Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] the other way " in BNC.
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| 1 | This jacket is styled for the American market , so the pocket zips open bottom to top and the main zip connects the other way round . |
| 2 | I think very often the influence goes the other way . |
| 3 | Traditionally , I always feel that the influence goes the other way . |
| 4 | But if a judge errs the other way and fines a rapist a few hundred pounds , or puts on probation a bank robber with previous convictions who clearly ought to go directly to jail , nothing happens . |
| 5 | Like writing , paintings seem to hint at a topsy-turvy world in which , so to speak , time 's arrow moves the other way . |
| 6 | In fact , all the evidence points the other way . |
| 7 | With the other light on ( the right on the 580 and the EC1 , the left on the earlier models ) the pattern falls the other way . |
| 8 | As we have already observed ( see ( 35 ) ) , the verb see , in its ordinary uses , can not be expected to occur with an adverbal adjective , but this does appear to be the interpretation needed for ( 41 ) which may be considered substandard but is apparently possible in current British English : ( 41 ) even if the scheme does fail , I 'll see you comfortable Much more often , the idiomaticity works the other way , so that a set of lexical items that could fit the structure of ( 21 ) , with appropriate values , seem to give unacceptable sentences , as in ( 42 ) : ( 42 ) Eva played her opponent exhausted Wendy wiped the floor moist |
| 9 | The capacitive system works the other way around in that the stylus is used to detect a series of coded pulses fed into a two-layer grid . |
| 10 | The capacitive system works the other way around in that the stylus is used to detect a series of coded pulses fed into a two-layer grid . |