Example sentences of "the [adj] way [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now did you get the the couplers the right way round on the erm ? |
| 2 | It 's doing everything the wrong way round at the wrong time . |
| 3 | If the l.e.d. does not light , it has probably been inserted the wrong way round in the circuit — reverse its leads and try again . |
| 4 | The track from Dent Town up Flinter Gill on to the " Ocky " , as locals call it , is an old green lane , with rough boulders and stones paving the steep way out of the dale used in former days by packhorse trains and coal-carts coming over from Ingleton and Barbondale . |
| 5 | Endill told him the quickest way out of the school . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's so hard to change the status quo that borrowing is always the easy way out in the short term , ’ says Guido Tabellini , Professor of Economics at the University of Brescia . |
| 7 | So that viewed from the purl side it 's the opposite way round to the mylar sheet , while on the knit side it 's the same way round as the mylar sheet of course . |
| 8 | Just try and remember what we were doing but the pig about resistance is it 's one over and think ooh we 're all into weird fractions and everything seems to work the opposite way round to the way you 'd expect it . |
| 9 | The exemption works the opposite way round to the expert customer test ( see page 37 above ) . |
| 10 | Without it , the high concentration gradient between layers , compared with the temperature gradient , would give a higher salt transport than heat transport — the opposite way round from the relationship needed to sustain the convection . |
| 11 | With the first of the ovens he 'd gone the long way through to the Hall 's kitchens , taking in the sights as he went . |
| 12 | Rob 's group had to walk the long way round into the Jabri Nullah and was rewarded by several days of good skiing . |
| 13 | ‘ Never mind , ’ said Mummy , as they went home in the bus — the long way round by the main road , from which they had to walk to Applewick . |
| 14 | Iago dug his heels into his fat pony 's ribs , and took the shortest way down into the Dee valley , riding hard for Shrewsbury . |
| 15 | The only way up to the first floor from inside the works was via a ladder , which had started life as one of The Salisbury Volunteer Fire Brigade escapes , probably acquired by Mr. Farr during his service as a fireman in the early years of the century . |
| 16 | Commentators said Mr Egon Krenz , the new party leader and head of state , and the politburo would now have to act swiftly to call free elections as the only way out of the crisis . |
| 17 | Although a national unity government would not necessarily be the answer to some of Greece 's problems it is the only way out of the current political impasse if the weary Greek voter is to be saved from going to the polls again . |
| 18 | I found myself aground in the middle of the loch , firmly wedged on one such stump , and the only way out of the problem was to leap overboard and shove . |
| 19 | Such an agreement may in political terms be the only way out of the impasse in which the teachers find themselves . |
| 20 | The only way out of the dilemma is to suppose that sometimes the photon gets through and sometimes it does not . |
| 21 | Public opposition to economic liberalization and an austerity programme and continued criticism , especially from Islamic fundamentalists , of the RCD 's continued domination of domestic affairs , was counterbalanced later in the year by the regime 's identification with popular support for Iraq in the Gulf war ( although the official stance was that an " Arab solution " was the only way out of the crisis ) . |
| 22 | If the search problem in speech is indeed such that A* starts to behave like breadth-first , then the only way out of the combinatorial explosion produced by breadth-first search is to keep the search tree small . |
| 23 | The Government has to realise that the only way out of the current crisis is to let local authorities take the initiative . ’ |
| 24 | The full foliage of May did not burn , but the mould of dry , dead leaves and brushwood on the ground caught fiercely , and flared down upon them so fast that they were forced to turn and run , having no time to take the harder way up to the crest . |
| 25 | Note that buzzer , WD1 , is polarity-sensitive and must be connected the correct way round in the circuit or it will not work — the red wire is the positive one . |
| 26 | Plot the two variables in figure 10.2 the other way round from the plot in figure 10.3 , as if one wanted to predict the mortality rate from the chronic sickness rate . |
| 27 | We try to formulate policies that 'll meet the needs of the people who speak to us and then we use officers , not to make necessarily proposals on policies , but to help us to work out the financial ways of achieving those policies , so that 's almost the other way round from the way that John outlined . |
| 28 | We 'll go the other way down to the superstore because there 's traffic lights down at the end of our road . |
| 29 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that increasing expenditure on day one of a new Government while failing to deal with the important issue of taxation is the fastest way back to the high levels of inflation which characterised all Labour Governments ? |