Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aloof in temperament , in private life he was pious , charitable , and of a simple way of living . |
| 2 | STEPHEN BROADBENT from Gloucester reminds us of a useful way of getting the best of both worlds . |
| 3 | He now had to think of a decisive way of finishing what he had tentatively started or he too ran the risk of losing face . |
| 4 | He can not see why cash which has earned him monthly interest running into five figures should be squandered for the sake of a perceived way of life that is now beset by escalating economic and political pressure . |
| 5 | Aldous Huxley envisaged ‘ a kind of religious order , membership of which involves the acceptance of a certain way of life , and entails devoted and unremitting personal service for the cause . |
| 6 | A utilitarian who holds this ‘ attitudinist ’ view will see utilitarianism as the expression of a fundamental attitude in favour of a certain way of reaching decisions . |
| 7 | Educators , both from a professional and management position , must become much more involved in developing ( rather than simply operating ) these programmes which could form the basis of a real way forward . |
| 8 | As Hannah moves fluently along her journey into the past , what emerges most strongly to the listener is a sense of privilege — that here is a survivor of a lost way of life which was so innocent and simple , so materially deprived , yet spiritually rich , that it might have been part of another civilization altogether , surviving from an earlier century , perhaps . |
| 9 | If the content of in-service work does not encourage the formulation of a unified way of approaching the purposes , implementation and evaluation of effective management , does the process of continued professional education promote a wholeness of view on its own ? |
| 10 | THIS is the flowering of our civilization , not Monet 's waterlilies , which now seem like a remnant of a prehistoric way of thinking . |
| 11 | Erm and it is sort of a controlled way , if you like , of , of allowing the the , the subconscious to be expressed . |
| 12 | The chapter in this book on ‘ The Created God ’ puts forward , for serious consideration , the basis of a possible way to define such a ‘ god ’ . |
| 13 | The system has found itself in dire need of a new way of legitimating itself , and this need has given rise to a variety of responses . |
| 14 | Although couched in the typically occult language of the time , Garland 's prescient account catches society at a crossroads : those young homosexuals adrift in a postwar landscape without signs may now be seen as harbingers of a new way of life and a new economic order — variously described as pop culture , youth culture or the Teen age — which stand at the heart of ‘ late , consumer or multinational capitalism ’ . |
| 15 | Five years later , in Watch Out Kids the future It staffer Mick Farren noted that what he had seen there , that night , was more than a new rock ‘ n ’ roll show , it was ‘ the germ of a new way of life ’ . |
| 16 | They have been helped by the spread of a non-reverential way of thinking . |
| 17 | I mean , we do make all sorts of allowances with exams you know , people repeat words and th and they can leave words out and they ca n't think of a eloquent way of expressing that something at the spur of the moment so it 's |
| 18 | ‘ This is a beautiful day at the end of a long way , but we are not yet at the end of that way , a whole lot remains to be done , ’ Mr Brandt said . |
| 19 | Well , until sixty-five , and that 's a hell of a long way away . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've come a hell of a long way , you know . |
| 21 | One hell of a long way . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ It 's also a hell of a long way away , ’ Ace replied . |
| 23 | Viruses have come a heck of a long way since we last took an in-depth look at anti-virus software back in November 1990 . |
| 24 | It 's a hell of a long way . |
| 25 | The priority for those of us who live along and use the north Kent line is that line itself , and the £1 billion saved on the project would go a devil of a long way to sorting out the line . |
| 26 | It was a heck of a long way up there as well was n't it ? |
| 27 | No , it 's a hell of a long way |
| 28 | The producer would have to consider fitting some device such as an ionization screen to absorb the rays and , in the absence of a technological way of overcoming the problem , they might be forced to withdraw the product until such time as a solution could be found . |
| 29 | We have been generally talking about mixing different plant proteins but , of course , people generally mix plant with animal proteins in meals as part of a traditional way of eating . |
| 30 | Overall , there is an abiding impression of emptiness , of a natural pace and rhythm and of a traditional way of life that has all but disappeared from superficially similar island communities elsewhere in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland . |