Example sentences of "way [adv prt] of the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is at hand a convenient way out of the present morass . |
| 2 | Short of battering him on the head with a blunt instrument — the thought held immense appeal , and she savoured it for a long moment , before reluctantly putting it on hold — she could n't come up with any way out of the present situation . |
| 3 | There would be no wild charm in the situation — with her own thought and skill to tame the dangers — but a possible way out of the present disaster . |
| 4 | Boutros-Ghali proposed that France and Indonesia ( co-chairs of the Paris conference ) , in co-operation with Yasushi Akashi , chief co-ordinator of the UN Transitional Authority in Cambodia ( UNTAC ) , undertake consultations with the aim of " finding a way out of the present impasse " . |
| 5 | SCOTLAND 's engineering sector is still resolutely clawing its way out of the recessionary pit , according to the latest quarterly review issued yesterday by Scottish Engineering , the employers ' organisation . |
| 6 | The Government has to realise that the only way out of the current crisis is to let local authorities take the initiative . ’ |
| 7 | Suddenly , she was fighting her way out of the hot embrace , pushing at his hard shoulders , her swollen lips muttering , ‘ No ! |
| 8 | inability to find a way out of the financial tangle that they were in . |
| 9 | There is no way out of the Upper Kirk other than scrambling to the left or right on to the higher ground . |
| 10 | If the search problem in speech is indeed such that A* starts to behave like breadth-first , then the only way out of the combinatorial explosion produced by breadth-first search is to keep the search tree small . |
| 11 | Damsell 's Mill is a little way out of the picturesque town of Painswick . |
| 12 | Most of the bigger hotels in Kos have been built a little way out of the old town and the Bohem is about 15 minutes from the far side of Heaven ( the disco ) ! |
| 13 | While Byrne considered that Caroline Spurgeon 's " imagery analysis " offered a way out of the stylistic nightmare , critics of the English " establishment " were not so impressed , as Francis Mulhern has noted : |
| 14 | I started to walk a way out of the main bedroom and I heard P C say words to the effect of get down and I turned round to see what was going on and the man was trying to roll over to get up or that 's what I thought , erm not kicking or or fighting or anything but just to me it looked as though he was going to get up and I went back and with my hands just pushed down onto him and said stay there , it will all be explained er and then walked away . |
| 15 | ( Several delegates were heard to mutter , ‘ Surely that write-off/obsolescence figure was too low ’ , as they made their way out of the main meeting room . ) |
| 16 | A way out of the WIC problem — possibly involving a cross shareholding with Heineken — could win investors back to Whitbread . |
| 17 | Which implies that these must be precipitated in some way out of the marine environment . |
| 18 | But the scale of the rehabilitation-3,500 pieces of glass needing replacement , special cutting of the brick stocks — drove the costs way out of the original ball park . |
| 19 | The invitation to the superpowers , if approved at the Central American summit which opened belatedly here yesterday , could provide a way out of the continuing confrontation between the US and the Sandinistas and ensure free elections in Nicaragua in February . |
| 20 | The invitation to the superpowers , if approved at the Central American summit which opened belatedly here yesterday , could provide a way out of the continuing confrontation between the US and the Sandinistas and ensure free elections in Nicaragua in February . |
| 21 | The boredom , the sheer yuk of it swept over me as I pushed my way out of the sick smell of the phone box . |