Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] in the way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somehow I ca n't see it catching on in the way Play-Doh did . |
| 2 | Had the Wessex novels been written earlier , when places off the beaten track were inaccessible , or nearer our own time , when we have become sated with effortless mobility , ‘ Wessex ’ might not have caught on in the way that it did . |
| 3 | Now , I admit that it ca n't be , it ca n't have come about in the way that Freud says . |
| 4 | You can not expect to be asked the questions exactly as they appear here and you will be badly thrown if you have programmed yourself with exact responses to very particular questions which do not crop up in the way you had anticipated . |
| 5 | But a more novel objection came from Dr Leonard Wilson , when Bishop of Birmingham , and who opened a school without wearing gaiters as a form of protest because he believed : ‘ Bishops should not dress up in the way of the decadent eighteenth century . ’ |
| 6 | Unfortunately the Act has not turned out in the way that its progenitors hoped . |
| 7 | I think most of the plots have been written , and it a genre that has been written out in the way that the Western was written out . |
| 8 | So what was going on in the way of entertainments and things like that when you came to ? |
| 9 | It shows up in the way our best run companies now organize their work , regard their workers , design their enterprises . |
| 10 | If the results did not always work out in the way intended , the blame for the failings of the criminal justice system can not be attributed to any lack of zeal to legislate . |
| 11 | The idea that Athens actually remitted all tribute that year can be dismissed — there is no other good evidence for an easing up in the way the empire was run . |
| 12 | I do n't think this was the case , though , as many women did conform and those who stuck out in the way of Madeline Vesey Neroni and Mrs. Proudie were few and far between — few dared to be too independent or to try and think for themselves . |
| 13 | ‘ Imagine me in one of those , ’ she said , and laughter bubbled out in the way that normally set the whole bus tour laughing with her . |
| 14 | For example with education , it 'll be a terrible thing for education if the middle classes continue to contract out in the way that they are so we have a divorced system of independent education quite separate from the state system . |
| 15 | Instead of saying that in the absence of a community there can be no rules , we say that what is wrong with the solipsist 's rules is that they can not be set up in the way he pretends , by using a private experience as a sample . |
| 16 | Do you mind if I just go on in the way I 'm used to ? ’ |
| 17 | We 've had the speakers up here saying that they 're going out , they 're knocking on doors , so you know , it 's not just about money , but I tell you what if they go on in the way they 're going on there 's no way Joe Bloggs is going out quite tonight on a vote night saying come out and give us your vote . |
| 18 | Suggestions , in preparation for the next meeting , for those procedures that we still have to review , the procedure owners are going to put the information to us in one of two ways , if it is a minor modification procedure small changes of wording things need to be uncontroversial , we will resite the procedure with red line and strike out in the way that Jenny procedures have been prepared and circulate before the meeting . |
| 19 | Leslie was disturbed to hear of this latest small trauma : ‘ It distresses me , ’ he wrote , ‘ to think of you being chivvied about in the way you are ; after all , the army supports me , and when it moves me thinks a wee bit about me . |
| 20 | Women 's increasing commitment to the labour market does not appear to pay off in the way that would be expected if people were actually rewarded according to their ability and effort . |
| 21 | I might have guessed you 'd something worked out in the way of revenge , but your timing 's gone a bit wrong . |
| 22 | If it was spread out in the way that the plum-pudding model supposed it would only moderately deflect the a-particles . |
| 23 | That this is so comes out in the way we say , for example , ‘ There is a pain in my foot ’ as readily as ‘ I feel a pain in my foot ’ . |
| 24 | But electors ca n't be ordered around in the way Labour Party members can , and they have made pretty clear they did n't like the result ( neither do Labour Party members , which is why they have left in droves ) . |