Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] the [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 Fast on its heels came MacPublisher and Ready-Set-Go but somehow neither caught on in the same way .
5 ‘ 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 . ’
6 Press seam allowance to the wrong side on the lining and notch out in the same way .
7 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 .
8 After dilution , the determination of ammonia is carried out in the normal way .
9 New tasks for perception can only be carried out in the same way ‘ under the guidance of tactile appropriation ’ ( ibid : 242 ) .
10 Some business decisions can be carried out in the same way .
11 Also , enforcement is carried out in the same way by the weights and measures authorities , sections 27–33 .
12 Perhaps random spot checks could be carried out in the same way as breathalyser tests .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 ‘ The call came through in the normal way and we dealt with it as we normally would , ’ he said .
16 However , this result does not carry through in the same way to the cases we have just been discussing where managerial utility depends on effort as well as income .
17 Larger units of measurements in the metric system , are built up in the same way as the number system , based again on tens and tenths .
18 He remembers his lonely school days , in assured manner that his son will not grow up in the same way .
19 A cartridge pleat heading is made up in the same way as pinch pleats ( page 22 ) , but the bases of the small tubes ( pleats ) are not pinched up but left rounded by filling with a soft stuffing such as wadding .
20 In vain she may cry , as Gregor Samsa does to his parents , sister and employer , that the same person is there inside , looking out in the same way at the world .
21 Probably the notorious case of some rail coaches being moved by road came about in the same way .
22 Well , I daresay you 'd know I would n't nod off in the normal way .
23 All that memory can provide contributes already to our feeling that in calling this sensation ‘ pain ’ we are going on in the same way , following the rule .
24 The Bushman was following it , but suddenly he swerved aside and he went off in another direction and I followed him , although I could clearly see the buffalo hoofmarks leading off in the opposite way .
25 unc Now finish off in the usual way .
26 Put the line ferret through the system and the loose ferret may well be located and subsequently dug out in the same way as a rabbit .
27 And after closing the door , she still stood and repeated to herself , ‘ Land up in the same way as you did . ’
28 He has asked for much the same amount of money , divided up in the same way : two-thirds of the money to criminal-enforcement efforts , one-third to treatment .
29 Once the interlining has been locked in , the two layers of fabric can be treated as one and made up in the same way .
30 The computation involved is complicated , but well within the powers of a small box of modern electronic components wired up in the proper way .
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