially constructed and the communicating ) is often more a question of the way we use or think about a particular stretch of language , than the way it is in itself . |
| 23 | It is impossible to understand why health care is financed the way it is in the United Kingdom without looking briefly at its historical origins . |
| 24 | In this way it is in direct contrast to the earlier work and highlights the difficulty of such juxtapositions for the viewer faced with a difference of genre and historical location . |
| 25 | But that 's always the way it is in |
| 26 | Farrell , 1950 ) Consciousness , we are invited to say , is a way it is like to be , or , perhaps better , a way of being . |
| 27 | It 's a short , sharp , you can see it there , you get to the top of it , get up to your roundabout , we hang a right , and the next , it 's a bit of a drag all the way up , you save coming , coming the other way it 's down hill , from just past The Bull , until you get to the , almost to that junction you turn off the top and you 're going up hill , just slowly , but cor , you get up to that , our junction , she drops down , we went straight down through the High Street , and we hung a right in the one way system , turn left , did n't get , quite get to Green Lane , turn left and up we come round the Green Lane , up and in the back way . |
| 28 | ‘ In a way it 's like starting in football all over again . |
| 29 | ‘ In a way it 's like going back to square one , and starting from scratch again , but it 's what we have to do . ’ |
| 30 | In a way it was as if she was drugged . |