Example sentences of "[adj] way [subord] [pers pn] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The likelihood is that you 'll go back to your old ways so you 'll have achieved nothing . |
| 2 | You can use one guitar in a hundred different ways if you can hear the sound . |
| 3 | But they have learned far more about morality this way than they would have done if they had been stopped from making their threats . |
| 4 | But it is a strange life when one sees one 's friends for perhaps one month in the year , and then we all go our separate ways until we can grasp another opportunity — sometimes between flights at airports ! |
| 5 | Why do something the hard way when you can save time and temper by doing it an easy way ? |
| 6 | But er we , we had quite a difficulty , very , very difficult , we used to have to walk a long way before we could get to a telephone . |
| 7 | and the problem of access to the flats , and sometimes the necessity to walk quite a long way before you can get out onto the street , which would be a problem for young mothers with , with , with small children , as equally it would be a problem for elderly people or disabled people . |
| 8 | But also of course there was this propaganda from from the government you know that erm they 'd just got to keep up morale and this was one one way as you will see in a minute of how they did it . |
| 9 | No two candidates will respond to questions in exactly the same way so you must keep a fair amount of flexibility in your approach — it would be wrong to stop a candidate from following up an interesting and potentially revealing answer simply because it is not coming at the designated point in your schedule . |
| 10 | We compare what we are seeing with what we know , to see if there is enough resemblance for us to treat the new thing in the same way as we would have treated the known thing . |
| 11 | However , there is a distinct intensional structure underlying them ( again , the underlining is purely to indicate which P we are interested in , and is not part of our notational system ) : ( 47 ) That is , users of English interpret the relation between the property of the adjective and the word or phrase which instantiates the preceding entity in just the same way as they would interpret the relation between a predicative adjective and the subject in an explicit clause ; it therefore seems reasonable to call adjectives so used clausal adjectives . |
| 12 | Prices will move in exactly the same way as they would move in a world in which buyers and sellers were able to learn from their market experience . |
| 13 | Gandhi speaks of loving enemies and reacting to their wrongdoings in the same way as you would react to the wrong-doings of friends and relatives . |
| 14 | Remember that adults should n't be treated in the same way as you would treat children . |
| 15 | In just the same way , you simply ca n't use coir in exactly the same way as you would use peat . |
| 16 | But if the tyre had not been expanded enough , we 'd have to have levers and gently lever and hammer it on , something in the same way as you 'd do with a bicycle tyre . |
| 17 | If in a sense it means how early can you teach children facts and contents and very straightforward knowledge , then I think the answer is not very early at all because it may be fairly meaningless that you could teach a child to repeat Newton 's law , perhaps the same way as you could teach him to repeat the eleven times table , but without a good concept of number or what Newton meant . |
| 18 | If in a sense it means how early can you teach children facts and contents and very straightforward knowledge , then I think the answer is not very early at all because it may be fairly meaningless that you could teach a child to repeat Newton 's law , perhaps the same way as you could teach him to repeat the eleven times table , but without a good concept of number or what Newton meant . |
| 19 | Finally , if Germany did become the true economic locomotive of Europe , then she could demand support from Europe if her economic strength ever began to falter , thus exploiting her weakness in the same way as she will exploit her strength . |
| 20 | He squeezes my hand tightly , much the same way as he might wring my heart . |
| 21 | The Emperor had no particular difficulty putting a stop to this , though the Company was able to re-establish its position by blockading shipping in the Bay of Bengal and the Emperor forgave the Company in much the same way as he would have forgiven any of his nobles who tried to rebel but who was so powerful that it was neither convenient nor practicable to destroy him . |
| 22 | Mr you see various people are giving evidence , and Mr wants to ask the right person , certain questions , namely the person who er devised those words and er you are er somebody in a very important position er and er he 's trying to get it from you , and as he 's pointed out to you a company ca n't sit down and produce in some corporate way a phrase someone or two human beings or more have got to do it and he wants to know if you can help us er who , who that was , that 's , that 's all you see , he does n't want to ask you about it , no doubt er , er in the same way as he 'd want to ask a person that actually devised a word , d' ya see ? |
| 23 | Because he liked women to be gentle and soft and obedient he thought that women would like being that way since it would make him like them . |
| 24 | ( They can also be removed in other ways as we 'll see in a moment ) . |
| 25 | And that can detect erm tumours , body defects and so forth in a , in a non-destructive way if I could put it that way . |
| 26 | Well they ca n't have it both ways if they can afford to save money they can , but if they do n't , then stay in the centre |