Example sentences of "not the way " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ That 's not the way you do catering properly . |
2 | This was not the way to behave . |
3 | ‘ It was in me to beat him but not the way they wanted me to fight . ’ |
4 | London is not the way it is through sheer inertia and accident . |
5 | But it became clear that was not the way to hold our own against companies like Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Cola , or Mars on the confectionery side . |
6 | I had a little pirate operation , which is not the way to make friends or win races . |
7 | ‘ Only that the place was never kept decently as far as I could see , not the way a gentleman 's house should be . |
8 | ‘ He very politely pointed out in each case , ’ recalled Mountbatten , ‘ that it was not the way he would have phrased it , and so it remained virtually unchanged . |
9 | So Charles had the will but not the way and called on his friend Lady Salisbury to help . |
10 | The irony is that , despite the hype , that was not the way it was planned , and there were snags from early on . |
11 | Restricting competition is not the way to make industry more competitive |
12 | That was not the way that our ancestors looked at the matter . |
13 | ‘ His work is about narcissism , but not the way we normally use that term , which is when someone is narcissistic , it means they 're self-involved . |
14 | That is not the way . |
15 | His passport carries the word ‘ courtier ’ in the space set aside for occupation — a joke he came to regret when arriving at Darwin airport to be faced by a massive , bronzed Australian immigration official who looked down and told him ‘ that 's not the way you spell courier , mate . ’ |
16 | Just saying , ‘ Crisis , what crisis ? is not the way to do it . |
17 | I say to the orchestra , this is not the way ; you must think of the last bars as a fermata , a fermata that lasts the entire length of the coda . |
18 | I agree it 's not the way I planned in those remote days when I imagined one could keep to plans . |
19 | But that 's not the way the trust is set up . |
20 | Apart from the fact that it 's not the way we like our work to come to us , it has provided some other difficulties . |
21 | ‘ … and that 's not the way … not the way I do business . ’ |
22 | ‘ … and that 's not the way … not the way I do business . ’ |
23 | Not the way it is today , when on the rare occasion an employee accompanies a guest here , he is likely to be some newcomer who has little to say about anything other than Association Football , and who prefers to pass the evening not by the fire of the servants ' hall , but drinking at the Ploughman 's Arms — or indeed , as seems increasingly likely nowadays , at the Star Inn . |
24 | This was not the way in which Jesus was a giver . |
25 | This is not the way to the ladies room in the Kingshouse Hotel . |
26 | This is not the way to the ladies room in the Kingshouse Hotel either . |
27 | I ca n't tell him now — not the way things are at present . ’ |
28 | Neither gentleman is likely to be pleased ; this is not the way to make friends and influence people . |
29 | No , that is not the way . ’ |
30 | ‘ At least not the way you think . ’ |