Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of us got caught this way years ago , but I do n't think yarns for weaving are sold at Knitting Shows anymore — at least I have n't heard the complaints that I used to do . |
| 2 | He has clarified this way of working very helpfully ( ibid . ) . |
| 3 | Royston CAB has come some way towards solving the shelf space problem and the updating costs of holding more than one information system in a bureau . |
| 4 | ‘ It looks as if that car has come this way , ’ murmured Mary . |
| 5 | Nature before me has come this way , |
| 6 | The Foreign Office has moved some way towards the French idea that the Western European Union ( WEU ) should become the Community 's forum for defence policy . |
| 7 | The Latin origins of the word refer to a course in the sense of race-course , but its current meaning in education has moved some way from that . |
| 8 | The growth in the labour market flexibility , as employers like to call it , has become another way of describing de-regulation of employment conditions and eroding trade union rights . |
| 9 | Lucker and I spoke very little about it this morning , and it has remained that way . |
| 10 | The Cabinet were much less happy about this , as were Mountbatten 's own staff : however , General Slim , in command of 14th Army , showed more understanding , declaring ( 19 April ) : ‘ Help already given by BNA has gone long way towards expiation of political crimes . ’ |
| 11 | Coming in a week , when an American judge told a rape victim she ‘ deserved what she got ’ for wearing a lace mini-skirt , and an English judge dropped a rape charge because his 16-year-old alleged victim had the mental age of seven , yesterday 's case has gone some way to restore their faith in the justice system . |
| 12 | Although the Brady debt initiative has gone some way to potentially alleviating the debt problems of Chile , Colombia , Costa Rica , Mexico and Uruguay — those countries which have made serious adjustments — two of the biggest debtors , Brazil and Argentina , remain outside the ring . |
| 13 | In two recent articles in Screen , Steve Neale has gone some way towards extending the theorization of film genre along both general and particular lines . |
| 14 | The experimental rig that will be built at the UKAEA 's Harwell base is , ironically , called ACHILLES , The NII agrees that recent work in Canada , West Germany and the United States has gone some way to showing the likely scale of the ballooning effect . |
| 15 | However , another group working in the US believes it has gone some way to understanding the link between high pressures and the superconducting state . |
| 16 | Channel 4 has gone some way to remedying this situation . |
| 17 | This is precisely what the Union has gone some way to doing with its appointment of Glen Ball , Leighton Davies and John Perkins — respectively Neath manager , Maesteg coach and Pontypool coach — to act as Alan Davies 's go-between with the Welsh First Division clubs . |
| 18 | France , however , has gone some way to showing that a judicious space programme — based on modest goals and less than the highest technology of the era — need not be excessively costly . |
| 19 | France has gone some way towards the Canadian pattern . |
| 20 | While English law has gone some way to providing a reasons requirement there are still significant gaps . |
| 21 | Our disposal programme , which has raised approximately £1 billion to date , together with reductions in capital and operating expenditure , has gone some way to improving gearing and strengthening our balance sheet . |
| 22 | The Minister has gone some way towards allaying those fears by adding the proviso that any money from disposals should be used for the acquisition of further works . |
| 23 | and Mr Potter has gone some way to acknowledging that in saying that the circumstances may change . |
| 24 | And a cobweb across an entrance hole tells you that nobody has passed that way for the past few hours , but little more . |
| 25 | ‘ Pool has suggested another way , ’ she said . |
| 26 | If you 'd gone that way . |
| 27 | Denis , who watched my part of the show every night , would often give me odd notes on inflections he 'd have preferred done another way or phrasing he thought I could improve on . |
| 28 | ‘ It must have fallen that way . |
| 29 | Follow the blue posts until the track meets an obvious forestry road , and as a reward for having come this way , a wooden seat . |
| 30 | D c c could you have visualized any way in which production could have been controlled apart from his down about a certain amount ? |