Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] the way " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Do n't you think , ’ he said , ‘ you 're reacting in just the way she wants ? ’ |
| 2 | Finally , it is worth pointing out that the voltage at pin-14 does not behave in quite the way in which you suggest . |
| 3 | They said the light moved in just the way this one seemed to be doing . |
| 4 | They influence not only the way the audience receives cultural texts , but also what gets exhibited in museums , the paintings we see in books and magazines and on television , and what gets taught in the art schools . |
| 5 | ‘ Hell , you 've had experience very recently of handling some tricky situations , taking instant decisions , and they came out just the way we wanted them . |
| 6 | But er no , I would just keep on exactly the way you 're doing , I would n't |
| 7 | ‘ It all happened in exactly the way we wanted it to . |
| 8 | anything inside your brackets multiplied by what you 've got outside just the way you would have two times brackets three add six close brackets . |
| 9 | No , he must have said something first , now I come to think about it , because I can remember very distinctly the way he spoke . |
| 10 | They made the Navigation Acts effective ; in the colonies the legislation came to be known as ‘ the Acts of Trade ’ , which expressed rather well the way that , while the Acts ' main importance to England lay in their encouragement to shipping , their main impact on the colonies came in the way they affected the pattern of trade that was developing . |
| 11 | Pornographic eroticism , I will argue , is , therefore , to be condemned , but it does not function in quite the way some feminists have argued that it does . |
| 12 | But I do know where I was when I fell — in the belt of grass under the bank , and facing straight ahead the way I was walking . |
| 13 | It has n't stopped him making guest appearances and recordings with western orchestras , and he is no longer in a position where he 's asked only to conduct Russian music — ‘ Berlioz and Beethoven with British orchestras were far more interesting propositions for me than , for example , Tchaikovsky , because you remember too much the way Russian orchestras play Tchaikovsky with the huge sound and the heaviness and the passion ’ . |
| 14 | I mean being on my own , travelling down here the way that I did . |
| 15 | It must be appreciated that the spelling of Latin names varied in much the way that today Catharine , Catherine , Katharine , Katherine , Kathryn and Catrina are , for example , versions of a single form , hence in the list only the more obscure renderings are given . |
| 16 | He exhibits a number of adjectives which differ in precisely the way required while maintaining the same or essentially the same lexical value ( we modify his examples slightly where it is possible to do so without damage to his case , so as to make the distinction sharper ) : ( 19 ) visible stars vs stars visible the only navigable rivers vs the only rivers navigable a handy tool vs are your tools handy ? guilty people vs people guilty As it happens , the examples which Bolinger uses employ words which can make the distinction a rather subtle one , with perhaps the exception of visible stars ( a group recognized astronomically ) beside stars visible ; but it is quite easy to produce further instances which seem to confirm his view : ( 20 ) a complaining visitor vs a visitor complaining the eligible bachelor vs the bachelor eligible In other cases , the divergence of lexical value between the two positions may be greater but still with the characteristic value for the former , and the occasion value for the latter : ( 21 ) the responsible man vs the man responsible a sorry sight vs the girl is sorry He notes that the acceptability of an adjective in pre-adjunct position may apparently depend on whether or not it can be regarded as indicating a relatively enduring characteristic of what is expressed by the noun , as in : ( 22 ) the faint girl vs the girl is faint an asleep man vs a man asleep This possibility of course depends not only on the adjective itself but also on the nature of the noun being qualified , so that " when one scratches one 's head the result is not *a scratched head but when one scores a glass surface the result is a scratched surface " . |
| 17 | If we take from ( 1 ) the phrase distant cousin , we can remark that it is closely analogous to another phrase — near relative — in which it is quite plain that the adjective is not assigned to the referential locus of the following word , but qualifies the property which it expresses in just the way that the same word does in : ( 5 ) a near impossible task The facts of intensional qualification are not in the least altered because traditional grammar has customarily described near as an adverb in phrases like ( 5 ) , but as an adjective in near relative . |
| 18 | He would have to watch more carefully the way he spoke to her . |
| 19 | Certainly , you do read the odd story that describes a person behaving in just the way we have outlined . |
| 20 | He believes we are at a deeply significant turning point in human history and if we are to come through it we have to change not just the way people behave , but also the way in which they think . |
| 21 | The Hoflin affair had n't worked out quite the way he 'd planned either , although he 'd spent a lot of time and money on the little thing . |
| 22 | Things had n't worked out quite the way she had imagined . |
| 23 | The nature of the ‘ causes ’ identified by the different approaches , in other words , reflected very clearly the way the enquiry was framed in the first place . |
| 24 | It carries on right the way through . |
| 25 | In all these cases the reaction of society as a whole in the face of ‘ The Thing ’ is like that of an organism attacked by a parasite , or a specialised aggressor : it behaves in exactly the way which renders the aggression successful . |
| 26 | Yet behind the grubby façades , if you know where to look , you can still find the Unani doctors , practising in exactly the way they always have . |
| 27 | In that instant all she wanted was for him to take her in his arms again ; to know the sweet pressure of his mouth on hers and to feel once more the way her body had come alive beneath his hands . |