Example sentences of "[adj] way [adv] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Correspondingly , the two eddy types in Figs. 21.10 and 21.11 may be related in some way rather than occurring independently . |
| 2 | After staring about for some time , they ran across to a little mound some way away and looked again . |
| 3 | Things are put together which are in some way alike or belong together . |
| 4 | Likewise Caroline Bynum , in Holy Feast , Holy Fast , her book about medieval women religious , pours a rigorous historian 's scorn on the idea that the extreme penitential fastings of some of these women can really be diagnosed as anorexic , or as any other sort of neurosis ( as proposed for example by Rudolph Bell in Holy Anorexia ) : not merely are the case histories inadequate , but these women 's understanding of their bodies , of their relationship to Christ , of their right to participate in his sufferings , of their sense of identity , their very selves , was formed in a social environment so different from our own that nothing is to be gained by reading off their lives in this way rather than exploring in proper detail what it was they did feel and think . |
| 5 | The author , Gavin Alexander , until recently head of Hampton School in Middlesex , for boys aged 11 to 18 years , says it might be better for 13-year-old pupils to be assessed in this way rather than sitting the Common Entrance and then being assessed again a year later . |
| 6 | Every village school in Eritrea is designed in this way so as to prevent detection from the air by the MIGs and Antanov bombers of the Ethiopian air force . |
| 7 | Sedley had carved the Ns the wrong way round and omitted the O from ‘ prisoner ’ , but these mistakes only heightened the poignancy of his message . |
| 8 | She will , she 's gon na be big Kelly , and she goes , she goes half way up and run down , back then |
| 9 | The desert was an unforgiving place , but their training had equipped them to cope , when at any time they could have taken the easy way out and walked down to the coast road to surrender . |
| 10 | There is an ever-present temptation to take the easy way out and concentrate on items that are ‘ sexy ’ even though they may be irrelevant or misleading . |
| 11 | Most of us took the easy way out and accepted a helicopter ride back to Kleine Scheidegg , but Drummond and eight others stayed on top for an all-night vigil . |
| 12 | This practically ruined him but rather than take the easy way out and declare himself bankrupt , he called a meeting of his creditors and asked for time to pay . |
| 13 | In spite of the midsummer heat , many families choose to cook their Christmas dinner in the conventional way rather than attempt to barbecue the turkey ! |
| 14 | Yes , I can always put this round the reverse way so that goes in there well it wo n't |
| 15 | Basically , a general program , supplied with the data layout and validation requirements of the study , guides the keypuncher page by page through the questionnaire form ( or similar document ) in a helpful way so as to facilitate error-free transfer of the information and to give immediate warning of any data anomalies that can be detected as well as providing a mechanism for correcting mistakes . |
| 16 | They stopped only to pick up Cheryl , who saw them coming a long way off and ran down to the road to meet them . |
| 17 | No one was certain whether or not this would have the desired effect but Party Politics produced a tremendous performance to win the Greenall Chase at Haydock , taking the lead a long way out and running on strongly . |
| 18 | sort of going just a short way along and having to reverse back out again |
| 19 | Technique , first of all , is the ability to use a stroke in the simplest way so as to achieve the best stroke . |
| 20 | At one gig in Cork they were so skint they could n't afford to buy beer , and instead took the crusty way out and raided the local mixture . |
| 21 | One way forward that has proved helpful to a number of people is franchise management . |
| 22 | Firstly , to make a motif come out the same way round as depicted on your graph , turn the graph upside down . |
| 23 | What is striking about these two books is the sense they convey — little less unusual now than when they were written — of a strong and independent black community , in which people found their own way rather than having it mapped out for them by white expectations . |
| 24 | Mick informed me that the Brigade Major had gone to pay No. 4 Commando a visit , so I decided to make my own way there and keep out of the Brigade Major 's path as much as possible . |
| 25 | my own way there and meet them . |
| 26 | Ipswich are out to sharpen up in a big way tomorrow and get back to winning ways after a draw and two defeats in the league following the FA Cup fifth round home 4–0 win over Grimsby . |
| 27 | I mean , you can go along and always think ‘ Oh there 's nothing to this ’ , but then for some reason or other somebody has a complaint 's gone a big way round and ends up right at the top , and then , of course cascading down comes the ‘ Why ? |
| 28 | If you want the motif to come out as a mirror image of the graph , keep the graph the right way up and start knitting from row 1 at the bottom of the sheet . |
| 29 | One method is to draw over the outline again on the underside of the paper with a soft pencil , then turn the paper the right way up and place on the icing . |
| 30 | The thing is maybe they could keep their extraordinary lifestyle to themselves that way rather than imposing it on other people |