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Example sentences of "[be] a [adj] way " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	‘ There 's quite a cloud of smoke , ’ muttered Heather uneasily , ‘ and we 're a long way from it up here .
2	‘ Ah well , my dear , you must remember they 're a long way from home , and many of them have n't had much feminine company for a while .
3	‘ Of course , they look smaller when they 're a long way off , ’ Masklin muttered .
4	They 're a long way away . ’
5	As I said , I 'm never often out , and if you 're a long way from home it 's always good to have some place to drop in to .
6	We 're a long way from Cambridge now , and my name is Rose . ’
7	But it 's hard on Tour when you 're a long way from home and the only creature comforts you have are a television , a telephone and a McDonald 's around the corner .
8	‘ But they 're a long way away . ’
9	You 're a long way from home here , right ?
10	‘ And you 're a long way from being a saint , are n't you ? ’ he drawled mischievously .
11	If things go drastically wrong and you 're a long way from home and need to call for help the most effective way is with an orange smoke flare .
12	We 're a long way off retiring yet , Marlene .
13	But , I mean we 're a long way from that , and I do n't want people to think that I 'm from saying er redundancies are imminent , er
14	We 're a long way from anywhere here , Fran .
15	It 's mainly the feeling of insecurity when they 're a long way out from a telephone .
16	when you go into the villa , A you 've , got to have a car because there 's not a shop and B you 're a long way from the airport and if you get taxis you 're talking about fifty pound a touch from the airport , so that 's twice , so there 's a hundred pound gone already
17	They 're a good way of starting off your suntan before you go on holiday .
18	you because you 're a good way away .
19	No that , I I just walk like that Sir , they 're suede , they 're a special way of walking .
20	The Conservatives have been a long way ahead of Labour not just in seats ( an arbitrary effect of the electoral system ) but also in votes .
21	Seagram , last year 's winner , has been a long way behind that excellence this season , as has Bonanza Boy , the 1991 favourite , whose desertion by Peter Scudamore was clearly influenced by the drying conditions .
22	Whitaker also had Gammon entered in the World Cup final but , as his wife Claire said yesterday : ‘ It would have been a long way to go with just one horse .
23	‘ That was the turning point — had I gone 2-1 down it would have been a long way back ’ said the Ayrshire man later .
24	Mr and Mrs T questioned whether family counselling might have been a better way of dealing with a very complicated situation , or at worst whether an interdict could be placed on the older boys in the W family .
25	Nor is it yet the whole truth ; presenting the experiments in the way I have chosen , as I said at the beginning of this chapter , has been a logical way to tell a story , even if a story not yet adequately grounded in theory .
26	In the fifteenth century it had been a practical way of making agriculture more profitable , in the sixteenth it was more likely to create a vagrancy problem as men were dispossessed from the land , and this indeed was a social issue which came to the forefront of public attention in the Tudor period .
27	For many , this must have been a therapeutic way back into civilian life .
28	Military conscription has always been a useful way of soaking up young people and even though Russia is suffering from a decline in the birthrate the sudden release of a large number of men on to the civilian labour market might be difficult to absorb at a time when Gorbachev is trying to raise productivity .
29	Because invoice discounting does not involve banks of computers and armies of clerks to handle clients ' sales ledgers it has been a low-cost way of getting into this market .
30	Although it may have been a convenient way of getting her out of the country , this also indicates that Ælfgifu had previously enjoyed a recognised position .