Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] the way " in BNC.
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| 1 | When it was discovered that a member of the Immigration Department was in the National Front his seniors merely glossed over it , saying that he was not a permanent member and in any case it did not affect the way he carried out his duties . |
| 2 | A difference in age or gender between speakers of English , for example , may or may not affect the way things are said , whereas in Urdu , such differences are always reflected . |
| 3 | There are many surplus buildings in Liverpool , but that does not affect the way in which the local authority can carry out necessary improvements , particularly to inner-city schools . |
| 4 | Other world is the half of your world which few mortals enter , for they do not know the way ; and it is ruled by powers of light . |
| 5 | The young man admitted in due course , when we had been driving for an hour , that he did not know the way and was totally lost . |
| 6 | Here they were hammering with a monotonous beat , the voices high but soft , small boys staring at her as she looked at them in panic , realising she did not know the way out of the maze of streets and could not ask . |
| 7 | ‘ You would not believe the way French cultural tsars try to meddle in the musical life of the country . |
| 8 | She could not believe the way she had behaved with Felipe , and she did n't blame him at all . |
| 9 | Steve Jones believes that if you do not believe the way he believes , then you will go to hell . |
| 10 | He further asserts that during the nineteenth century litigants did not understand the way courts worked and were in awe of their proceedings , and that the intermediaries between litigants and justice , lawyers , court officials and petition-drawers , had little sympathy with or understanding for the average Sri Lankan . |
| 11 | And he can not understand the way the education system in Britain , once admired across the world , has been allowed to rot . |
| 12 | She did not like the way he 'd dismissed Nathan in order to talk to her . |
| 13 | But she did not like the way his eye followed a pretty girl , nor the way theirs could sometimes follow him . |
| 14 | Last Suspect , an inveterate tail-swisher , often used to sulk and pull himself up if he did not like the way a race seemed to be going . |
| 15 | The author does not like the way science has ‘ stacked the deck ’ in its own favour , arranging its metaphors to exclude the contradictory or ephemeral . |
| 16 | As the garrison watched him from the shelter of the verandah they could tell that the rain was having a bad effect on him ; he clearly did not like the way it beat on his head and shoulders raising a fine spray ; nor did he seem partial to the way it poured down the neck of his shirt and coursed down his trouser legs . |
| 17 | ‘ Thank you both , ’ Beth told them , at the same time stepping between the men and Cissie ; she did not like the way the younger man was regarding the girl . |
| 18 | ‘ Well , what does it do ? ’ asked Fenella , who was by no means sure about trusting an enchantment and who did not like the way Goibniu and Fiachra Broadcrown were flipping coins and chuckling sinisterly over the results . |
| 19 | They remind us that this is the very beginning of the idea of representing the world about us as it actually appears ; that we must think away our hindsight and remember that these artists could not see the way ahead . |
| 20 | He desperately needed to talk to me , to have me as a confessor if not to obtain my active help , but could not see the way to come to terms with me ; his need to accept was in conflict with his wish to reject . |
| 21 | Without having that understanding of what emotions are and what they are doing to us we can not analyse the way in which emotions disturb our balance and what that should teach us about ourselves and our relationship with the world . |
| 22 | I think the the concept I want to get across is that the design of the application does not constrain the way that you implement , firstly a client server technology and secondly the use of your chosen relational database management system . |
| 23 | Maybe fire is the opposite principle to light , and comes to the use of those who do not go the way of light . |
| 24 | Alice , who had several times caught Tom looking admiringly at her while they were coming up there in the tube , and could not forget the way he had held out his hand to her while they sang the duet , wondered if having the room next to his was a good idea . |
| 25 | I may never see you again Elsie but even if I never do I can not change the way I feel . |
| 26 | Her private opinions of the incumbent Earl did not match the way Diana and Charles saw her behave in public toward their grandfather . |
| 27 | Though I agreed with their political views , I could not condone the way they acted and was glad to see them go at last . |
| 28 | It does not reflect the way this whole thing happened . |
| 29 | ‘ Gervase would not ask the way , and the street lamps were so few and far between that it was impossible to use our map . |
| 30 | This contention is problematical , though , as it does not address the way in which mental health services fail to engage Afro-Caribbean families in culturally appropriate services . |