Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [prep] [art] [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | By a respondent 's notice dated 28 February 1992 the father contended that in the event of the appeal being allowed in part the order should be varied so that the local authority pay to the father a sum representing the costs incurred by the father in the family proceedings court and that sum to be calculated by a costs draftsman by reference to the Legal Aid in Family Proceedings ( Remuneration ) Regulations 1991 or alternatively , to an order that the local authority pay to the father a sum representing in relating to the proceedings below calculated in the same way but excluding all or part of the costs incurred on 27 and 28 January 1992 . |
| 2 | In his study of the development of literate practices in medieval England , From Memory to Written Record 1066–1307 ( 1979 ) , Michael Clanchy has suggested that the problem is better formulated in a different way . |
| 3 | Fifteen years later a treaty ended French frontier controversies with the city-republic of Geneva , while in 1760 another signed in Turin ( which incorporated a series of eight maps ) greatly simplified in the same way France 's south-eastern frontier . |
| 4 | The familiar is suddenly seen in a new way ; the student 's core discipline is illuminated under a different cognitive perspective . |
| 5 | Wit often depends on the use of a single word perhaps used in an unusual way . |
| 6 | They ca n't even pick up just the words that are English words only pronounced in the Orcadian way . |
| 7 | Hence they have only contributed in a limited way to post-war housing , but they have been a major feature of a commitment to planned decentralization , even though , as Aldridge ( 1979 ) concludes , by the end it was a programme without a policy . |
| 8 | And her suppliant 's face , round and even in this twilight , thickly flushed in the hectic way that he had seen before , repulsed him and made him take her by the arm she had raised and move it like a detached limb back to her side . |
| 9 | For example , in many classrooms pupils can be found discussing the differences in vocabulary there would be between an on-the-spot oral account of a road accident and a newspaper report of it the following day ; or considering the ways in which conventional spellings can be violated in advertisements and brand names ; or listing some of the differences between their grandparents ' use of language and their own ; or talking about the way a poet 's choice of metaphor yokes together two dissimilar things so that something familiar is suddenly perceived in a new way ; and so on . |
| 10 | He looked up fast , extremely pleased in a philanthropic way but still hanging back for himself . |
| 11 | ALTHOUGH I welcome any move towards a more open society I am a little disturbed by the relentless way in which childhood is being forced to be politically correct . |
| 12 | Also , even when modern composers do write melody , it is rarely presented in a straightforward way which can be regarded as a model . |
| 13 | Until very recently professional sportsmen have been regarded by directors as skilled workmen ; footballers ' incomes were not calculated in the same way as transfer fees according to market value but in relation to what other working-class men could expect to earn . |
| 14 | I sincerely hope that Mrs. X 's complaint was not treated in a dismissive way because , as she readily admitted , she was drunk at the time of the assault . |
| 15 | Despite introducing some dynamic elements into the discussion , these are not treated in a formal way . |
| 16 | At the ‘ top ’ are the Town Boys , a group of older boys and young men who , while not waving banners or making the most noise , are nevertheless treated in a deferential way by other subgroups . |
| 17 | There is a danger that the size of the NHS will again produce a range of systems and , subsequently , years of argument as to whether the data deriving from one system can truly be compared with another system because the items included are not common or are not grouped in the same way . |
| 18 | The New Zealander had kicked off two robbery attempts , catching one man in the face , before his trousers were finally slashed in a similar way to mine . |
| 19 | I 'm sure they 'll hasten to say , not reduced , just done in a different way , but shall I ask |
| 20 | He had thought that children were supposed to be sharp and un-sentimental and though Emmie had not written in a sentimental way exactly , she had written about her family as if they were perfect . |
| 21 | Have your detective say it is very important to tell whether something is or is not done in a certain way ; then show that thing being done in either of the ways mentioned ; but immediately before that happens put in , quite boldly , what it is you want to slip past your reader . |
| 22 | My Lord erm just to sweep up one or two of the other , very briefly the points my learned friend has just raised , erm I , I think it follows that our provisional position at the moment is that we think that reference is probably more satisfactory than simply going to the commission , what went , if your Lordship went to the commission and then found that they were unsatisfactory or did n't really take matters further , for one of the reasons it might very well not , is because the original complaint put to the commission was not framed in the same way as the defence and counterclaim are now framed , er there 's been a very considerable amount of refinement , both parties would no doubt wish to put submissions into the commission as to how the answer should be put or to provide information so the commission can answer them and so on and so forth and it may not be any quicker doing it that way |
| 23 | ‘ Once I had realized that Tenison , the consulting engineer , was not spelt in the same way as Tennyson , our late-lamented poet Laureate , I had no difficulty . ’ |
| 24 | Firstly , as we have earlier shown , old people are not valued in the same way as children ; their suffering does not pull at the public heart-strings so strongly . |
| 25 | But not s not so No the the stuff is not sold in the same way . |
| 26 | Furthermore , it appears that the distinction is not drawn in the same way in all areas where it is used . |
| 27 | As with so many armorial terms the word ‘ quarterings ’ is not used in a conventional way and applied to a shield divided merely into four ; indeed there can be as many ‘ quarterings ’ as there are family affiliations — perhaps the record is held by the five-surnamed Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville family , whose full achievement of arms boasts 719 quarterings . |
| 28 | The information contained in such sources is not used in the same way as that in a formally refereed and conventionally published journal article , and citations of such sources may be omitted . |
| 29 | Where speed restraint measures are built , the cycle lane can be carried outside them to ensure that bikes are not slowed in the same way as cars ( Figure 6.26 ) . |
| 30 | Since he was not born in the ordinary way , Adam would not have needed one , but the general assumption was that as a man he had a navel . |