Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] [verb] a [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Silver and I followed a long way behind the rest , and I had to help him . |
| 2 | Gather together enough antimatter , and you have a cheap way of travelling to the stars — because obviously the only energy you would be using would be gravitational , of which there is plenty available in the Universe . |
| 3 | And she had a sure-fire way of handling the tough Northern audiences . |
| 4 | This institution should need no introduction to FlyPast readers and we present a classic way to fill a stocking . |
| 5 | This leads me to believe that the questions surrounding male/female relationships are not simple , and we have a long way to go before we can simply pursue the ‘ if only men would ’ formula . |
| 6 | In an ideal world we would be recycling and re-using everything , but this is n't possible and we have a long way to go before we can turn all our waste into a resource . |
| 7 | The new proposals on water competition were introduced following our discussion in Committee , and they go a long way to improving competition in the water industry . |
| 8 | Twenty years too late and they found a thousand ways to stop the rise of Hitler , it was the only way for them to keep sane , the survivors . |
| 9 | James was his name , and he had a wonderful way with a poem or a recitation , and could remember dozens of really stirring examples . |
| 10 | Her nephew , Tim , was Miss Miggs 's only relative , and he lived a long way away up in the North . |
| 11 | But he is derisive about English defenders and he has a descriptive way of saying so . |
| 12 | It was only when I was almost in despair that I recalled having seen a letter written by a knitter from overseas , about an easy way to make cables and it seemed a pleasant way to take a break by referring back a few months until I found the letter from — you 've guessed it — June Shaw . |
| 13 | When the constable called , he left his bicycle leaning against the signalbox wall and it screeched a little way along the wall before coming to a rest ; the sound was to remain in Mr Daubney 's memory for reasons that will be revealed . |
| 14 | But she had a better way of relaxing the tightness that started at the back of her neck and spread across the crown of her head than attempting sleep . |
| 15 | The majority of people were sympathetic , but we had a long way to go before people would be shouting ‘ Honte à la reine Britannique ’ in the streets . |
| 16 | Perhaps we are just beginning to see how the brain works , but we have a long way to go . |
| 17 | ‘ We have somewhere between £22,000 and £23,000 in the bank and there is cash still to come in , but we have a long way to go . ’ |
| 18 | These may seem trivial examples , but they go a long way towards helping teachers assess the success of different parts of the school in which they work and , ultimately , that of the whole institution . |
| 19 | Estimates based on demographic pressures , advances in medical technology and the costs of implementing new government policies ( such as the introduction of new screening programmes ) also have their drawbacks , but they represent a pragmatic way of estimating whether funding has been adequate to keep pace with demand pressures . |
| 20 | Unfortunately , as this book points out , some of the alternatives may look good on paper but they have a long way to go before they can match the tokamak . |
| 21 | But they have a long way to recover . |
| 22 | Jarvis was an eccentric and in the opinion of many who knew him a very strange man , but he had a quiet way of getting on with things . |
| 23 | But he came a long way round from a long way back , and O'Brien , by no means a habitual blamer of jockeys , is still convinced they should have won . |
| 24 | But he went a little way towards pacifying their incensed tour management when adding : ‘ We were beaten and have no complaints . ’ |
| 25 | But he has a long way to go to close down Sir Teddy 's 15,000 majority . |
| 26 | This is a bit of a mouthful , but it provides a systematic way of describing relationships as positive or negative ; it reminds us , for example , whether young people are more or less likely to contemplate breaking the law . |