Example sentences of "[adj] way [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you knew what the combination of circumstances were , then you could perhaps re-do your spreadsheet with a different way to avoid it . |
| 2 | This is the result of released muscle tension ; gravity affects the body in a different way making it much easier to use . |
| 3 | In the long hours when there were no customers to show she was expected to lend a hand with some of the unskilled tasks — running errands and making tea , unpicking a seam or a hem , even sewing on a button or a hook and eye when she had been taught the proper way to do it . |
| 4 | We have always said that the proper way to do it is to have the service areas there and ready to open on the day the motorway itself is opened to traffic . |
| 5 | brick inset was all the brick and then plastered over and that gave the black and white effect , but that was the original and the , the proper way to do it |
| 6 | I scrambled to my feet , forcing the turban over my eyes and bending the feather till it stuck out like a pan-handle , went nervously into the comedy routine and finished by singing , ‘ If There 's a Wrong Way to Do It ’ and walking into the proscenium arch . |
| 7 | There is no right or wrong way to do it and the timing is never easy or ideal . |
| 8 | However , in devising its method of collecting poll tax , in the words of that famous song , ’ If there was a wrong way to do it , the right way to screw it , ’ nobody did it like Nottingham . |
| 9 | Carr : Well , I think a ‘ Keener ’ price is probably the wrong way to put it . |
| 10 | We can either that 's the wrong way to phrase it . |
| 11 | I have always said the people were right in what they asked ; but you went the wrong way to get it . ’ |
| 12 | It sounded such a stilted way to put it , but he could n't find a different approach at the moment . |
| 13 | If one decides to give away £5m to encourage the arts , I do not think that it is a very sensible way to give it to my noble friend Lord Archer , who is a very rich man already , and who gets £6,000 a year out of the pockets of taxpayers who are very much poorer than he is . ’ |
| 14 | That 's the , the sensible way to do it . |
| 15 | Now , that , to me , is the sensible way to do it . |
| 16 | One simple way to prevent it would be to fit a broad-band electrical filter next to every electricity meter . |
| 17 | The easy way to remember it is that for a ‘ lesser ’ number of degrees , you turn ‘ left ’ , e.g. turning from 350° to 320° is turning to a lesser number and therefore you turn left . |
| 18 | The easy way to remember it is : |
| 19 | The easy way to remember it |
| 20 | Bid to get rid , so bid is the selling price , is the easy way to remember it . |
| 21 | Let's get twelve coins this is the easy way to do it I think . |
| 22 | Easy way to do it is if we 've got one |
| 23 | So you 're trying to find out one fifth well you just divide it by five it 's the easy way to do it . |
| 24 | But what an ironic way to set it up . |
| 25 | She hoped people would want to try for the Number Power certificate as they learn and has even joined herself : ‘ I have always been rotten at maths but this is the ideal way to do it , ’ she said . |
| 26 | The dedication was a gesture of pained sorrow at his father 's death as much as an act of filial piety , and the natural way to do it was to reproduce the style and character of his essentially Edwardian father . |
| 27 | This hesitation seems to be due to something about what knowledge is , and there is no obvious way to explain it if knowledge is as the tripartite conception claims it to be . |
| 28 | Simon said : ‘ We knew that the group needed cash and this seemed a challenging way to raise it . ’ |
| 29 | Nonetheless , he tried to find some comforting way to explain it : maybe the Israelis had set up some sort of contingency fund . |
| 30 | I appreciate that 's a useful way to discuss it , but let's not imagine it 's necessarily going to turn out like that . |