Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] way " in BNC.

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1 So I started to write a variation on the first bar and told her to go on in the same way and to keep to the idea .
2 Ordinarily , learning allows us to go on in the same way , to repeat what has been learned , whether it is a matter of fact ( that London is the capital of England ) or an action ( driving a car in familiar circumstances ) .
3 ‘ To be honest I do n't think it fits in with the Irish way of things .
4 ‘ No doubt , ’ said Mr Harold Brooks-Baker of Burke 's , ‘ it fits in with the freer ways of today but some feel that freedom is an over-used word .
5 Not only that , but he must have swallowed the large Garry Dog I had on the line , which must have floated down in an unrestricted way to him . ’
6 Cords , white or beige , were worn early on in small numbers but in mid'71 black/bottle green/navy straight leg Levi cords caught on in a big way .
7 Fast on its heels came MacPublisher and Ready-Set-Go but somehow neither caught on in the same way .
8 The man who entered a monastery did so , in principle , for life ; there were of course apostates ; there were also a number who moved on to a stricter way of life ; and a few who were promoted to abbeys elsewhere , or to bishoprics , or even to the papacy .
9 Back then , they did n't catch on in a big way . ’
10 It has to be said that , with this membrane idea , BOSS have come up with a brilliant way of programming the ME-10 .
11 ROBERT FRANKLIN of Los Gatos , California , has come up with a neat way of ensuring that electric gadgets such as irons and hair curlers turn themselves off when left unattended .
12 LISBURN have come up with a novel way of raising much-needed cash for the club .
13 With the breakdown of the administration , crime syndicates have come up in a big way .
14 ‘ But to suggest that coincidentally this recording , made just a fortnight earlier , was also picked up in the same way does stretch one 's credibility . ’
15 After a two-hour meeting , the Lib Dem leader , Jim Wallace , said his party had given the organisation another chance to come up with a new way forward .
16 The various decay products in the uranium chain are not present as they are not soluble in water , but they build up in a defined way , according to the decay rates of the individual isotopes in the chain .
17 The composition and terms of reference of urban development corporations will be changed immediately and they will in due course be wound up in an orderly way .
18 ‘ Let's go and find the bastards , ’ Sharpe grunted , and once he had said it he marvelled at how easy it was to slip back into the old ways of speaking about the enemy .
19 Press seam allowance to the wrong side on the lining and notch out in the same way .
20 Keith Pennyfeather , a senior countryside officer with the commission said : ‘ Much of the restoration being carried out on the Pennine Way inevitably occurs at remote sites a considerable distance from the nearest road .
21 After dilution , the determination of ammonia is carried out in the normal way .
22 New tasks for perception can only be carried out in the same way ‘ under the guidance of tactile appropriation ’ ( ibid : 242 ) .
23 Some business decisions can be carried out in the same way .
24 Also , enforcement is carried out in the same way by the weights and measures authorities , sections 27–33 .
25 Perhaps random spot checks could be carried out in the same way as breathalyser tests .
26 Many of the movements in the 1960s were reluctant to take this step , largely because of their hostility to the bureaucratic character of traditional parties , and they seem to have formed no clear idea of how the desired transformation of the economy , the political system and cultural patterns ( including education ) could actually be carried out in an effective way .
27 In 1970 — if you were eighteen and could lay your hands on a little ready money — it was almost de rigueur to travel overland to Greece where , in an idyllic island setting , you could hang out in the coolest way imaginable with amiable drug-dealers and liberated chicks .
28 The fact that the burns had come about in an unforeseeable way did not render the damage too remote .
29 ( 3 ) In other words , although farm modernisation policies have actively encouraged non-viable or older farmers to retire from farming , many in the poorer areas have not done so , living on in a traditional way for extremely low returns .
30 On behalf of all her fans , I would like to wish her the best of luck in 1992 and hope that she will carry on in the dedicated way she has in the past year or so .
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