Example sentences of "a [adj] [conj] [adv] [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | A simpler and more pleasant way of achieving the same end was to use jade vessels for food and drink . |
| 2 | A further and very different way in which Figure 9 is incomplete is that it deals only with the processing of words and has nothing to say about the processing of non-words . |
| 3 | The new Patents County Court provides , hopefully , a speedier and less expensive way of pursuing smaller claims . |
| 4 | The greatest surprise came when in 1935 Warner Bros released Black Fury , a movie which depicted in a direct and totally unprecedented way the impact of a strike on a coal-mining community . |
| 5 | Decorating a sheet of music with some pressed flowers is a charming and most unusual way of remembering a favourite song or composer . |
| 6 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that those figures strikingly demonstrate that lower , rather than higher , tax rates are at once a fairer and more effective way to maximise revenue to sustain improvement in important public services ? |
| 7 | There is a second and more important way in which corporate organizations and wealthy individuals use financial muscle to weaken electoral competition , namely , their ownership and control of the mass media . |
| 8 | This function they performed only in a limited and highly conservative way ; but there was hardly any other institution in France which could perform it at all . |
| 9 | For the first days , weeks even , I carried on in a light-headed and even giddy way . |
| 10 | In Halliday and Hasan 's model of cohesion , reference is used in a similar but more restricted way . |
| 11 | By displaying numbers in a simple and visually revealing way such as , for example , the graph/table hybrid known as ‘ stem and leaf ’ , it is possible to see obvious patterns quickly and focus harder on more puzzling aspects of the data ( Erickson and Nosanchuk 1977 : 20 ) . |
| 12 | But the book does explore the emotional effect that this major change has on a small boy 's life in a clever and very unusual way . |
| 13 | Briefly , the code of practice specifies standards for providing wholesome water , for supplying a constant water supply at the appropriate water pressure , and for treating sewage in a comprehensive and environmentally sensitive way . |
| 14 | The centre has an annual budget of £14 million and is pioneering research into a " topping cycle " which could produce a cheaper and more efficient way of burning coal in power stations . |
| 15 | In the long run , that would be a cheaper and more effective way of dealing with the issue . |
| 16 | The Optical Mark Reader , produced by Johnson and Pinnock , at £5,000 to £6,000 , is a cheaper and more effective way of keeping track of students . |
| 17 | It is a cheaper and more reliable way of getting information about jobs or workers . |
| 18 | It was quite refreshing to see and read that someone else saw these things and could articulate them in a better and more entertaining way than I could |
| 19 | A better and more organised way of handling the music feed , though , is to pre-record it onto a cued sound tape which can then be fed to the mixer non-stop . |
| 20 | A third small group is encountered near the beginning , in a Florida town ( along with the alligator ) , moving about in a desultory but slightly menacing way . |
| 21 | Indeed , there is a danger that , in the very attempt to entertain its public , a museum may well be tempted to treat its subject matter in a superficial and even frivolous way . |
| 22 | Then night falls and , by the light of the moon , you can just make out shapes and outlines — the scene is still beautiful but in a calmer and less vibrant way . |
| 23 | The books are written in what would seem to some today to be a slow and overly elaborate way — who after all uses words such as ‘ eleemosynary ’ ? — but he explores all of his characters thoroughly and gives lots of detail which , though not absolutely necessary and sometimes totally irrelevant , make the novel more personal and make the readers feel that they know the characters . |
| 24 | If this was a challenge the American film industry reacted to it in a determined and ultimately triumphant way . |
| 25 | Hence far from state welfare being a morally superior form of meeting social needs , as claimed by Fabian socialists , for the New Right state welfare is paternalistic and morally bankrupt , rationing resources in a biased and potentially discriminatory way . |
| 26 | They were expressions sometimes of pique and envy and sometimes of an essential regenerative process that caused a return to a stricter and more austere way of life and observance . |
| 27 | As was seen with EDFAX and COMMUNITEL , the applications in various subjects ( e.g. FLEET STREET EDITOR has maps in its Graphics Library which could be used in Geography ) are limitless and school librarians and teachers can encourage pupils to use the technology in a new and educationally productive way . |
| 28 | But now , almost fifty years later , we have discovered a new and more natural way to stay dry . |
| 29 | To the general public , it looked like a cheap and particularly horrendous way of gaining publicity . |
| 30 | Although the client suggested a Victorian-style treatment , similar to a recent conversion a few doors away , the architects were determined to convert the building in a sympathetic but thoroughly modern way , on the limited budget which was available . |