Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] [prep] a [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | The outrage eagerly orchestrated by the newspaper did not focus in a serious way on the needs and dangers facing rape survivors . |
| 2 | Returning to the argument in The Future of an Illusion an imaginary antagonist argues that civilization depends upon people continuing to believe in God , otherwise they will not act in a moral way . |
| 3 | However , their memories do not work in a logical way like ours , but in an emotional fashion and by association . |
| 4 | More and more money from public taxation has been put in to such services one way or another , yet the services still do not work in a foolproof way , for a number of practical reasons . |
| 5 | If you yourself do not know what you want out of the meeting you can hardly be surprised if the person you are dealing with does not respond in a satisfactory way . |
| 6 | The latter may not realise in a coherent way what is afoot , but it knows that the duty of a government is to provide law and order and senses that it is not deploying its resources to do so . |
| 7 | A Cartesian reflex model holds that behaviour will be constant in a constant environment or , if not constant , it will not change in a predictable way . |
| 8 | I am rather keen , and I 'm sure you are rather keen , that it should not end in a shabby way . ’ |
| 9 | Since speakers do not alternate in a patterned way between [ h ] and [ ? ] in stressed syllables , the phonological unit /h/ is simply irrelevant to any account of variation in these areas . |
| 10 | It did not expand in a big way until the late eighteenth century when population growth and parliamentary enclosure depressed the standard of living of the poorest sections of rural society . |
| 11 | I mean , we do make all sorts of allowances with exams you know , people repeat words and th and they can leave words out and they ca n't think of a eloquent way of expressing that something at the spur of the moment so it 's |
| 12 | It did n't speak in a natural way as modern computers do . |
| 13 | I do n't mean in a bad way , just different . |
| 14 | He does n't come with a judgemental way . |