Example sentences of "[noun] have [vb pp] the [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , official teaching has gone the other way , becoming increasingly restrictive in its emphasis on the grounds that the sharing of communion is acceptable only as an expression , and not as a cause of unity . |
| 2 | A recent study has documented the many ways in which Conservative spokesmen have tried to manage the media and been conscious of the image of the government and Mrs Thatcher . |
| 3 | The tramp choked a little , as if the gum he accepted and popped into his mouth had gone the wrong way . |
| 4 | Many organizations have gone the whole way and created entirely different systems for each of these needs . |
| 5 | But if the means of communication have moved in a more public direction , the images have gone the other way . |
| 6 | Maggie 's gone the opposite way from Tesco 's ; her heels are sinking into grass . |
| 7 | Mrs Davidson , of Stirling , said that so many people had contacted them that the association 's annual meeting had decided the only way to raise its profile and make a difference for patients was to set up a body covering Scotland as a whole . |
| 8 | The townspeople had learned the hard way that curiosity killed the cat — you stayed indoors if there was trouble . |
| 9 | For this reason , long leases have become the usual way of owning individual flats and other properties with shared facilities … |
| 10 | I mean unfortunately the authority in days gone by has benefited from the scheme in the sense that the extra , extra money in service in truth , the revenue was there , erm , the chickens have come home to roost in the sense that it 's , the tables have turned the other way , and I mean , gone are the days where , when we 're least worried out that impact that , that , that much more of our er , of our budget . |
| 11 | For most of Day Two , the sun seemed to shine on Worcestershire , but the game has turned the other way since tea . |
| 12 | Experts say it 's good news for Rover , which could have been sold off if today 's European Court ruling had gone the other way . |
| 13 | There is ample room within the synaptic interactions of even 20,000 neurons for their properties to be those of the system rather than of its individual cells , and claims which were once popular that within insect and crustacean nervous systems one could find key ‘ command ’ neurons have gone the same way as , in eastern Europe , parallel enthusiasm for ‘ command economies ’ — that is , they turn out to be not a good way to organize individual behaviour any more than to run a country . |
| 14 | The Newmarket man says : ‘ His father was a late developer and Bonny Scot has pro-gressed the same way . ’ |
| 15 | Cider and culinary apple orchards have gone the same way , all helped along until a few years ago by government grants to grub up the old trees and replace them with easy to spray , prune and pick bush types . |
| 16 | Ever since we entered the training video market , competitors have claimed the only way we can offer training videos for less than they can is because we do not bear the full cost of production , by sourcing products from broadcast programmes . |