Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | pulls you up do that goes that way , does that goes that way so you 're upside down you see , you 've not only got weight and gravity pulling you down you 've also got the thrust of the engine pulling you down as well , and the only way the helicopters going to be able to do it is by getting enough height so they can sort of drop like that and they start dropping and they can just pull it back |
| 2 | pulls you up do that goes that way , does that goes that way so you 're upside down you see , you 've not only got weight and gravity pulling you down you 've also got the thrust of the engine pulling you down as well , and the only way the helicopters going to be able to do it is by getting enough height so they can sort of drop like that and they start dropping and they can just pull it back |
| 3 | I hope that that goes some way to meeting my hon. Friend 's points . |
| 4 | His position is that we should think of rules as practices , as ways of behaving , and not suppose that to support this way of behaving there must be some internal interpretation of the rule which tells the rule-followers how to work the rule . |
| 5 | So , it , it 's in many ways a , a book that , that looks two ways , as it were , back and , and forward . |
| 6 | Each has systematic ways of dealing with apparently awkward cases and there is no hope of specifying neutral conditions for testing one against the other and thus deciding between them . |
| 7 | Recent research has demonstrated that even in deprived areas or in new overspill housing estates , it is possible to encourage cooperative ways , given some professional encouragement and support to grass-root demands . |
| 8 | Alternatively , is it possible to find another way altogether , a way which does not simply resolve the dilemma , but one which transforms the problem into a solution ? |
| 9 | Example 75 illustrates various ways of exploiting this kind of harmonic versatility : In ( a ) the accompaniment is in archaic-sounding fourths and fifths , giving a slight feeling of organum . |
| 10 | He 's lost a dozen in a decade and this goes some way towards explaining his surprisingly philosophical attitude to his own bad luck . |
| 11 | If a common phenomenon , this goes some way towards accounting for the ingrained belief that such growth engendered serious economic and social problems , not least Carew 's conviction that the opening of tin workings impoverished a parish , whilst their discontinuance restored prosperity . |
| 12 | This goes some way to explaining why the complicated campaigns within Toulouse in the second half of the century were largely fought out under the banners of the Angevin , Aragonese , and French kings ; and why the revolts of Henry II 's sons had widespread ramifications . |
| 13 | This goes some way towards typing the organism causing the disease . |
| 14 | They are so strongly committed to their unionism that they are prepared to go some way towards moving some of their evangelical principles into the area of private life and personal choice , rather than alienate non-evangelical unionists . |
| 15 | Washington even seemed prepared to go some way towards meeting the desire of the USSR to revise the treaties relating to the rights of passage by warships through the Straits between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean — an issue with a long and complicated history reaching back into tsarist times . |
| 16 | Not , they were n't members of ours and they were n't er skilled in the trade , but hey were just people who were prepared to work any way and and scrambled through as best they could . |
| 17 | If , however , the council is serious about the need for reform it must be willing to find innovative ways of enforcing its recommendations . |
| 18 | Finding he had an inadequate amount of carpeting and the shop could no longer supply the same colour , he simply ordered another shade and was oblivious to the clash of reds this created half way up the stairs . |
| 19 | Chapter 2 describes some ways of doing this . |
| 20 | This shows one way in which the various parts of Charlemagne 's empire could retain their cultural unity even when they broke up politically . |
| 21 | Figure 2 shows one way of displaying the interrelationships between the key topics , but there may be others . |
| 22 | Table 6.6 shows one way in which the cereal-packet norm is becoming dented ; single-parent families are becoming more common . |
| 23 | This cuts two ways for the evicted home-owner . |
| 24 | It was better to have him relaxed , confident , thinking that all his problems were solved ; he would be easier to manage that way . |
| 25 | Janet erm Mr want 's some practical suggestions I have one for goodness sake any show that 's suitable for children charge those children half price that way you 'll get . |
| 26 | Autocrats may start well intentioned ( few stay that way ) , but none should be allowed to claim that their pursuit of good economic goals is just one way of upholding their subjects ' human rights . |
| 27 | The Protocols of the Elders of Zion were proved to be a forgery by The Times in 1921 and this went some way to defuse the growth of anti-semitic tendencies within the wider political culture . |
| 28 | This went some way towards closing the financial gap between Gloucester 's endowment and that of his brother Clarence , but income is probably all that the grant was designed to provide . |
| 29 | This went some way towards closing the financial gap between Gloucester 's endowment and that of his brother Clarence , but income is probably all that the grant was designed to provide . |
| 30 | to make it easier to learn that way . |