Example sentences of "[v-ing] [art] [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd meant her to lose control and give me an opportunity , but it was proving the other way around . |
| 2 | " He wo n't be using the old way for long . " |
| 3 | Llangollen Railway staff at work re-railing the breakdown crane and repairing the Permanent Way following the derailment at Glyndyfrdwy . |
| 4 | Travel companies are featuring Japan more and more as a destination in their brochures , and more foreign visitors are encountering the Japanese way of hotels . |
| 5 | ‘ Pulling into a thirty-five-foot tube would be as close to a cosmic experience as you can get , short of surfing the Milky Way . |
| 6 | In British terms that means reflecting the multifarious ways in which speech and gesture reveal or seek to conceal social status and social pretension : and in a fast-shifting , highly unrigid world like the British , status is far more often a matter of pretension than of birth . |
| 7 | The timing of the political programme was significantly different in Britain and Spain , however , reflecting the different ways in which economic forces have become translated into political strategies and ideologies in the two countries . |
| 8 | All the family can enjoy eating the low-fat way and it will do everyone a world of good . |
| 9 | Large bowel cancer is uncommon among Japanese eating their traditional diet , but it was found that , within a generation , Japanese eating the American way had developed a risk of large bowel cancer equal to that of Americans . |
| 10 | If food 's got anything to do with it then I must have been eating the wrong way for the last 40 years . |
| 11 | It the impetus came I think largely from feminism and it was perhaps a way of of y'know kind of erm because there was a great deal of interest , particularly in the seventies , in cataloguing and understanding the various ways in which women were oppressed and this is one of the things came to light and often through things like consciousness raising groups . |
| 12 | The woman went on to say that the social worker had written down what her husband had told her to because she was frightened of him , and because she was a young nit-wit from college no more capable of understanding the wily ways of men like her husband than she could fly . |
| 13 | There is some danger of this position becoming the only way that you can fly the model , with other positions or attitudes becoming increasingly difficult . |
| 14 | Perhaps , in course of time , some of the Roman Catholics saw the wisdom , and endured less anxiety , by adopting the Protestant ways — different maybe , but easier for their children … some of the men began to marry local women . |
| 15 | As I gingerly stepped on to one last narrow slab , I met someone I knew walking the other way . |
| 16 | The last time I had been on Shunner Fell two years previously I had been walking the Pennine Way and had left Tan Hill on a rainy June day , with heavy clouds following me south as I travelled . |
| 17 | " Do not stray from the path " , said a notice I saw in the Cheviots when I was walking the Pennine Way . |
| 18 | While walking the Pennine Way I cooled my feet in the beck before continuing south to Airton and Gargrave . |
| 19 | She began to look , with a somewhat dull kind of hopefulness , for somebody friendly , not too much in a hurry , walking the opposite way , although it would be more reasonable , really , to ask somebody walking the same way . |
| 20 | Walking is really two separate transport modes , as travel on foot to access other modes such as car or bus is different in almost all respects from walking the whole way . |
| 21 | Pike 's legs went up and down like someone walking the wrong way along a travelator . |
| 22 | In fact , the equation is more challenging the other way round : Pound thinks Joyce a Phenomenon deserving equal attention with Mussolini — a temperate judgement that the years may be thought to have vindicated . |
| 23 | Number crunching the friendly way |
| 24 | A SOLDIER was critically injured yesterday after driving the wrong way down a fogbound motorway . |
| 25 | A PENSIONER caused havoc after getting lost and driving the wrong way up a motorway . |
| 26 | FRUSTRATED motorists tried to escape three-mile tailbacks by driving the wrong way along one of Suffolk 's busiest roads yesterday after it was blocked by grain . |
| 27 | The car was eventually stopped after driving the wrong way down a dual carriageway . |
| 28 | I learned about trailer driving the hard way during a competition retrieve , when an enthusiastic crew member took us off the road with an Eagle two-seater in the trailer . |
| 29 | The track from Dent Town up Flinter Gill on to the " Ocky " , as locals call it , is an old green lane , with rough boulders and stones paving the steep way out of the dale used in former days by packhorse trains and coal-carts coming over from Ingleton and Barbondale . |
| 30 | Indeed , religious tensions appear to have been at the root of the party divide — not the sole cause , it should be stressed ( indeed , much of this book has been concerned with documenting the complex ways constitutional and religious issues interacted ) , but perhaps the most potent source of conflict , with attitudes towards Dissent ( whether one was sympathetic or hostile to Protestant Nonconformists ) being one of the strongest predictors of partisan allegiance . |