Example sentences of "way round " in BNC.
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| 1 | The homosexual is implicated all ways round , and according to some fairly crude psychoanalytic binaries . |
| 2 | You tend to think oh so many things do n't dissolve in water but think of the other ways round . |
| 3 | If a concept presented difficulties for children in understanding , she did not , gladly or reluctantly , resolve to postpone trying to communicate it — she thought of ways round , using such devices as homely examples and visual stimuli . |
| 4 | Well they do n't in fact Gill , in fact horse chestnuts are rather interesting , that technically what 's called andromonetius which means they have male flowers and hermaphrodite flowers on the same , so it 's hedging its bets all ways round . |
| 5 | In fact there 's advantages both ways round . |
| 6 | Do you feel that was the right way round for you ? |
| 7 | Why did so many of the children put the ‘ e ’ and the ‘ i ’ the wrong way round again in ‘ their ’ ? |
| 8 | The leg raises are done the opposite way round , with the feet at the lower end of the incline bench . |
| 9 | Actually , I think the woman was envious that I was sexy and Max was cute — or the other way round ! ’ |
| 10 | They would have to come home the long way round . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | There was no doubt that they were expected to admire the former and scorn the latter ; anyone misguided enough to get the preference the wrong way round , would be regarded as at best naïve and misguided , and at worst corrupted in sensibility . |
| 14 | Twenty years on , the phrases which she saw as indicating a deformation of values have become commonplace in the Thatcherite academy , where contemplation is regarded as idleness , rather than the other way round , and Leavis 's abominated ‘ technologico-Benthamism ’ is firmly in the saddle . |
| 15 | As Edward Pechter puts it , ‘ History does not tell us what the text is , because we decide what history is , and then put history into the text , rather than the other way round . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It is the Americans who remake foreign films , not the other way round . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Christine Merlin also told Mr Justice Gatehouse that the fertility of her breeding geese diminished and goslings hatched with abnormalities such as ‘ heads on the wrong way round and wings in peculiar positions ’ . |
| 20 | Conversely , Ninagawa had trouble applying the combination of eastern and western styles to a traditional Japanese piece : ‘ It is much more difficult to bring realism into stylization than the other way round . |
| 21 | Sir : Mr Stephen Campbell ( letters , 5 October ) asks if he is alone in thinking that personal injury awards should be increased in relation to libel awards rather than the other way round . |
| 22 | 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 . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . ’ |
| 24 | Rather than use his apartment as an extension of the office , Milton did things the other way round . |
| 25 | If a boy is born ‘ breech ’ , or bottom first , for instance , he may later believe that he does things the wrong way round ; or because such births are painful for the mothers , he may decide that he hurts women . |
| 26 | Back in the present , enemies of the guerrillas ' 'new democracy' have their feet and heads hacked off and crudely sewn back on — the wrong way round . |
| 27 | Critics seem to have it the other way round , so there 's a lot of stuff talked about me using different styles , but there does n't seem to be much said about whether it works , or whether it 's done with taste , or whether the end result is worth having . |
| 28 | As a manager I have to judge whether a young band 's professional tail is wagging the domestic dog or the other way round . |
| 29 | He looked up and all the way round ; all eyes were on him . |
| 30 | Starting to play music was a way round that It was a way of entertaining myself , passing the time . |