Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] the [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the snail darter case the justices of the Supreme Court argued about the proper way to read the Environmental Protection Act . |
| 2 | The Midland rose in the same way as it later fell — by acquisition . |
| 3 | As he did so he moved in the dreamy way of a man in a state of shock . |
| 4 | This behaved in the same way as the first unit , so I took this one back and got a third … |
| 5 | We also tested an unrelated human osteosarcoma-derived cell line ( 13.1 ; M.P.K. and G. Attardi , unpublished observations , and ref. 18 ) , and it behaved in the same way : the cells could be induced to undergo apoptosis by either serum deprivation or staurosporine treatment , and they were protected by transfection with bcl-2 ( not shown ) . |
| 6 | There is also a section devoted to the polite ways of ‘ playing around between the classes ; you do n't have to be British to know that a great sexual attraction exists between people not like us ’ . |
| 7 | Mosasaurs , when not head-butting each other , were deep-diving sea hunters , and evidence of avascular necrosis in their bone structure hinted that they suffered in the same way as did human divers — they had frequent spells of the ‘ bends ’ . |
| 8 | Came round the other way from Decimus Street . ’ |
| 9 | I mean I think you all learnt from the one way system and the fiasco erm of that was actually there . |
| 10 | Fulco , son and heir of William Michell , surrendered by attorney his copyhold at Cradley , Worcs. , to the use of Richard Smith ; both were non-resident , as was William Bere , who surrendered in the same way at the next court . |
| 11 | Open , friendly and honest by nature herself , she was happiest with others who acted in the same way , but Adam Burns was a riddle she doubted she would ever find the answer to . |
| 12 | No , no ; that sounded too much like the Bible , so she plumped for the simple way and finished , ‘ He has given her a baby . ’ |
| 13 | The Chamber of the House of Commons was damaged by bombs during the Second World War and when deciding whether it should be rebuilt as it was originally , or along the lines of the Houses of Parliament in Ottawa and elsewhere in the Commonwealth ( ’ one representative : one desk ’ ) , Winston Churchill and Clement Attlee , with other senior politicians , plumped for the old ways — and the old ways were those of adversarial politics . |
| 14 | On Raglan Road on an autumn day I saw her first , and knew That her dark hair would weave a snare that I would one day rue I saw the danger , then I walked along the enchanted way And I said let grief be a falling leaf At the dawning of the day … |
| 15 | Then calculate the distance walked in the same way as above . |
| 16 | The will began in the usual way , with small bequests to several relatives of whom Theda had never heard , and a lump sum and pension for the Diggorys — at mention of which old Adam had again recourse to his handkerchief . |
| 17 | He reported a familiar parental complaint which began in the following way : |
| 18 | The views he expressed in The Middle Way , published in 1938 , pointing towards a managed economy and the expansion of welfare services to achieve a national minimum , came close to expressing the essential ingredients of what both PEP and the Next Five Years Group wanted in the way of a change of direction by the National Government . |
| 19 | Mind the Lowsons stuck to the old ways in other respects . |
| 20 | These deposits are then borrowed and lent in the usual way . |
| 21 | As for the residence requirement , despite the fact that it applied in the same way to British nationals , it constituted covert discrimination on grounds of nationality in so far as , by the very nature of things , nationals of other member states were less likely to be ‘ resident ’ in the United Kingdom than British citizens . |
| 22 | He settled into the new way of life and rarely thought about Manchester , a place where he could not recollect the sun ever shining . |
| 23 | He greeted her very warmly and blushed in the sweetest way when she gave him a sisterly kiss . |
| 24 | Full and economic monetary union could be a problem , handled in the wrong way this could create large unemployment in countries . |
| 25 | Called to attend at 10.15 in the morning , we started in the time-honoured way of civilization with a coffee break . |
| 26 | Most encounters started in the same way , with a question about the bikes . |
| 27 | Andy and Peter are both happy to admit that TMAM started in the same way as most enthusiast-driven collections — with no collecting policy at all . |
| 28 | As my hon. Friend knows , that was considered carefully by the Army when it looked into the best way to approach the reorganisation . |
| 29 | Like the case , some years ago , when two men died in the same way from similar stab wounds on the same day in the same street . |
| 30 | Neither did he , for the moment , recognise her own diffidence as an indication that she felt in the same way about him . |