Example sentences of "putting it [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And that gave me a terrible feeling , I just did n't know what to , whether to you know , you was sad and yet you felt wild at them putting it that way . |
| 2 | If you invested a pound on a horse , then the amount of money you 'd expect to get back would depend on the odds that that horse was offered at , but if you confined yourself to horses that had a reasonable chance of winning , say , the sort of horses that tend to be offered at odds of , say , six or seven to one or better , then your average rate of return might be nearer ninety per cent than thirty per cent , so putting it one way betting a pound a week on the horses is a slower way of losing your money than betting a pound a week on football pools , but football pools gives you a much greater chance of winning an absolutely astonishing sum of money . |
| 3 | Putting it another way , an individual that succeeded in persuading its partner to play the female most of the time would gain all the benefits of ‘ her ’ economic investment in eggs , while ‘ he ’ has resources left over to spend on other things , for instance on mating with other fish . |
| 4 | Better try putting it another way round . |
| 5 | Or , putting it another way , it describes the symptoms , the effects , rather than the cause . |
| 6 | Putting it another way , movement of goods , services and so forth across the English Channel ought ideally to be no different to movement from England to Wales . |
| 7 | So , putting it another way , you do n't agree with the principle of a new settlement , but if it happened to be found elsewhere , other than Hambledon , you 'd let it ride ? |
| 8 | The fact that other parties respond at just these code switch points suggests that they represent the boundaries of salient categories within the talk — or putting it another way , that they represent the participants ' perceptions of the relevant sections of talk which require or permit a response — even where these boundaries do not correspond with any syntactic boundary . |