Example sentences of "a way [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The motorbikes clear a way but fans still jump into the road , running behind their favourites and pushing them . |
| 2 | But er some of the exhibitions at the great er World Fair were really , there were some splendid things , although the main er theme of the thing was n't so grandio well it was grandiose in a way but just too much so . |
| 3 | It was like a rainbow in a way but it was far softer and more frail , hanging there in the mist like some ray of home . |
| 4 | calling in a way but you 've got |
| 5 | Now a daft question in a way but how do we know it 's Tower Bridge ? |
| 6 | Erm it really is they should have should have t been more careful in a way but And this you see is a fairly goodirly goody good ey seem |
| 7 | And and one that I you know , I 've in a way but er I thought well it 's er |
| 8 | Do n't really do n't really care to tell you the truth in a way but |
| 9 | And Lee says she 's tight with money in a way but if , no she , but she 's very careful with her money . |
| 10 | once was tried in a way but a Judge , er , tumbled to it , and it was at Leicester Castle . |
| 11 | The Imperial is marked with an X , If you were starting form the shop turn left down Elland Road and keep going straight ( uphill ) for quite a way before you reach a T junction . |
| 12 | The Imperial is marked with an X , If you were starting form the shop turn left down Elland Road and keep going straight ( uphill ) for quite a way before you reach a T junction . |
| 13 | The idea of recycled clothes seemed more exciting in a way than modern clothes . |
| 14 | The secret is the human voice — at once intimate and personal to you — much more magic in a way than the announcer on TV backed by his hi-tech coloured images flashing across the screen or pictures of the events being described — all of which may actually lessen the feeling of personal involvement . |
| 15 | But they are a reality which Naipaul treats in such a way that they , too , can at times seem phantasmagorical . |
| 16 | We may be meant to think that time is simultaneous , in a way that may owe something to the simultaneity propounded , ‘ perhaps ’ , in Eliot 's Four Quartets , where ‘ History is now and England ’ ; or that it is cyclical , a turning wheel , with human depravity paling into insignificance as the wheel turns into modern times . |
| 17 | It centres the classical traditions in a way that no other kind of training can do . |
| 18 | Playing Richard III combines both of these features for you in a way that makes your point . |
| 19 | I do n't want to ‘ politicize ’ the homeless in a way that makes them look like the front-line infantry fighting a barbaric government , which is a line some people have taken , simply because when you 're out there , it just is n't like that . |
| 20 | Three days before she came back , I cleaned the flat , bought a new jacket and five bright new cotton shirts , stayed sober , worked like hell on the magazine in a way that made Francis ‘ gasp and stretch his eyes ’ . |
| 21 | When I offer you champagne you laugh in a way that only you have , like a stream all at once a delighted cascade into this deep swirling pool of warm humour . |
| 22 | A thrusting action should accompany all linear punches and kicks , since it is believed to be related to potential power in a way that a snapping action is not . |
| 23 | The front leg then lifts into a roundhouse kick and drops in such a way that the hips are cocked for a powerful reverse punch . |
| 24 | Midges drawn by the smell of their sweat swarmed round their heads and young Angus began to regret his curiosity , but his father 's face was set and dark in a way that froze out complaints , or chatter of any kind . |
| 25 | Recent work has confined that it is not possible to measure intensity of subjective sensation in a way that is distinct from and independent of measurement of the physical stimulus from which it is derived ; that Fechner 's logarithmic transform exists only as a mathematical construction to link reports of sensations with measurements of stimuli ; and an experimental subject 's conformity to Stevens ' power law depends on his getting the experiment ‘ right ’ . |
| 26 | It was dirty and shoddy in a way that was very symbolic of New York : square blocks , square buildings , several storeys higher than English ones , packed full of people , no yards , no gardens , not even mingy ones with soot covered plants . |
| 27 | Edberg moves gracefully and speedily over the grass in a way that would surely be the envy of a Torville and Dean . |
| 28 | Can certain individuals be directed in such a way that they stand out from the mass because they are the tellers of the story , the chief exponents in the drama or theme ? |
| 29 | It is particularly appropriate in the case of a ballet that tells a story where the libretto has to be set out in such a way that the action can be logically developed and each item roughly timed . |
| 30 | The choreographer must learn the natural functioning of the dancers ' bodies in order to combine steps and poses in a way that gives quality to the whole . |