Example sentences of "a [adj] way [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We can but of course it wo n't be as easy for us to get away once Maggie is gone , ’ she said it in a pleasant way that sometimes humoured him and sometimes could put his teeth on edge . |
| 2 | For just two-coloured stripes you can still work in regular row sections but if you have the purl side as the right side the stripes blur in a pleasant way and merge toning colours splendidly . |
| 3 | He stared straight at Elizabeth in a friendly way and said , in a voice of quiet affection : ‘ My friend . ’ |
| 4 | The men continued their conversation in a friendly way until Joe stood up to leave , and took my hand . |
| 5 | ‘ Now Kathleen ’ , she says , ‘ there 's a right way and a wrong way to do everything ’ , and she showed me how to wring out a cloth … |
| 6 | For example , there is a right way and a wrong way of answering a stranger who has asked you for the time . |
| 7 | Yeah if you have to learn how to do something properly , there 's a right way and a wrong way . |
| 8 | However , she could only get up a little way before she tumbled backwards , as the jar had a heavy glass base which proved impossible to overbalance . |
| 9 | She advanced a little way and then simply stopped , her head inclined , her eyes appearing to take in every detail of him . |
| 10 | I 'll go with him a little way and perhaps we can talk . |
| 11 | When feeding characteristically run a little way and then stop , often bobbing head nervously ; head held up as if listening , not down like Knot ( p. 129 ) or Dunlin ( p. 127 ) . |
| 12 | The door of the room opened a little way and a large tabby cat insinuated itself through the gap . |
| 13 | erm , she made me bend my head and I could only bend it a little way and she could see the spasms |
| 14 | You know , they might just get up a little way and then some bureaucracy knocks them down again and they 're back where they started . |
| 15 | I smiled back in a half-witted way that would have terrified a woman of less spirit . |
| 16 | This apparently innocuous theory ran into trouble in a French village on an occasion when wheat was grown in a normal way , converted into bread in a normal way and yet most people who ate the bread became seriously ill and many died . |
| 17 | And it is certain that the development of level three partnerships is dependent upon not just a rethinking by the sector partners but by government and its role in education and training — a process which has undoubtedly begun , but in a fitful way and without truly fundamental thinking . |
| 18 | Applying GAAP is a very practical guide , tackling each standard in a concise way and forming a complete reference source . |
| 19 | When you are made aware of this you can consciously choose not to react in a stressed way and you will therefore be able to maintain a calmness even when life becomes hectic . |
| 20 | At first she treated his request in a light-hearted way and broke into a fit of giggles . |
| 21 | We ca n't get rid of the horror and the fears , but we can do something to increase our competence in dealing with it and facing it , which I think is a healthier way than freezing , flying away from it , or fighting it . |
| 22 | ‘ In a strange way that was very moving , ’ Chris said . |
| 23 | Every time the car went round a corner you had to turn the whole radio round to face a different way That was the only way you could get half-decent reception . |
| 24 | The secret is to use the claw weight in a different way than that illustrated in the instructions . |
| 25 | Er I merely want to comment on the erm apparent misunderstanding on my comments on windfalls earlier on , erm it has been suggested that we we 're tightening down on windfalls , was the quote actually used , erm , there is no intention in the local plan to er ignore the er windfalls , to actually deal with them in a different way than had happened in the past , clearly if sites come forward which are windfalls which are suitable in environmental terms then the City Council will give , as P B G one requires , the appropriate consideration to those applications , what I was merely saying this morning was the the likelihood of such windfalls coming forward , and the scale was clearly going to be substantially less than had occurred in the past , and the the figure of eighty a eighty a year , which was for a five year period , which was quoted to me , erm clearly would not be representative of my expectation of the future . |
| 26 | I wonder if I could answer that in a in a different way because clearly rather there 's the option , rather than reduction the operational capability which was really the er initiative that had begun in nineteen ninety two , there is the option of course of er adjusting the total numbers and that would er have an overall bearing on the total programme cost but cert because certainly the judgement of the er the chiefs of staff was that er as far as the U K was concerned then we we should retain the operational capability as I explained earlier an n and not decrease it in any significant extent because if we did that then we could end up er with an inferior capability against a potential threat . |
| 27 | Another friend , ‘ E ’ , reacted in a different way when I told her . |
| 28 | I 'll have been feeling in a different way when I 've painted something three months ago , so it would be wrong to go back and work on it again . |
| 29 | With eights and nines off his card , he was making mostly the same numbers as everyone else , just in a different way and order . |
| 30 | He suggests that teams may eventually evolve new rucking and mauling habits and learn to play the game in a different way and at a different pace . |