Example sentences of "[num] way or the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Then , in a quick display of candour — or humour — he added : ‘ I mean , I could argue one way or the other about that . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The question is not yet decided , one way or the other . |
| 6 | One way or the other . ’ |
| 7 | No amount of struggle availed Charles one way or the other . |
| 8 | ‘ So do I , ’ I said , but I 'm not bothered one way or the other . |
| 9 | The remainder are ‘ not bothered one way or the other ’ . |
| 10 | Claims that it shortened the war by several years can not be proved one way or the other . |
| 11 | The point is , they 'll report it one way or the other . |
| 12 | He said that although he was personally quite happy with things as they were , he understood her doubts and perhaps a trial separation would resolve them one way or the other . |
| 13 | I got married not thinking about it one way or the other ; I just loved the girl . ’ |
| 14 | I accept that there are differing views on this subject but , since no one is able to offer concrete proof one way or the other , I can only write of what I believe to be the case . |
| 15 | At the end of the season Chapman called me in and said it was time for me to decide one way or the other . |
| 16 | I knew that I should not be able to forget them again until the business had been resolved one way or the other . |
| 17 | But surely a couple of photos must tell the story one way or the other ? |
| 18 | unalterable conviction in favour of the adoption for our Palace of Administration of the revived national style — a style so characteristic of our own age it is beginning to be called Victorian — we protest against being obliged to tolerate an effete Palladian or mongrel Renaissance architecture to please those who wish to claim the merit of a breadth of view and of artistic sympathy by denying that they have any prejudices on the subject , one way or the other . |
| 19 | A constable who in the course of patrolling sees something which in his opinion is of a suspicious character , should satisfy himself one way or the other before proceeding to work the remaining portion of his ground . |
| 20 | It was a problem which the team manager , Mike Turner , should have faced up to very quickly and brought to a conclusion one way or the other . |
| 21 | ‘ Anyway , I really ca n't see that it matters one way or the other what I think , ’ Alison said . |
| 22 | No doubt about it , he made a very timely exit one way or the other . ’ |
| 23 | Not very much , one way or the other . |
| 24 | You have a right to know one way or the other . |
| 25 | Who , an old soldier , was intent ‘ one way or the other ’ to make a man of him . |
| 26 | But Anton knew that this man , one way or the other , would n't be working in this place much longer . |
| 27 | The opposite of loving is indifference , with its lack of feeling one way or the other . |
| 28 | The almost complete lack of response , one way or the other , from the Masai , only seems to have encouraged these fantasies , because it provided an environment in which fantasy was rarely tested against reality . |
| 29 | ‘ But something definite will happen one way or the other in the next 48 hours . ’ |
| 30 | After that , few days passed when Paul did not see Dinah , in one way or the other . |