Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [verb] [art] [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | When researchers want to understand what it is like to be , say , a Moonie , they can submit themselves to the sorts of conditions that a Moonie experiences — so far as these are social ; but the real Moonie can , quite legitimately , protest that if the researcher does not have a personal experience of God or actually know in their heart that it is the Unification Church which has discovered the best way to live , they can not really understand what it is like to be a Moonie . |
| 2 | We must take into account that evidence , as well as the other evidence , which seems to point the other way but has not been statistically upheld and has never been put before us in any form that we could check or examine . |
| 3 | Excessive violence can conveniently be interpreted as paranoia , which makes drugging an acceptable way of handling the behaviour without having to examine anything in the prison system which is causing that behaviour . |
| 4 | She has come a long way from 1755 when John Whiston described her poetry as ‘ extremely fit for young ladies … ‘ |
| 5 | Having successfully made the leap from television to the silver screen , she 's come a long way from her origins in Nowheresville , Nevada , but then Nowheresville , Nevada , sounds a little like Twin Peaks . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ( It 's true , of course , that Sir Fred Hoyle has been writing recently about Earthly plagues that have originated in space , but he has devised an ingenious way of converting this objection into a virtue . |
| 8 | He has come a long way since he worked as a production runner with James Wong Howe and Martin Ritt in a coal-mining village in Pennsylvania . |
| 9 | He has come a long way from the rough-edged , bearded Glaswegian to the rich , Hollywood smoothie , all tan and haircut . |
| 10 | Either way he has come a long way in a very short time , especially for someone who left journalism for PR at the age of 22 after failing to break into daily newspapers . |
| 11 | And although this could have been a problem with Platinum , Mr Nabakov feels he has found an acceptable way around it . |
| 12 | Another dealer explained : ‘ There are some punters who will buy a stock just because it has fallen a long way . ’ |
| 13 | It has come a long way in the last decade . |
| 14 | Although this technique was originally introduced to investigate the relevance of linear stability theory , it has proved a useful way of controlling flow development and ensuring that the same features are to be observed repeatedly at the same place . |
| 15 | clockwise even though it means coming the long way round |
| 16 | ‘ He does have a natural way of dealing with young people . |
| 17 | It does provide an effective way for partners ‘ to accrue capital ’ . |
| 18 | It does seem a sensible way to approach things , possibly . |
| 19 | say , and there 's a one way road coming along , it 's got a two way traffic on the top , but it crosses it |
| 20 | It was then , and still is now , very much an island holiday paradise , but it 's come a long way from what were fairly basic beginnings and in addition to natural beauty can now offer resorts as modern and sophisticated as anywhere else in the Med . |
| 21 | Of course , it 's come a long way since then — full colour on every page , two Megatapes each month . |
| 22 | It 's come a long way |
| 23 | it 's come a long way since we had Lego . |
| 24 | It 's put the other way , I do n't like that . |
| 25 | He 's come a long way since then — but underneath he 's still the same determined , death-defying Barry Sheene . |
| 26 | He 's got a long way to go home , ’ said Ray Shepherd quietly . |
| 27 | The birth was on July 1st and at 7 lb 7 oz he 's got a long way to go to catch up to dad . |
| 28 | He 's got a long way to go to find it . |
| 29 | But he , you see he 's learnt the right way . |