Example sentences of "way [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My maximum bet had given away my hand and forced Judas to go one way where he would otherwise have certainly gone both . |
| 2 | I took over and we lost our way where a blackened adobe town sprawled over a hill above a steelworks . |
| 3 | ‘ You and I have got some serious talking to do — I 'm not about to let the director have things all his own way where make-up 's concerned . |
| 4 | Cycle with consideration for others , giving way where necessary ; |
| 5 | Take the naming of parts out West Edinburgh way where all sorts of developments are going on . |
| 6 | Isambard , putting the door to very softly behind him , was stabbed by yet another of the recollections that fronted him every way where Harry was . |
| 7 | The first difficulty is , despite the destructions , the enormous number of existing pictures , many of them signed , and in one way or another more or less Bellinesque . |
| 8 | The wrecker explains that , one way or another , ‘ it 's not easy to pull down monuments ’ . |
| 9 | Theatres were closed during the Cromwellian period , but with the restoration of the monarchy in 1660 came Court comedy and the beginning of the ‘ comedy of manners ’ which has , in one way or another , been popular right up to the present day . |
| 10 | Let it make its way or not , as fate determines . |
| 11 | Soon it was time for luncheon , and the whole of the downstairs staff was occupied in one way or another . |
| 12 | ‘ Will she take it all the way or wo n't she ? ’ became the talk of the senior common room . |
| 13 | ‘ I do n't want to put you out of your way or anything , I … ’ |
| 14 | If you feel that you will be unable to take out a loan in this way or that it will cause you financial hardship , you can apply to the Social Services Department for help . |
| 15 | I 'm incredibly lazy but I do think I 've found the right way or at least a better way than hers to live . |
| 16 | Anyway , since the English language , not unlike its speakers , and the climate in which it was reared , did not necessarily adhere to the principles of predictability , even had the thought of the good Earl occurred to me , I may st ill not have surmised that it gave proof positive one way or the other re the acceptable pronunciation of the Square 's Christian name . |
| 17 | But if the choreographer does not understand all the details which go to make the total presentation of a ballet , it can all too easily fail in some way or other . |
| 18 | This can be done only if the whole body is seen to be involved in some way or other . |
| 19 | Dostoevsky exhorted himself in his notebooks to ‘ explain the whole murder one way or another and make its character and relations clear ’ , but the artist in him would n't allow it . |
| 20 | With both the motive for the murder and the brave rescue Crime and Punishment sets the pattern for later Dostoevsky ; his post-Siberian notebooks swarm with admonitions like ‘ Decide the matter definitely one way or the other ’ , and with the X marks the spot of ‘ Here a podvig is achieved ’ ; and in the other novels , as in Crime and Punishment , the actual outcome of such promptings makes an interesting study . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , this , in one way or another , is what we then require the student to do ; the ineffable is to be transformed into efficient communication , whether in seminar discussion , an essay , or an examination answer . |
| 22 | Moreover Prothero , a historian , perhaps had no ideas about poetic diction one way or the other ; Pound , as we have seen , thought himself victimized by Prothero not for anything to do with writing but for having championed Lewis the painter and Gaudier the sculptor . |
| 23 | ‘ Clearly the Kurds , one way or another , are going to present an enormous problem to the courts very shortly , as they are at the moment to the Home Office , ’ Mr Justice Schiemann said . |
| 24 | Then , in a quick display of candour — or humour — he added : ‘ I mean , I could argue one way or the other about that . |
| 25 | Lack of proper sleep had affected everyone , in one way or another . |
| 26 | Everyone here is haunted one way or another . |
| 27 | It does n't bear thinking about , but I only hope I shall have learnt something from you in order to carry it on in some way or another . ’ |
| 28 | I think they have made some positive statements but I do n't know whether it will work that way or not . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ To my mind , it is a virtual certainty that the partnership 's operations would have been brought to an end , in one way or another , within a relatively short time after … |
| 30 | He was an attorney at law who , when he first began his practice , bragged , according to Gilbert 's Parochial History of Cornwall , ‘ that he would get an estate by the law one way or the other . |