Example sentences of "way it [is] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Should your foot drop to the outside of the opponent 's leading leg , you could try hooking it around his ankle and dragging his foot the way it is pointing . |
| 2 | More investigations are needed to understand how the imbalance came about , even though the way it is maintained seems clear . |
| 3 | ‘ And the way it is joined is not right ; it is at too much of a right-angle so the presenter has to shift like this to see who they are talking to . |
| 4 | All this causes great distress through ignorance of the nature of the disease and the way it is transmitted . |
| 5 | As long as the mouse is within about five feet of the receiver unit , it will work no matter which way it is pointed , even with obstacles like cups and books in between . |
| 6 | ( Since then I have learned that the way it is done is in a body bag , which is much easier to handle , and then transferred to a coffin either in the pick-up vehicle or at the undertakers . ) |
| 7 | For the Bank , probably the biggest is the growing dissatisfaction of its rich-country shareholders over the way it is run . |
| 8 | with you in the way it is run when you when I took my allegations to him because that 's basically what they 're saying it is I know it 's no allegations |
| 9 | One answer lies in the fact that law is not simply what is in the books , but is also the people who work it , the way it is implemented , and the reaction of those to whom it is addressed . |
| 10 | Clinics need to constantly educate clients and colleagues alike as to the nature of counselling , and the variants in the way it is conducted . |
| 11 | ‘ I ca n't understand how people can pay excessive amounts to watch football the way it is played today , ’ he said . |
| 12 | Even where knowledge appears the same though , there is often a difference in the way it is applied and understood . |
| 13 | In addition , because of the way it is developed , the Z-Score approach can often see through window dressing , which may defeat normal one at a time radio analysis focusing on conventional ratios . |
| 14 | The plot of the remainder of the novel revolves around a series of attempted rebellions by various factions at the convention who are critical of the way it is organized . |
| 15 | Her fervent anti-collectivist impulse is a strong shaper of the kind of policy advice she wants and the way it is served up . |
| 16 | For the substance of the ancient deposit of faith is one thing , and the way it is presented is another , ’ ( my translation ) . |
| 17 | In work situations the attractiveness of the goal relates to the way it is presented , hence the importance of the advertising department in presenting our products . |
| 18 | Chomsky and Sampson claim that this tree-like decomposition of a sentence into its parts is a feature common to all human language , and is indeed the basis upon which we determine the meaning of a sentence from the way it is built up out of its parts ( an insight going back at least to Frege ) . |
| 19 | In other words , it was appreciated that the appearance of an area develops from its function and the way it is built ; it is not something which is applied afterwards . |
| 20 | The way in which some modern political leaders exploit envy for their own purposes , and the way it is built into some party programmes , positively suggest that this is a powerful current of feeling which can be readily and effectively exploited . |
| 21 | I hope that my own account will encourage other people to reflect on their own perceptions of mathematics and the way it is taught , especially to pupils with learning difficulties . |
| 22 | It implies that the ‘ content ’ of a course may be intimately intertwined with its ‘ process ’ : the way it is taught , the staff who teach it , the environment it takes place in . |
| 23 | This is a salutary reminder of the powerful implications of teacher enthusiasm : no doubt at least part of the popularity of any text has as much to do with the way it is taught , as with characteristics embodied in the text itself . |
| 24 | ‘ Well , I 'm not sure that I should be raking up all this , but in a way it is related to Luke 's attitude towards Elise , and you did ask … |
| 25 | We may assume , however , that he will have a better understanding of the purpose of the author in constructing the text in the way it is constructed if he knows that it is written in the late nineteenth century ( which will account for some differences in code , in Hymes ' terms ) in Victorian England ( which will account for the reference to a Reformatory ) and that the author is constructing the first English detective story , narrating the events from the point of view of four different participants , whose characters are in part revealed by the narrative style which the author assigns to them . |
| 26 | the actual way it is created will depend on the carriage setting . |
| 27 | All that has changed is the nature and volume of data , and the way it is created and accessed . |
| 28 | Terminology is very careful in the way it is couched . |
| 29 | In this way it is believed the benefits of the measures will be maximised . |
| 30 | The sailor 's personal log might not only record what has happened on the journey so far , it might also speculate about what the crew should do with the merman they 've caught in their nets ; it might contain thoughts about food and the way it is stored on board ship ; it might suggest new ways of storing food . |