Example sentences of "the [noun] [verb] [art] [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | The youngsters , accompanied by three members of staff , were taking the opportunity to experience an English way of life , visiting Oxford , London and local sights , including Jane Austen 's house at Chawton . |
| 2 | By ‘ the law ’ , the writer means a whole way of living . |
| 3 | " The grave seems a long way off . " |
| 4 | The possibility of anything like that happening to the Germans seemed a long way off in those days . |
| 5 | Baldwin then made no demur against the Chancellor 's recommendation ; there would have been a greater chance of his demurring had the decision gone the other way , not because of his views but because of his admiration and affection for Montagu Norman , the intellectually certain Governor of the Bank of England . |
| 6 | The Rules indicate no other way of enforcement . |
| 7 | The only exception is Moses and in Moses as Kirsty says , the story seems the wrong way round . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | well even the cars going the other way are going faster so what the fuck |
| 10 | If the chemical diffuses a long way it is more like shouting and a larger number of cells could receive the signal . |
| 11 | If the wind blew to the South-East they would be mostly in the U.S.S.R. … if the wind blew the other way they would extend well back up into Western Europe . ’ |
| 12 | In leafy Whitegate Drive : the car faces the wrong way for the official photographer . |
| 13 | The cell developed a new way of consuming oxygen to make carbon dioxide and water to release energy . |
| 14 | On this basis , it is suggested that the test offers a valid way of screening for linguistic disorders . |
| 15 | Harnessing the natural radiant energy of the sun seems an obvious way to cut down on ever-increasing fuel bills . |
| 16 | Nearly all the readings of the printed version are either musically superior to those in the theatre score , or result from octave transposition — necessary at one point to avoid an unplayable bottom B' B♭ occasioned by downward transposition from G to F. ( A change would have been unnecessary had the transposition gone the other way . ) |
| 17 | Grey suits were conspicuous by their absence , though the Beatles emulated the corporate way in one respect — the 15 directors were all men . |
| 18 | Thus the Act goes a long way in smoothing the path of the prosecutor . |
| 19 | The Advisory Committee on Legal Education and Conduct was set up under the Act to examine the practical way in which reform could be carried out . |
| 20 | I think very often the influence goes the other way . |
| 21 | Traditionally , I always feel that the influence goes the other way . |
| 22 | ‘ The boy drove the whole way to Dublin on his half day to bring you home and then drove straight back and said you had to see another doctor . |
| 23 | It is then that you find and join the Bisus to learn the old ways of magic . |
| 24 | Attempting to stop the rotation directly may make matters worse , since you may well push the rudder stick the wrong way . |
| 25 | Cos he wou his reaction time , understandably , cos he was n't expecting it , ce happened like that and hi his reaction time was too slow to compensate for the stupidity of the bloke coming the other way . |
| 26 | Laing wanted to make such a good job of the London factory that the reverse would be the case — that the Americans would want to cross the Atlantic to inspect the exemplary way the British ran things . |
| 27 | At first , the war seemed a long way away , and the Otago CA reported that the 1914–15 summer promised to be a most successful one , with the ‘ services of world-renowned player , J.N. Crawford ’ ensuring that Otago cricket would be second to none in New Zealand . |
| 28 | The guests looked the other way and talked more loudly . |
| 29 | By respecting these freedoms , the law upholds the right to choose a particular way of life . |
| 30 | 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 ! |