Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] way [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a rather embarrassed way he told Seddon that I was in his office , and asked for instructions . |
| 2 | you see , so it might be worked just better that way he said , so let Sue have the Monday off . |
| 3 | In a somewhat schematic way it is possible , I think , to distinguish three main phases in the development of modern social movements . |
| 4 | So either way I go , it 's likely to be unpopular with the other section . ’ |
| 5 | But positivity can be interpreted in so many ways it leaves plenty of scope for individual expression . ’ |
| 6 | Aubrey seemed to think … and I can see that in so many ways it would be a far better match for you . |
| 7 | There were so many ways she wanted to tell him this , all of them inadequate to express her feelings . |
| 8 | Now because I 'll leave that for a moment right , so one way we may test the structural change , right , is to construct what 's called a dummy variable and a dummy variables in a wide variety of applications they can be used to er get rid of er outlying observations , very very high or very very low observations . |
| 9 | So one way we could write it we could sort of use algebra could n't we ? |
| 10 | If we have been indirectly responsible for a death , there is only one way we can make amends . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ There 's only one way we 're going to find out , my girl , ’ said Charlie , not budging an inch . |
| 12 | There was one way , however , only one way he could make sure no life was lost apart from his own . |
| 13 | He himself , by his own self justifying account , was giving the President the facts and pointing out the alternatives ; North , speaking the language of military tactics , was for ‘ boxing him in so there 's only one way he can go — the right way . ’ |
| 14 | Now there is only one way I can do eyebrows , and that 's if the person lies on my lap . |
| 15 | So there is only one way I could have lived in other centuries . ’ |
| 16 | And there was only one way she could think of to do that . |
| 17 | Since she had been working more or less at full stretch before she 'd been given the extra work to do , there was only one way she could fit more work into her day , and that was by working late at the office , then going home with a bulging briefcase . |
| 18 | There 's only one way you can cripple a bad scientist , and that 's to demonstrate how bad his science is . |
| 19 | And I know only one way you do that . |
| 20 | huh , I could n't believe it , I mean he 's been that thick and she says how old are you and he says thirty five , when she 's gone , when he 's gone she said blimey I thought he was forty five did n't ya ? , she said yeah , I said he ai n't wearing very well is he ? , then this woman come in and she was , she 'd had an operation and one of her stitches had n't dissolved and she said I have a shower instead of a bath , perhaps that 's why and Sue says yes that 's why because you need water to dissolve a stitch , so any way she said to her how old are you , she says thirty seven and Sue says |
| 21 | I 'm saying there 's only two ways you can do it in this country unless is to stop on the dole and . |
| 22 | Er and this this case the there was a fire in a flat , the chap had gone out to work , we did n't know he 'd gone out to work , so we broke First of all we informed the fire brigade was on the way , we broke down the door , quick look in the flat , best possible way we could look , and the fire brigade turned up and dealt with the flat . |
| 23 | Oh : car of menace , car of blight Cars the atmosphere ignite Greenhouse warming , Havoc forming Parkinson must see us right We 're au fait with entropy Gaia , Ecosphere , synergy Words for greening But their meaning 's A linguistic mystery Oh : politicians must invent Worship of environment Genuflecting by reflecting Words of verdant bafflement Now our water 's unfit to drink Too much aluminium and zinc No solution To pollution No-one can stand the stink Oh : public filth and pestilence Highlights private opulence Does the glitter , clear the litter All it needs is pounds and pence GOD REST YE MERRY God rest ye merry , gentle Greens Let nothing you dismay The much foretold apocalypse Is now well under way Not even Mr Gorbachev Can stop the world 's decay Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh , tidings of comfort and joy We ca n't eat meat or hens or fish The farming is too cruel The only food we now permit Is foul organic gruel Irradiated food and veg Now double up as fuel Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Now everybody wants a car Though noise and fumes are vile The Iron Curtain fractures and The jams stretch back for miles Mobility and liberty Can not be reconciled Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy We think that greenhouse warming will Bring on the world 's demise If forests burn it 's not just trees but mankind too that fries But all this may be garbage Because scientists tell lies Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Consumers must buy less to reach Sustainability For galloping consumption is More lethal than TB So much for Third World dreams of fleeing Grinding poverty Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Unless we stop producing kids The planet will not cope No hope for birth controllers short of Kidnapping the Pope But since the Greens recycle people they May turn us into soap Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy In searching for clean energy The choice is pretty stark The floods that come when coal is burnt will keep us in the Ark But had Lord Marshall got his way We 'd all glow in the dark Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Dumb animals are much preferrred To flawed humanity Ill-treatment of old people may Provoke insanity But culling seals and whales is judged The worst profanity Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Now Mrs Thatcher goes bright green A highly suspect hue Her policies have after all Kept filth and squalor blue It 's just another way she 's found To tell us what to do Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy With greenhouse gases , PCBs Sulphuric acid rain This fragile globe 's environment Is going down the drain It is a cosmic punishment That we ca n't start again Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Melanie Phillips OVERNIGHT FILE |
| 24 | What an astonishingly long way he 's come , eh readers ? |
| 25 | There was just one way he , as a man who had risen to eminence in his profession , had learned to do things . |
| 26 | We deny that we have been disdainful of patients : we were investigating a concern expressed by them in the most objective way we could . |
| 27 | I mean , I can remember seeing an interview with er , John Geilgud and he 'd he 'd done Hamlet many years ago and er but he said he 'd it was in a totally different way you know , different |
| 28 | Last October George Bush was asked to sign a bill that tried to restore things to the more liberal way they were between 1971 and 1989 . |
| 29 | In a more obvious way they are prone to compulsive banter . |
| 30 | In this research , the investigator plans to study the possibility that adults on occasion expect young children to behave as if they already have an accurate conception of the process of communication , and that as a result of being expected to behave in this more mature way they come to realise why that behaviour is appropriate . |