Example sentences of "not [adj] [prep] the way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though mischief or simply tomfoolery played a large part in his life , he was certainly not track-mischievous in the way Niki Lauda was . |
| 2 | also they 're not used to the way that we 're used to living . |
| 3 | I am afraid you 're not used to the ways of the bazaar , Captain Owen . |
| 4 | I am sorry , but the Prime Minister — I am sure without any intention — is not right about the way that he expressed himself on that point . |
| 5 | If young people are not deficient in the ways that current rhetoric suggests , then what is the explanation for the high levels of youth unemployment ? |
| 6 | It seemed a dark mysterious sort of profession , perhaps in a way not quite manly , or not manly in the way she was used to . |
| 7 | That is not clear from the way that the Bill is worded . |
| 8 | I am not interested in the way my sister spends her afternoons . |
| 9 | Imamu and Boo are not similar in the way that they are both the same age or the same colour , but what makes them similar and comparable is that they are both outsiders in society . |
| 10 | The minutes , as finally issued , still did not record my protest and I have since informed the Secretary of the Cabinet that I am still not content with the way in which this discussion was recorded . |
| 11 | Some accountants , however , are not content with the way they spend their holiday time . |
| 12 | Corporate crime is not visible in the way that ‘ conventional ’ crime is , due to the complex nature of such crime and the ineffective laws and minimal punishments associated with it . |
| 13 | The design is created by wrapping a weft thread around four ( or sometimes more ) warp strands and then drawing it back and wrapping it around two , a technique of " looped " weaving not dissimilar to the way fishermen make their nets . |
| 14 | The deliberate ambiguity in gender and sexual preference built into images problematizes reality and the normative in a sense not dissimilar to the way that surrealism and pop art ( discussed above ) operate . |
| 15 | The musical term " leitmotiv " is not inappropriate for the way in which Dickens repeats an idiom or expression , under various modifications and transformations , through episodes of a novel , allowing it to accumulate thematic significance as it goes , an illustration on a small scale of his use of dynamic variation in style . |
| 16 | The movie is ambitious in its mix of fantasy and realism , and there 's a sustained central performance from Iain Glen , but the big problem is that the subject himself is not fascinating in the way the Krays were . |
| 17 | While not affectionate in the way other dogs are , when Sadie comes and gently pushes her nose against my leg , I know we have achieved something . |
| 18 | ( a ) The speller , not sure about the way to write a particular sound , chooses a form which is wrong here but correct in a different spelling context : nessessary ( as in lesson ) hows ( house ) ( as in how ) . |
| 19 | The subconscious mind is not haphazard in the way it works to protect you . |
| 20 | God is not present in the way that we are present , in bodily form . |
| 21 | I was not alone in the way I identified with the saga of the March family , nor was I alone in identifying with Jo ( and presumably all readers do ) in her hurts and disappointments , her longings for femininity that clashed with her dreams of independence and achievement ; and in wishing for the ultimate fairness of all things as they were shaped by those nineteenth century moral certainties . |
| 22 | If you are not happy with the way the program has arranged any of the increases or decreases , you can manually adjust them to suit your requirements . |
| 23 | However , he was not happy with the way the NRA had dealt with the campaign . |
| 24 | This counter-proposal , however , was not acceptable to the other states , which were not happy with the way in which the scale of national contributions to the EEC , adopted in 1962 , had operated in practice . |
| 25 | But the victims ' families are not happy with the way the inquest has been handled . |
| 26 | But the families of the victims were not happy with the way the inquest was conducted . |
| 27 | I 'm not happy about the way Banville beat him up , but at least in his absence we 'll be able to see how we manage without him around . ’ |
| 28 | SERAFIN : You are not happy about the way we are proceeding , you told us a moment ago … |
| 29 | as we can cos of the cost side erm I 'm not happy about the way they 've drawn up the writ because it does n't say precisely wh it does n't say what that invoice says it 's only |
| 30 | Overriding all these considerations , however , is her forthright view that these linguistic schemes were ultimately nonsense , for the excellent reason that artificial languages are not compatible with the ways in which man and languages actually operate . |