Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a little way I halted and looked back . |
| 2 | After a little way the rabbit-hole suddenly went down , deep into the ground . |
| 3 | Aloof in temperament , in private life he was pious , charitable , and of a simple way of living . |
| 4 | STEPHEN BROADBENT from Gloucester reminds us of a useful way of getting the best of both worlds . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Can you think of a better way to boost circulation ? |
| 10 | ‘ I am anxious that you should stay here until I return and I can not think of a better way of making sure you do than by putting you in charge of my property , ’ he explained . |
| 11 | ‘ I want to have a full career here and I could n't think of a better way to do that . |
| 12 | ‘ I do n't think you could have thought of a better way of rewarding her , she seems such an independent little thing . ‘ |
| 13 | You 've not only you 're , you 're not only yourself but you 've got ki , your child to look , look after , you 've also got who you 're caring for , you 've got their emotional needs as well , and you 're emotional needs tend to take a back seat , for want of a better way of putting it . |
| 14 | And while she was having a whisky and eating a piece of cake at eleven o'clock , in a hapless impulse to demonstrate and somehow fix her freebooting mood — though she saw the irrationality of it on a day that had begun with a clear insight that at least she would try to equal his thinness even if she could never hope to achieve the frugality of his expectations — just as she was leaving the last part of the cake , she would think of a better way to write the note . |
| 15 | I used to use a stop watch and then I thought of a better way . |
| 16 | So wh what I 'm saying is erm , our modern view , the consequence of this is our modern view of evolution and I ca n't think of a better way to illustrate it than this , is that organisms ultimately are , can really been seen , rather like this . |
| 17 | think of a better way , that was in the blood , put it like that . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 ? |
| 21 | THIS is the flowering of our civilization , not Monet 's waterlilies , which now seem like a remnant of a prehistoric way of thinking . |
| 22 | Erm and it is sort of a controlled way , if you like , of , of allowing the the , the subconscious to be expressed . |
| 23 | 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 ’ . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 ’ . |
| 26 | 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 ’ . |
| 27 | They have been helped by the spread of a non-reverential way of thinking . |
| 28 | The other different thing I think is that it 's more of a one way communication . |
| 29 | One Way Traffic No progress to report in the implementation of a one way traffic system in Viewfield Road . |
| 30 | One Way Traffic No progress to report in the implementation of a one way traffic system in Viewfield Road . |