Example sentences of "[v-ing] some way " in BNC.
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1 | Everything seems to be happening some way off , as if behind glass . |
2 | Obispal spotted a lone purestrain Stealer lurking some way down a dismal arcade lined by shuttered clothing stores . |
3 | THE following morning dawned bright and warm and , being weary of towns , I settled on driving some way down the Rhine and then exploring one of the country roads . |
4 | The fourth , perhaps the most important , was in establishing some way of evaluating the material … ( 1971 : 25 . ) |
5 | He looked up from his reading and the beard parted in such a way as to suggest that there might be an affable grimace lying some way behind it . |
6 | Sterling 's suspension from the Exchange Rate Mechanism restored freedom of manoeuvre to the Chancellor , who then celebrated this by going some way to dismantling the interest rates whose exaggerated level was needed to keep sterling in touch with the DM within the ERM . |
7 | The same information will help members of a project team to understand what is going on , and why , strengthening their contribution and going some way to prepare them for the project management role when it comes their way . |
8 | The drop-ship had jarred down , skidding some way ; the hatchramp slammed open . |
9 | The exact title though is only important in one respect , namely in convincing staff of the desirability of having some way of judging and commenting upon performance and gaining their acceptance and co-operation . |
10 | From where will recovery in housing come , with interest rates at their present level , with house prices still having some way to fall and with a huge overhang of unsold houses ? |
11 | During one flash of lightning , I saw a refuge , standing some way behind me . |
12 | The Party 's leaders were held up to the public 's scrutiny ; it was not the Party 's fault that some , those with speech defects in particular , failed to receive the customary standing ovation after their speeches from an enthusiastic conference , or that others , standing some way up the ladder of promotion , were pinched for drunken driving . |
13 | Things were always crystal clear to Beamish ; he was always taking a view or spying out the land or finding some way of pointing out the difference between his world — a universe of sharp corners and exact distances — and the booming , foggy place in which Henry found himself every time he took off his glasses . |
14 | It is tempting to speculate whether Local Government will only reassert its traditional independence from excessive Central Government control by finding some way of becoming much less reliant on Central Government grants . |
15 | Confront the game by finding some way to express the unexpectedness of the behaviour . |
16 | Should not we now bend our efforts to supporting the proposal that the Minister mentioned and to finding some way of compensating those who have lost dearly ? |
17 | Though Churchill frequently spoke ( from 1944 ) in alarming terms of Soviet ambition and conduct , neither his government nor its Labour successor despaired immediately of finding some way to co-exist with the USSR — even when they were confronted by its increasingly heavy-handed and ruthless behaviour in Eastern Europe . |
18 | Trailing some way behind the braver riders , I did n't even get to see a fox , let alone be in at the kill . |
19 | Early returns in the presidential contest showed Santiago leading Ramos by a narrow margin , with Cojuangco trailing some way behind in third place . |
20 | Instead of landing on a sandy beach stretching some way inland , the men were trapped on a rocky shore north and south of the craggy headland of Ari Burnu . |