Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most tax efficient way of repaying a mortgage is the pension mortgage . |
| 2 | A little goes that way and then a very small amount goes that way . |
| 3 | To judge from the surviving traces , this applies more especially to communities which in the course of the last five millennia have dragged themselves from the morass of primitive communism and set their feet on ground firm enough to support civilized ways of life . |
| 4 | If that is how we still feel , then we must recognise that we can only think this way because the Enemy is not threatening us . |
| 5 | It was on the agenda and at seven o'clock the at night they eh they adjourned the meeting cos they only got half way through the agenda |
| 6 | As with de Santillana 's innovatory essay Kemp 's book not only offers new ways of understanding the history of science and the history of art but it also raises a host of historical and historiographical questions . |
| 7 | If you carefully plan a new health regime that slowly introduces slight modifications to your usual meals , perhaps to try different ways of cooking food , to have slightly larger portions of vegetables and fruit , you will eventually find that your food preferences change slightly , enough to tip the balance from an unhealthy diet ( too high in fat and sugar , too low in fibre ) , to a healthy one that will help you attain and then maintain a slim figure . |
| 8 | And — to cap it all — there is no source of drinking water on the island — unless you are clever enough to find some way of catching and storing rain when it falls , which it does almost every day . |
| 9 | He could n't see much hope that way . |
| 10 | Through research and development , Rentokil is constantly seeking new ways to provide more and better services to protect health and the environment . |
| 11 | It merely seemed that way yesterday . |
| 12 | It 's only got 4 ways . |
| 13 | I 'd only got half way and I heard the row going on , so I cut across and met them . |
| 14 | Packages which checked your spelling , for example , in something you 've put on and very politely suggested that you may or may not have got a word quite correctly spelt that you had intended perhaps spelt one way , it came out as another way , and there must be an awful lot of work going on in this area . |
| 15 | Looking back , that square was my gateway to the real world — and the gate could only work one way . |
| 16 | Indeed before we even come to the characterization of characters within the drama we find the poem itself being apparently characterized one way but then characterized another in the opening three stanzas : ( As I travelled along a path I heard the tale of one , a spirited man , and proud ; he was wise in learning and splendid under his clothes , and clothed in fine array . |
| 17 | It had only sounded that way to his western ears — because the words had been Chinese ! |
| 18 | Rather than moving towards the much vaunted Japanese way of doing things , America is moving in the opposite direction . |
| 19 | I could feel an awful churning going on down there , and I was sure it would only end one way , but I could n't move . |
| 20 | He did not know why he suddenly felt this way ; he was not angry with himself , or with us , and he was not crying . |
| 21 | it went they were racing like that , and a car come that way , so went that way |
| 22 | It showed up in the scan — one child in three , they say , is now born with some imperfection or other , mostly minor , sometimes major , and whether that 's due to pollution , or insecticides , or growth hormones , or radon gas , or nuclear power plants , take your choice , take your pick : and whatever the cause , the mothers stay healthy enough , are sufficiently medicated one way or another to bring babies to term — and we all said to Edie , what 's a missing leg ? |
| 23 | I 'd better go another way home , the long way round . |
| 24 | The real interview may run a very different course from the one you anticipated , and you do not want to develop the subconscious belief that it can only go one way . |
| 25 | The rat could only go one way , burrowing its way out through the living flesh . ’ |
| 26 | well that 's what I said , you can only go one way |
| 27 | Apart from the fact that I 'd put my make-up on badly in my haste , I looked fairly normal — a bit flushed , maybe , and my eyes seemed unusually bright , but perhaps they only looked that way to me . |
| 28 | The rowing boat near the weir — only this time they had gone too far and Uncle Albert was not strong enough to row them back to safety ; the study at Uncle Albert 's house looking warm and friendly and inviting ; the professor beetle shouting rude instructions at some little beetles that had got into difficulty ; again a glimpse of her uncle 's study ; then a turnstile — one of those that only turn one way , so once you have passed through it you ca n't get back ; playful light beams now shrieking with fear as they hurtle past the window to their destruction ; walking up the down-escalator and not being able to get anywhere ; yet another brief snatch of the study … |
| 29 | Since I can find no copy in such sources as Book Auction Records bearing any other date , I am happy to accept Plomer ; and , since I am not much troubled one way or the other , Partington will pass muster without further investigation . |
| 30 | The first two examples discussed below illustrate different ways in which the linguistic model is used to develop a narrative model , and the third , Genette 's Narrative Discourse ( which does not use strictly linguistic analytical categories ) , illustrates somewhat differently the structuralist preoccupation with abstract models rather than with individual texts . |