Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [prep] [art] [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wound I made in you has healed in an ugly way . |
| 2 | Britain has been subject to the same decline in long-stay beds and has responded in the same way as other European countries to this fall in the mental hospital population . |
| 3 | This is something he has carried in a big way into his later professional life . |
| 4 | This is a movement which has grown in the only way that alliances can , from the bottom up ; it is not merely a discussion group , but a real movement engaged in real debate . |
| 5 | Schüssler Fiorenza has shown in an impressive way in In Memory of Her that women 's contribution to the life of the church was not so marginal as has often been assumed . |
| 6 | Similar fact evidence , that is evidence that a person has acted in a similar way in the past or that a similar situation has arisen previously , is admissible in certain circumstances . |
| 7 | In linking the resourcing of the school library to specific curriculum developments , and in making grants only to those schools whose plans comply with specified criteria , the local authority has acted in the same way as such central government agencies as the Department of Education and Science ( DES ) and the Manpower Services Commission ( MSC ) . |
| 8 | A pattern has evolved in her writing schedule : when she has reached about the half way stage of the book , she will get together with her editor Rosie Cheetham and her agent Christine Green to discuss progress . |
| 9 | It is difficult to quantify buying patterns , but I can say that American buying has dipped in the same way that European and non-European buying has dipped . |
| 10 | It can co-exist as alternative spellings during transition — indeed , a hundred or so words have been simplified this century when dictionaries have listed alternative spellings and the public has opted for the easier way of arranging the letters . |
| 11 | It has stuck to an antiquated way of operating that harks back to the days of guild power , and has refused to countenance criticism . |
| 12 | This has led to an alternative way of stating amplifier performance : compare the distortion plus noise with the total output . |
| 13 | The Oxford postgraduate student has hit on a novel way of studying moths on his forthcoming trip to Sumatra . |
| 14 | The Oxford postgraduate student has hit on a novel way of studying moths on his forthcoming trip to Sumatra . |
| 15 | Humanism has resulted in a hedonistic way of life which is turning out to be anti-intellectual and irrational — consider the works of Francis Bacon — or Sid Vicious . |
| 16 | It has happened in an ad-hoc way , growing out of need and not out of legislation , or as a consequence of dictates from local or central government . |
| 17 | Crucially , though , failure has stemmed from the harsh way in which some of the more valuable players have been treated . |
| 18 | The importance of Healey Mills yard ( West Yorkshire ) has declined in a similar way , with most of its shunting duties transferred to Tinsley ( Sheffield ) and Doncaster . |
| 19 | The question has arisen in the following way . |
| 20 | Prisoner after prisoner has complained about the arbitrary way in which the prison regulations are enforced . |
| 21 | Thus , although Patterson has gellon for ‘ gallon ’ and care for ‘ car ’ , and although similar pronunciations are heard in Ulster rural dialects , our Belfast data show that the rule has receded in an orderly way through a series of environments . |
| 22 | Although all this was entertainingly unpleasant , in Bira the most genuine threat to our lives came disguised in the quietest way , when we broke the cardinal rule of touching an unidentified creature . |
| 23 | If that is the case , it 'll no doubt be going going gone in the only way a tardis knows how . |
| 24 | The proposition is that had these four countries remained outside the EC , their intra- trade in manufactures would have developed in the same way as their extra-trade . |
| 25 | I RECENTLY found a wallet containing credit cards which I could have used in a dishonest way . |
| 26 | If a theory like this were available , we would have reintroduced in a roundabout way the possibility of a conditional theory of justification . |
| 27 | Another archaic art-form known to us only from one find is the gold-and-ivory cult-statue : not on the vast scale of Pheidias 's creations in the next century ( below , p. 102 ) , but fragments of several life-size figures have been found buried under the Sacred Way at Delphi , probably from a burned treasury . |
| 28 | He would n't say how much money it had cost him to get married , but did say the money he would have made from Jamie 's maiden win would have helped in a big way . |
| 29 | She got ready to go to the smart hotel which Travis had named , feeling she could have acted in no other way . |
| 30 | ‘ I do n't think you could have thought of a better way of rewarding her , she seems such an independent little thing . ‘ |