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| 5 | We also tested an unrelated human osteosarcoma-derived cell line ( 13.1 ; M.P.K. and G. Attardi , unpublished observations , and ref. 18 ) , and it behaved in the same way : the cells could be induced to undergo apoptosis by either serum deprivation or staurosporine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 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | Came round the other way from Decimus Street . ’ |
| 8 | I mean I think you all learnt from the one way system and the fiasco erm of that was actually there . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | No , no ; that sounded too much like the Bible , so she plumped for the simple way and finished , ‘ He has given her a baby . ’ |
| 12 | 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 … |
| 13 | Then calculate the distance walked in the same way as above . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He reported a familiar parental complaint which began in the following way : |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | These deposits are then borrowed and lent in the usual way . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He settled into the new way of life and rarely thought about Manchester , a place where he could not recollect the sun ever shining . |
| 20 | He greeted her very warmly and blushed in the sweetest way when she gave him a sisterly kiss . |
| 21 | Full and economic monetary union could be a problem , handled in the wrong way this could create large unemployment in countries . |
| 22 | Called to attend at 10.15 in the morning , we started in the time-honoured way of civilization with a coffee break . |
| 23 | Most encounters started in the same way , with a question about the bikes . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | As my hon. Friend knows , that was considered carefully by the Army when it looked into the best way to approach the reorganisation . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Neither did he , for the moment , recognise her own diffidence as an indication that she felt in the same way about him . |
| 28 | This created two new corners , which I treated in the same way , and so on till I achieved the shape marked out . |
| 29 | It 's called rape , it 's called indecent assault , it 's it 's um er understood in the same way that sex crimes against adults are understood and erm if you look at um y'know kind of er very young kinds um according to some people called Daley and Wilson , I ca n't remember whether I 've mentioned these on the handout but I 've I 've got some notes here . |
| 30 | The main attraction of the Copernican theory lay in the neat way it explained a number of features of planetary motion , which could be explained in the rival Ptolemaic theory only in an unattractive , artificial way . |