Example sentences of "[verb] the only way " in BNC.
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| 1 | The answer is that managerial hierarchy is and will remain the only way to structure unified working systems with hundreds , thousands or tens of thousands of employees , for the very good reason that managerial hierarchy is the expression of two fundamental characteristics of real work . |
| 2 | Then it became the only way to work : shut mother out , shut out her demands , her outrages , concentrate , work . |
| 3 | Mr Whitehouse reads the letters : someone called John Huntley , a model , gained the confidence to enter his profession through Mr McLean 's kindness ; Janice Joyce , who knew McLean at the Hippodrome , thinks the only way Lenny could really kill anyone would be by making them laugh . |
| 4 | Well he thinks the only way that modern will accept the rule of one person rather than another is if they think they 're somehow there as a result of their own action , so we 'll only accept the rule of erm our leaders if we think we put them there and we take them back again , we put them there and can recall them and this for Barry is the only merit that contemporary democratic policy democratic erm systems that it allows us to think of our rulers as having some legitimate claim to rule . |
| 5 | In short , ‘ it offers the only way of experiencing essence ’ . |
| 6 | I mean the only way measure it I suppose is by talking to them . |
| 7 | Why what a er what about doing taking it out of er I mean the only way is taking out |
| 8 | You probably wo n't be surprised to learn then , that those past masters of glam-drag dressing-up , Marc Bolan and Adam Ant , are two of Justin 's heroes , whom he says came from ‘ an underground scene but realised the only way to put their music across , to really entertain people , is to get right out there in the main arena . ’ |
| 9 | There is some danger of this position becoming the only way that you can fly the model , with other positions or attitudes becoming increasingly difficult . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The mechanics say the only way any but the most modern of engines will run smoothly with unleaded is a full internal conversion costing more than £300 . |
| 12 | Beauracrats , teachers and pupils say the only way parents can judge a school is to go and take a look at it |
| 13 | Insurers say the only way to prevent attacks is to make schools totally vandal and arson proof . |
| 14 | so these local experts , you ca n't believe what they say the only way really is to , the scriptures do n't they say give us an accurate er description of what 's |
| 15 | The canoe of Edwards and Mangnall — 200 miles to the west of the Commander — found the only way to escape the playful attentions of porpoises was to stop paddling . |
| 16 | I 've seen enough violence in my life to know the only way I can deal it out is in sudden fast dollops — a well-aimed kick or punch , a gun if I have to . |
| 17 | Now Dr Winfield — and I have ratified this — made 127 sorties ; he could not have enjoyed his period at the Institute very much because he never seemed to he there , But he would come on a station with some project he wanted to fully research and he believed the only way to fully research these things was to " try them out on the dog " . |
| 18 | However , on the last service I had to check the tappets — after removing the rocker cover the only way I could turn the engine over was to put the car in gear and push it backwards . |
| 19 | His road back to traditionalism could appear the only way to escape a theological disintegration which threatened not just Vatican I , but Chalcedon and Nicaea as well . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ It seemed the only way to avoid a huge argument . ’ |
| 22 | This exhibition had received little attention in the press , though l'Autorité and Paris Journal had referred to it as an ‘ exhibition of Fauves and Cubists ’ no doubt through a confusion of terms , but also partly because this seemed the only way of describing the manifold tendencies represented , which were as divergent as at Brussels . |
| 23 | D says the only way to do it is civil disobedience ( counter-opinion ) ; |
| 24 | For those seeking help , the cure might seem drastic — like Alcoholics Anonymous , the group says the only way to beat the addiction is total abstinence ! |
| 25 | Round-table talks , or a coalition government , or both , look the only way out . |
| 26 | Crosby , battling on with only a one-year-contract and persistent speculation about his future , reckons the only way to silence the gossips is by climbing into the promotion frame . |
| 27 | The success achieved with children incorporates these and can become the only way of dealing with children . |
| 28 | The Commission argues that switching from zero-rating to tax-paid exports would provide the only way of scrapping checks on traders at borders without inviting fraud on a massive scale . |
| 29 | Both men know the only way ahead to avoid a national racial bloodbath is to get together and start talking again . |
| 30 | Maybe he figured the only way to get her off his back was to confess . |