Example sentences of "the way [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Earlier in this article I have argued that the initial debates and policies which emerged in the wake of the growing black presence were characterized by various forms of cultural and ethnic essentialism or reductionism and that this still persists , for example , in the way ethnic monitoring and other official know ledges are produced .
2 A second problem is the way ethnic credentialism has been used to canonize certain texts , or underwrite certain schools of thought as possessing the authentic or correct perspective on racism .
3 The way official paths often come into being is absurd .
4 A thorough understanding of the way official statistics were collected and of the workings of the administration is shown to be essential for the proper interpretation of these data .
5 It was fascinating to watch how people of different temperaments and races worked together or to observe the way key personalities tended to colour the group .
6 The dinner marked a Reporting Japan conference , which looked at the way western journalists report Japan .
7 Feminists should question , for instance , the way Western thought has downgraded the body relative to the mind , the emotions relative to reason .
8 Concentration on evolutionism has led historians to ignore a wide range of parallel developments affecting the way western culture visualized the natural world .
9 Three Ukrainian bankers from the INKO Joint Stock Bank of Kiev ( motto : the Action Bank ) spent a week with the Branch gaining a valuable insight into the way western financial institutions operate .
10 Many situations predispose to spatial disorientation — The main ones are : a ) Any situation involving a reduction or change in the way essential cues are available to you , eg on transition from visual to instrument flight or attempting to fly visually when what you can see is inadequate as in poor light , haze or high altitude .
11 That way they should develop a rounder picture and perhaps some insight into the way simple actions must be patterned before we recognise them as ‘ sensitivity ’ , ‘ passivity ’ or whatever .
12 Freud 's work should make sociologists wary of always accepting people 's own accounts at face value , in the way simple phenomenological approaches do , for then there is no role for theory , and more importantly , no way out of epistemological and ethical relativism .
13 One Whig voter , after " running violently against a clergyman " , said " stand out of the way passive obedience " .
14 The project will examine the way 11-16 year olds respond to scientific and technological change .
15 If Marx 's and Engels 's hypothesis concerning the origin of the State must remain questionable , their theory seems more important for understanding the way existing states actually work .
16 With the inability of stable monetary and/or fiscal policy to alter the real course of the economy , it is the determinants of the ‘ natural rates ’ that are the source of concern , and this is where the supply-siders would say they come in : by highlighting the way existing government policy provisions affect utility-maximizing choices , they concern themselves with the location of the various functions involved .
17 But in Japanese studies this tendency is compounded by the way contemporary Japan is starkly contrasted with the ‘ dark valley ’ of the 1930s .
18 It may now be said , however , that a self-conscious conventionalist would indeed ponder over past doctrine in the way actual judges do , not for evidence of popular opinion but more directly , because any lawmaker must take care to make new law consistent with old .
19 However , studies have shown ( Hood , 1962 , 1972 ; Parker et al. , 1999 ) that the chief formative influence on sentencing practice in magistrates ' courts is not the law or the advice received from other professionals in court , nor even the way similar cases have been decided by that particular court in the past .
20 One inescapable consequence of operating a highly discretionary decision-making process is a marked degree of disparity in the way similar offenders are dealt with by sentencers in different parts of the country .
21 In the chapter on working with young lesbians and gay men , the most common responses these young people receive from care staff are highlighted to show the way personal , misinformed attitudes can have a negative impact .
22 The stated objective of this new contract is to improve the standard of general practice and it proposes substantial changes in the way general practice is structured and financed .
23 Discussion about the way continental rifts form and how , in some cases , they develop into sites of continental rupture and sea-floor spreading raises the much broader question of why supercontinents break up .
24 Has this extensive network of connections nothing to do with the way contentious issues like discrimination against women or minorities pollution , state welfare , or housing costs were kept from the political agenda for so long ?
25 In this section I intend to focus on the way four of these problems have become interlinked , namely those of underachievement , the concern over indiscipline , and the need for social integration and the employability of particular groups .
26 Their replies were closer to the way a psychologist or a physiologist might interpret the question , though none of the children would understand the way visual perception works .
27 First , an outline of the way central government departments request funds is provided — the ‘ supply procedure ’ .
28 And many resent the way financial ‘ experts ’ seem to look down on them .
29 ‘ If you ask the players to perform to the extent that they are expected to entertain the public , they you must pay them as entertainers ’ , was the way former Ireland coach Jimmy Davidson summed up the situation .
30 It has n't stopped him making guest appearances and recordings with western orchestras , and he is no longer in a position where he 's asked only to conduct Russian music — ‘ Berlioz and Beethoven with British orchestras were far more interesting propositions for me than , for example , Tchaikovsky , because you remember too much the way Russian orchestras play Tchaikovsky with the huge sound and the heaviness and the passion ’ .
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