Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [vb pp] [prep] the way " in BNC.
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| 1 | His walk was very brisk and he always carried a preoccupied expression as if his mind was centred on the way the next work of art might be tackled . |
| 2 | At length , the dilemma was resolved in the way everybody recognised as inevitable : the marriage contract was torn up . |
| 3 | In the last section reference was made to the way in which the Unemployment Assistance Board , which was renamed the Assistance Board in 1940 , took over various functions from the public assistance committees in the early part of the war . |
| 4 | This difference of criterion as to the character of the conflict was reflected in the way power was handled on each side . |
| 5 | It was in a thick blue binding and its antique look — the paper was ruled in the way Henry remembered books of his childhood being ruled — gave it the air of a family bible . |
| 6 | Herbicide success was related to the way the seed-bed was prepared . |
| 7 | ‘ The secret was kept in the way most secrets are kept , which is to say that although the truth did not get out , something got out . |
| 8 | His spirit was epitomised by the way he came charging in late on the final day , giving it everything he had , despite an unresponsive surface and the near-certainty that the match would finish in a draw . |
| 9 | This withering criticism of the youth of the nation was reflected by the way in which all manner of novel terms — the ‘ mixed-up teenagers ’ , the ‘ wild ones ’ , the ‘ rebels without a cause ’ — entered into common usage in the 1950s , conveying the feeling that young people were somehow more radically unintelligible to older people than at any previous time in history . |
| 10 | Vi Gillman , spokeswoman for the National Back Pain Association , said the problem was caused by the way seats were designed and the posture of the people sitting in them . |
| 11 | The problem was exacerbated by the way gender inequality was often built into school management structures , and to some extent into the curriculum . |
| 12 | Garnets continued to be rubbed smooth and set en cabochon , but advantage was taken of the way the stone could be split into sheets to use it extensively for infilling gold cloisonné work , a technique invented by Sumerian goldsmiths and brilliantly employed , using a variety of infills , in New Kingdom Egypt . |
| 13 | The political role of the coin was manifested in the way that the widespread use of coinage enabled a regime or state to impose its authority in all of the many monetary transactions which take place in any society . |
| 14 | Further damage was caused by the way price rises were introduced , the report says . |
| 15 | What I can do is bring you someone now on the line who can tell us exactly why that decision was made and exactly why that money was spent in the way it was because we 've been joined by Councillor John Power . |
| 16 | In the early days , SCOTVEC and the unions discussed their difference of views on this issue and an agreement was reached on the way in which the validation criteria would be interpreted . |