Example sentences of "[conj] [art] [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Actually , I think the woman was envious that I was sexy and Max was cute — or the other way round ! ’ |
| 2 | He recognizes in Raskolnikov a fellow-struggler , and repeatedly he says that the two of them are birds of a feather ; but he also bids him farewell with a pointed ‘ You to the right and I to the left , or the other way round if you like ’ towards the end of their final meeting , because setting off for America , unlike the North Pole , while it may or may not amount to doing anything ( Crime and Punishment does n't raise the question ) marks a parting of their ways . |
| 3 | Even his way of throwing his money about , what he has of it , is immediately distinguishable from Svidrigailov 's , while with both of them money is the very image of merely imputed and therefore reversible value in a loose-end world : ‘ You to the right and I to the left , or the other way round if you like . ’ |
| 4 | As a manager I have to judge whether a young band 's professional tail is wagging the domestic dog or the other way round . |
| 5 | If Angela Brickell had seduced him — or the other way round — and she threatened a messy paternity suit … |
| 6 | I am not sure if this is a case of Nature following Art , or the other way round , but the result is most satisfactory . |
| 7 | Yet this same student may be quite good at translating from French to English or the other way round and may have a certain knowledge of the history of French literature and the critical points to be made about specified French texts . |
| 8 | A previous eldest may now be youngest , or the other way round . |
| 9 | Imperial Guards must already have encountered the rebel Planetary Defence Force — or the other way about . |
| 10 | Usually , there is no great difficulty in translating from a description using predicates to one using functions , or the other way round . |
| 11 | It may be that exports are forging ahead whilst home sales sag — or the other way round . |
| 12 | ‘ Or the other way round , ’ said Sacco , staring into the fox-haunted darkness . |
| 13 | Yes I think it says it 's Edinburgh in the front and Glasgow on the back or the other way round |
| 14 | And would you say from one of those cards , you found out that was er an associate of or the other way round ? |
| 15 | You have to do the detail sequence er so for the tank farm this is , here I 've got to do the formwork before the reinforcement before the concrete or the other way round , I 've got to the reinforcement before the formwork before the concrete . |
| 16 | Now policemen , we used to have to give these blessed people these tickets , and we used to have a book , and they just merely gave name , age , occupation , which was nearly always labourer , where , and they had to tell us where they came from and where they intended going to , and more often that was from Stowmarket to , or the other way round . |
| 17 | Yes , what going towards the post or the other way ? |
| 18 | And the idea here was that one would be for incoming goods , and one would be for empty wagons or the other way round , er going out . |
| 19 | A confrontation between William Thomson and T. H. Huxley was good to watch , and showed that scientists did not always agree , even about what was evidence or the right way to argue : while evolution in the last thirty years of the century was generally accepted , there was no agreement about times and processes . |
| 20 | The 10th , 14th and 27th are departure points , whether this means leaving the past behind in a literal or a figurative way . |
| 21 | I can not promise to make you into a world authority on ingredients , but I do hope to share my passion for good food with you , and to inspire you to try a different type of tea or a new way of serving pasta . |
| 22 | In fact , a new career opening or a new way of life altogether is on offer around the 29th which ca n't be refused . |
| 23 | When I look at a natural object for a long time , like looking into the burning embers and the flames of a fire , there appears a new vision or facet of that object or a new way of seeing it in relationship to some other world of thought . |
| 24 | Is it a stylishly cute picture of a rhinocerous or a clever way of pushing young people into smoking . |
| 25 | The ownership of newspapers has rarely been seen as either an easy or a sure way of acquiring fortunes . |
| 26 | In the middle , they can offer a non-permanent alternative to dado rails , providing a separation for one or two different wallcoverings , or a useful way of relieving small patterns . |
| 27 | All too often advice is taken as being definitive when in truth it is cased only on one person 's experience , or a particular way of working . |
| 28 | There are two types of patentable invention , a product invention and a process invention , and it has been said that an invention is a new way of making something old or an old way of making something new . |
| 29 | Of course the debate in government and Parliament was crucial but it was not the only way in which the educational reform was tested at the time nor the only way to assess it later . |
| 30 | Barred galaxies have been recognized as a separate class of galaxies since the 1920s , and in 1964 de Vaucouleurs suggested that the Milky Way contains a bar to explain the observed noncircular motions of the atomic gas at the centre . |