Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [prep] the way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surere could not disappear in the way that he had without powerful help . |
| 2 | You would not think from the way Lavinia lived that there was anything at all ! ’ |
| 3 | It can be much worse if you are selling as well as buying , for you are then involved in a dreaded thing called ‘ the chain' , which only moves at the pace of the slowest , if it does not disintegrate along the way and put you back to square one . |
| 4 | The players who have strolled through our consciousness these past 10 years are mostly with us yet , but whatever they do in the Nineties will not resound in the way that their achievements of the Eighties did . |
| 5 | For there is a formula which generates the ‘ deviant ’ continuation from the same early stages ; since both series start in the same way , we can not appeal to the way in which one starts in order to justify our preference for its way of going on . |
| 6 | When we are hurt by someone 's behaviour , all that is happening is that we are disappointed because they do not behave in the way we expect and the reality conflicts with our ideals . |
| 7 | But if The Order of Things is thus concerned to analyse ‘ ensembles of discourses ’ that do not form a totality , it does not focus on the ways in which such forms of knowledges relate to the institutions in which and through which they are produced . |
| 8 | He could not plan for the way of the wind , that was luck , but for the rest he had everything at his finger-ends . |
| 9 | The language that most of the home computers are used with is BASIC , and although there are a few words in that language which look like English words , like ‘ If ’ and ‘ Let ’ and ‘ Go to ’ and perhaps some others depending on the dialect of BASIC that you have , these words do not work in the way that ordinary English speakers are used to . |
| 10 | That they were usually successful indicates that the thieves understood the workings of the colonial bureaucracy , and that government did not function in the way intended by higher officials . |
| 11 | Jane often tried to shock her mother into facing some of the world 's uglier problems , but Laura did not react in the way Jane might have expected . |
| 12 | Moreover , this limit does not depend on the way in which one tries to measure the position or velocity of the particle , or on the type of particle : Heisenberg 's uncertainty principle is a fundamental , inescapable property of the world . |
| 13 | Time , now Henry was forty , did not proceed in the way it had previously done . |
| 14 | Local authorities did not respond in the way the government had hoped . |
| 15 | The shibboleth of the DM3 standard should not stand in the way of entry at a realistic level , which would probably be at around DM2.80 to the pound . |
| 16 | The Transport Secretary , Mr Cecil Parkinson , assured the Commons yesterday that financial considerations would not stand in the way of implementing Sir Anthony Hidden 's 93 recommendations . |
| 17 | I can assure the House that finance will not stand in the way of implementation of the report . ’ |
| 18 | MR CECIL Parkinson , the Transport Secretary , gave an assurance to the Commons yesterday that financial considerations would not stand in the way of implementing recommendations of the Clapham disaster report . |
| 19 | But he promised : ‘ I can assure the House that finance will not stand in the way of the implementation of the report . ’ |
| 20 | Her position as expressed to me was that if the private sector wanted to use its own money for the tunnel then we should certainly not stand in the way . |
| 21 | The Government would not stand in the way of a united Ireland provided it could be negotiated by democratic and peaceful means . |
| 22 | Provided that this is favourable , we at Barclays believe that for the most part this approach will not stand in the way of efficient securitisation . |
| 23 | Manager Joe Kinnear , robbed of the injured John Fashanu , sees Cork as a short-term solution — and Sheffield United 's Dave Bassett would not stand in the way of his great pal . |
| 24 | Fifth , subsidiarity will not stand in the way of the Community if the institutions want to claim power — as they will . |
| 25 | Similarly , where there are insufficient funds in the scheme to meet the cost of equalisation , the national courts must decide the scheme 's and employer 's respective liability , but national law must not stand in the way of Article 199 . |
| 26 | They do not feed on the way . |
| 27 | That game was billed as football 's Armageddon and the fact that there was no trouble between rival fans in the Rheinstadion did not get in the way of a good hooligan story . |
| 28 | However , if you are committed to jumping a fence , they should not get in the way . |
| 29 | Children 's bedrooms are usually small areas with light-coloured walls , so there should be enough reflected light to lighten up the main scene of action , but if you do bring in any additional low-level lighting , take care to position it where it will not get in the way of the camera or shine into the lens . |
| 30 | Wind shielding : the burner design gives the flame good protection and the case lid 's stiff hinges allow it to be propped upright giving some extra protection ( assuming the pot does not get in the way ) . |