Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] a [adj] way [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another , the scaffold-web spider , rigs a whole series of sticky threads from the branches of a bush down to the ground and hauls each one so tight that if an insect , either walking on the ground or flying a little way above it blunders into one of them , the thread breaks and the victim , stuck to it with glue , is hoisted into the air . |
| 2 | It expresses the resolve of a social group to maintain or change a particular way of life , and to act in accordance with certain ideals . |
| 3 | Now here he was in Simanggang with his mosquito nets , journals , chronometers , compasses , barometer , medicine cabinet , guns and one offspring , out to cure himself or discover a New Way of Thought , whichever would cause most trouble in a world already tormented by too much belief . |
| 4 | Kant 's Critique of Pure Reason ( 1781 ) was just one of the major works that heralded a new way of doing philosophy : the beginning of that critical rationality that Sir Karl Popper so admired and saw as a turning-point in the history of ideas . |
| 5 | He 's also produced language tapes that give a fun way of learning . |
| 6 | Yeah , I mean that seems a plausible way of getting into the , er the job market , er what would Harrison Todaro erm say , you know , because they were saying that this migration , this migration was perfectly rational , despite there being high levels of unemployment . |
| 7 | To meet the needs of piston-engine operators worldwide , a small number of specialist concerns thrive looking after the precious radial engine that go a long way towards making the DC-3 and DC-6 such economic miracle workers . |
| 8 | Reluctant as he was to part with evidence that went a long way to exonerating Colin , he knew surrendering it voluntarily was vastly preferable to having it seized . |
| 9 | Those who question Taylor 's future were left to swallow a performance that went a long way to answering the questions against the England manager . |
| 10 | But the headlining act — a quartet splicing the former Miles Davis guitarist John Scofield with the British saxophonist Andy Sheppard — struck fireworks that went a long way towards helping the audience breathe out after some dodgy moments during the presentations . |
| 11 | But they sweetened their reign of fear with occasional favours and a glaze of authority that went a long way in communities accustomed to neither . |
| 12 | A mother with three young children , with no car and living a long way from a general practitioner 's surgery is almost certain not to consult the doctor as often as she should . |
| 13 | The fifth step in an assertiveness programme involves preparing and rehearsing a different way of responding to the identified situation . |
| 14 | Latvia , in common with other former republics of the now defunct Soviet Union , is looking to the West not only for help but ideas as it tries to rebuild its shattered economy and create a better way of life in a society which has not been used to making decisions for itself . |
| 15 | The sailing ship Roraima arrived at St Pierre early in the morning of Thursday , 8 May , and anchored a little way off shore . |
| 16 | The council must simply rethink it and find a better way of allowing disabled people with cars into town . ’ |
| 17 | In any case , resolved to bring the whole matter to a satisfactory conclusion as quickly as possible , I proceeded further into the library , and stopping a little way from Mr Cardinal 's writing desk , gave a cough . |
| 18 | Indeed , I 'd probably sympathise and go a long way towards agreeing with those propositions if they were put to me . |
| 19 | Now , diver deployment systems are accepted as normal offshore practise , and go a long way to making commercial diving safer . |
| 20 | After one or two walks over the hills together the girl preferred to stay at home so the mother went on her own ; on one of these occasions Peony had actually tidied up and got tea ready and gone a little way along the track to meet her mother when she saw her coming up the hill . |
| 21 | There is now a FastFormat icon which works like a ‘ paintbrush for text ’ and gives a quick way of applying a text attributes from selected text already in your document to any other area you then select . |
| 22 | Dandelion , the dashing story-teller , so eager to be off that he jumped the ditch and ran a little way into the field before stopping to wait for the rest . |
| 23 | A great , black bird was flapping and hopping a little way behind the herd . |
| 24 | At the top of the fountain , the spray breaks up into individual droplets which get carried by the wind and fall a long way from the vent , so that downwind of the fountain there is a shifting curtain of glowing droplets showering down . |
| 25 | Far from being able to produce enough plutonium to make atomic weapons , however , IAEA experts agreed that the plant was " extremely primitive " and remained a long way from completion . |
| 26 | They left Hanssen with the dogs , and skied a little way up the mountains . |
| 27 | Education is seen to include some of this , but goes a long way beyond competence in application . |
| 28 | The new organizational and structural changes proposed in the Act are complex , but go a considerable way to addressing the problems outlined in Chapter 4 . |
| 29 | Environmentalists hailed the decision as going a long way towards meeting the demands of campaigns in favour of preserving Antarctica . |
| 30 | As well as providing a useful way of looking at people 's response to the Earth through the physical structures which have survived , and as a way of interpreting legend , the Spectrum of Response is also a framework into which we can fit our own relationship to the landscape . |