Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [verb] [art] [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | The arithmetic alone shows that this Government is only prone to defeat when there is an issue over which all the non-government parties intend to vote the same way ( ie including the Official and Democratic Unionists , plus the self-styled popular Unionist , Sir James Kilfedder ) and where that total is topped up by a dozen or so Tory malcontents . |
| 2 | In the mountain-top refuge of Karfi , a few straggling survivors tried to keep the Minoan way of life going , but it had fallen into lifeless stereotypes . |
| 3 | Many organizations have gone the whole way and created entirely different systems for each of these needs . |
| 4 | The only difficulty you might face is in getting the right look — doors that match the style of your house — but manufacturers have come a long way from the early aluminium-framed types , and a range of styles is now available . |
| 5 | But manufacturers have come a long way from the aluminium-framed picture windows that disfigured so many homes in the early days of the replacement window boom , and a wide range of window styles is now available . |
| 6 | But if the means of communication have moved in a more public direction , the images have gone the other way . |
| 7 | However , although we believe that a reform along these lines does offer the best way forward , it is appropriate to note some of the possible drawbacks . |
| 8 | The Inspirals have come a long way from 1989 's full-tilt three-minute organ romp early days . |
| 9 | I merely note that other European countries have found an alternative way of living which , as it happens , for whatever reason , has resulted in their enjoying higher standards of living than on the whole do EEC members . |
| 10 | Wintec and Thorowgood saddles have come a long way since early designs and Thorowgood also make wipe-clean bridles that look smart enough for most occasions . |
| 11 | DANDELIONS have come a long way in Darlington . |
| 12 | The Thatcher governments have gone a long way towards puncturing claims about the power of the unions . |
| 13 | Hard-hit farmers have discovered a new way to make money … by turning their fields into racing circuits . |
| 14 | Modern petrological studies have gone a long way towards answering this question : polished hard-rock axes seem to have been made from stone obtained from a limited number of outcrops . |
| 15 | For this reason , long leases have become the usual way of owning individual flats and other properties with shared facilities … |
| 16 | And while the original Ethernet spec was a lowest-common-denominator approach , using the crudest cable and a distinctly modest data rate , things have come a long way since then . |
| 17 | I mean unfortunately the authority in days gone by has benefited from the scheme in the sense that the extra , extra money in service in truth , the revenue was there , erm , the chickens have come home to roost in the sense that it 's , the tables have turned the other way , and I mean , gone are the days where , when we 're least worried out that impact that , that , that much more of our er , of our budget . |
| 18 | Of course photographic techniques HAVE come a long way since Ponting 's day . |
| 19 | Or will governors consider taking the easy way out ( and the cheapest ) and appoint a local teacher , who has perhaps proved an adequate supply teacher in the recent past ? |
| 20 | Many of the teachers began acting the same way , believing the Headmaster might punish them too if they did n't follow his example . |
| 21 | That newspapers had come a long way in the interim period was beyond doubt ; that they were to travel even further was to be confirmed by the manner in which the Cadburys disposed of the News Chronicle in 1960 . |
| 22 | There is ample room within the synaptic interactions of even 20,000 neurons for their properties to be those of the system rather than of its individual cells , and claims which were once popular that within insect and crustacean nervous systems one could find key ‘ command ’ neurons have gone the same way as , in eastern Europe , parallel enthusiasm for ‘ command economies ’ — that is , they turn out to be not a good way to organize individual behaviour any more than to run a country . |
| 23 | JAPANESE scientists have discovered a new way of dating the fossils of crustaceans and animals by measuring changes in an amino acid called isoleucine . |
| 24 | And in Israel , scientists have discovered a new way of producing an anti-clotting agent for use during surgery — simply by milking the ordinary leech . |
| 25 | Simulators have come a long way in recent years and today many of them use screen addressing to update the information . |
| 26 | I shall then draw on my own experience to explore which of these two approaches seems to offer the best way forward , and consider what the implications might be for any future evaluation . |
| 27 | The Carolingians had come a long way from the single ancestral beer-hall : the chief officers would invite groups of the young men to their houses ( mansiones ) for dinner , " not to encourage gluttony , but for the sake of promoting true rapport ; and rarely would a week go by without each [ youth ] receiving one such invitation from someone " . |
| 28 | Cider and culinary apple orchards have gone the same way , all helped along until a few years ago by government grants to grub up the old trees and replace them with easy to spray , prune and pick bush types . |
| 29 | First we felt that women have come a long way given the very radical and novel nature of their demands to enter public life as individuals in their own right . |
| 30 | Well , there are all kinds of cures , from yoga to yodelling , but employees of Oxfordshire Social Services have discovered a new way of shedding the cares of the day . |