Example sentences of "they [be] [adv] a [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many thousands of earthquakes can be recorded along the ridges in any one year and a few of these are quite severe , but since they are generally a long way from anywhere , they do n't hit the headlines . |
| 2 | In man this is very clear , for although a child may be sexually mature and fully grown quite early on in his or her teens , they are still a long way from any degree of emotional maturity . |
| 3 | Small , little-known groups do n't generally muster a large audience , of course , but they are often a good way of commanding interest from future employers . |
| 4 | They are actually a long way behind the rest of Europe . |
| 5 | IPSWICH Town may have had their minds on Saturday 's sixth round FA Cup tie against Arsenal because they were certainly a long way below their best against struggling Middlesbrough at Portman Road last night . |
| 6 | Whoever the child-murdering Mingrelians might be they were certainly a long way away . |
| 7 | They were usually a long way from the London merchants who set up as gentry , but this group represented nonetheless a significant local urban aristocracy . |
| 8 | But they were undoubtedly a constructive way of bringing labour and capital together to resolve their problems peacefully in an atmosphere of mutual recognition and compromise.For this reason , given that employers and governments were willing to accept that trade unions had a function and that they had come to stay , they appeared to the Labour Department of the Board of Trade as its functions developed in the early years of the twentieth century , to be especially useful in dealing with some of the conflicts between labour and capital in which it increasingly became involved . |
| 9 | It was already almost five o'clock when they were only a little way past Bath . |