Example sentences of "[adv] the other way " in BNC.
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| 1 | But how strange it was , the changes which the past two or three weeks had brought : not merely the changes of circumstances ; her father and his hoped for promotion , herself going to the Stadium , Omi talking about herself , Fritz … but the whole relationship inside the family had altered , and she herself had changed , and it had begun with the arrival of Uncle Karl , as if he were a sorcerer , a wave of whose manicured hands could transform life , as alchemists thought they could transform base metal into gold or , with a certain sinister frisson , perhaps the other way around . |
| 2 | And as for the light coming from the rear , the same sort of thing happened — only the other way round : for them the humps and dips were spread out . ’ |
| 3 | So the sharing 's a bit like doing the times only the other way round is n't it like doing it backwards . |
| 4 | Oh this is just exactly the same only the other way round . |
| 5 | In higher education , it is entirely the other way around . |
| 6 | ‘ It was entirely the other way round . |
| 7 | It 's generally the other way round ; lass ; it 's them at the other end of the Feltons ' fists who generally land up here . |
| 8 | and you can turn over one way or you can turn over the other way . |
| 9 | It is the Americans who remake foreign films , not the other way round . |
| 10 | Without denying the great efforts made by the local council and others to improve the estate , it is they who chose not to co-operate with police , not the other way round . |
| 11 | His teaching was a challenge to Christians , more radical than it seemed : ‘ The state is there for man , not the other way round , the socialist order is there for man , not the other way round . ’ |
| 12 | His teaching was a challenge to Christians , more radical than it seemed : ‘ The state is there for man , not the other way round , the socialist order is there for man , not the other way round . ’ |
| 13 | Franco-German battles are fought with press release , not tank division , and the general idea is to keep the Huns firmly inside French territory — not the other way round . |
| 14 | For their money , they got traditional advice — Gover would always try to get batsmen to live up to the technical ideal of Jack Hobbs — put in an unstuffy and flexible way : ‘ We would fit the mould to the customers , not the other way round . ’ |
| 15 | Commercial banks everywhere are realising that profitable banks may become big , but not the other way round . |
| 16 | Hundreds of books have been written on the transition from capitalism to communism , but not the other way . |
| 17 | They are still close to their banks , but the bankers kowtow to them , not the other way around . |
| 18 | Do n't forget , it 's you that 's schooling the horse , not the other way round . |
| 19 | Why not the other way round ? ’ |
| 20 | They failed to see that money came from success , not the other way round — Chelsea , for instance , had also paid large sums for players without creating a championship team — and that the vital factor was the genius of the manager in charge for getting the most out of his players , whatever they cost , and for buying the right man . |
| 21 | The faint waft of the regiment of unwashed drifted down the carriage as he carried on his harangue , vouchsafing the information that his wife had divorced him , not the other way round . |
| 22 | In the second place , the modal meaning is derivable from the canonical lexical meaning but not the other way round . |
| 23 | A High Court action needs to be a team effort between the client and his solicitor and barrister , otherwise the action tends to run the client and not the other way round . |
| 24 | The film 's main assets are Croft and Tiernan , both young enough to ignore the weight of Shakespeare 's name and get on with acting — they put their words at the service of fresh emotions , not the other way round . |
| 25 | ‘ ICAO is the servant of its member States ’ , was my approach — not the other way round . |
| 26 | Where there were examples of co-residence , the joint household had been established some years before the elderly person needed physical care , and a number of these households had been created by the younger generation(s) moving in with the parent , not the other way round . |
| 27 | I ca n't live off my mother and my younger brother : I 'm supposed to look after them and not the other way round . |
| 28 | When he entertained them to dinner , they travelled to his apartment at Buckingham Palace , not the other way around . |
| 29 | The all-important notion of the dreamwork involves an assumption about the function of dreaming ( and possibly of consciousness in general ) — that the dream is controlling the subject 's psychological state , and not the other way round . |
| 30 | To revert to what is fundamental , the distinction made by the two conditionals gives some clear sense to our saying that causal circumstances explain effects , and make them happen , and not the other way on . |