Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [verb] a [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | No Hiding Place Sitting containers on pallets or bricks goes a long way toward preventing them from harbouring all kinds of pests under their bottoms . |
| 2 | In Committee , the Minister invariably points out that Parliament has a simple way of dealing with orders and that we should stick to it . |
| 3 | Fortunately , his colleagues are n't so averse to a spot of enunciation : if Verve have got a nerve and Adorable have the babble than Suede have a warming way with words that 's more matter-of-fact than mad as a hatter . |
| 4 | It is high time to abandon that caricature , too long perpetuated by dictionary definitions such as the one you quote from Chambers , both for the sake of historical justice and because , in the present as in the past , anti-Pharisaism and anti-Judaism have a nasty way of feeding on each other . |
| 5 | Their staff were generally willing to ‘ have a go ’ , and with some information and support went a long way in challenging their own attitudes and those of other children and parents . |
| 6 | Such difficult transition demands time and balance and Romania has a long way to go before it is comfortable with its new identity . |
| 7 | Owen and Georgiades went a little way off and squatted down beneath the trees to wait . |
| 8 | Notions of similarity and the recognition of rhymes and rhythms present a possible way in which such orderings might be achieved . |
| 9 | The endlessly repetitive cropping and grinding becomes a whole way of life , dominating the daily routine of such animals as rabbits and hares , some rodents , marsupials such as kangaroos and wallabies , many ungulates and , among invertebrates , the grasshoppers and locusts . |
| 10 | Hazel and Fiver went a short way above ground and then into a wide open hole in a sand patch and so down , by various runs , until they were thirty feet into the wood , among the roots of an oak . |
| 11 | But Stewart dived a long way to his left to scoop up the ball one handed just inches from the turf . |
| 12 | But Scotland has a long way to go before the symbiosis of locals and visitors becomes a reality . |
| 13 | The but -test provides a convenient way of illustrating this ; all the sentences in 2 are pleonastic ; |
| 14 | The use of futures and/or options offers a quick way of hedging this and other risks by creating future positions which offset those in the cash market . |