Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] [prep] the [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | A feeling began to emerge that the advantages of the new approach might be long- rather than short-term , but the dichotomy between wanting to work in the new way because of its potential advantages and ‘ Are we ever going to get the syllabus done ? ’ continued to be problematic . |
| 2 | Sure , there are differences , they 've got this one-eyed machine and so on , but basically it 's the same thing , and we even tell them it 's going to end in the same way with the raft capsizing . |
| 3 | But on the other hand it 's just another part of the learning curve that these lads are having to go through the hard way — in international rugby rather than before they reach that level . |
| 4 | I would like you to watch me interview him ’ — immediately lets the class off the hook of having to participate in the normal way . |
| 5 | Though explicitly Christian , ‘ Journey of the Magi ’ forms between the earlier and later work a bridge over which the reader ( with access to the gospel word ) may cross into the release of Christianity , the new birth ; but , denied that access , the speaker of the poem can only seek relief in death to escape from having to return to the old way in which he is ‘ no longer at ease ’ . |
| 6 | I was trying to think in the correct way about right and wrong as I travelled home last night . |
| 7 | But instead of trying to adapt to the British way of life he rebelled against it and reverted to his African heritage . |