Example sentences of "[adv] a [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | A game of darts at the local pub ; just as much a favourite way to relax at the end of the day 50 years ago , as it is now . |
| 2 | But a nice idea , yeah , he 's saying before long tens of thousands of schools will have sprung up in the villages throughout the province erm and that , that basically the peasants like the old style schools which is basically a Chinese way of teaching as opposed to erm the education which the landlords received which is the foreign school and he 's saying how when he was a student erm you know he used to think that the foreign style schools were groovy er but has now realized that actually , you know , being , I mean |
| 3 | Some mixtures of garam masala available commercially include cumin and coriander , but this is merely a cynical way to reduce the cost . |
| 4 | [ The alternative ] means more than merely a different way of ‘ doing social science ’ . |
| 5 | I do n't think anybody can agree , there is , there is perhaps a better way of looking at the current formula , but I 'm just a little bit concerned having read this report and seen the purpose , about the way that er , the A C C are , are pressing for the |
| 6 | It 's a convenient unit , perhaps a useful way of thinking about it is in terms of the time that light takes about eight minutes to reach us from the sun . |
| 7 | Colourful is perhaps a polite way to describe this BRCW three-car dmu set P460 with 51317 the leading car . |
| 8 | An account of the decline of partisan and religious strife , by contrast , would take us past the Hanoverian Succession — indeed , perhaps a long way past it . |
| 9 | It is perhaps a good way of avoiding the hermeneutic error . |
| 10 | Asking what one remembers a couple of months after a conference is perhaps a good way of judging the event . |
| 11 | Perhaps a fresher way of seeing the truth here is to turn the whole statement around . |
| 12 | ( This is obviously a better way of measuring recall than merely counting the number of words remembered , although it does have the disadvantage of being a less objective method since the actual wording used by a subject may be very different from that used in the passage . ) |
| 13 | ‘ It was obviously a good way to raise money for local charities , instead of just throwing them away in the waste bins . |
| 14 | Erm , but you know , erm , that 's obviously a different way of using them . |
| 15 | Although the nerve pathways from the brain to the blood vessels and heart use acetylcholine as their transmitter at ganglia , they end in terminals which release an adrenaline-like substance , so a possible way of controlling blood pressure is to block the action of this substance . |
| 16 | Yes , I mean you could put it in the minutes , but also it would be quick at the next meeting of this sub-committee is after the election , it 'll be some time in June , so a quick way of dealing with it would be to put it in the bulletin , yes , but also , but I 'll put it in the minutes , as well . |
| 17 | no , I 'm sure one of you says it was seventy for the coast road , it 's only a two way traffic |
| 18 | Since 1986 's ‘ It 's Only A Long Way Across ’ , his songs have come wrapped in an electric blanket which has been soaked in the bog-holes of Ireland and then dry cleaned in the side alleys of Greenwich Village . |
| 19 | To a post-Renaissance intellectual , the Middle Ages had advanced only a small way beyond the sixth century Goths ; it was the Renaissance which brought greatness to architecture . |
| 20 | It states that there is no one correct way to manage or design an organisation , only a best way for each individual organisation . |
| 21 | Deregulation has also extended to business organisation though , as yet , in only a limited way . |
| 22 | Relationship matters , formerly considered in only a limited way as ‘ discipline ’ , Discussing the relationships of the librarian with the users is one way of discussing the role of the librarian , a way that keeps the reader in the forefront of the issue . |
| 23 | Although the authors do not deny the importance of the social and political environment in which unions operate , as well as the effects of economic forces , these influences are dealt with in only a limited way . |
| 24 | ‘ The international division of labour ’ is only a fancy way of describing what people do when they go to work . |
| 25 | The proposed discount will go only a certain way towards doing what is needful . |
| 26 | Tired legs , sore feet and shortage of time should not deter an inspection of the unusual sight at the rear of the now unoccupied farmhouse here : in the backyard , only a short way from the buildings , is the impressive entrance to Bruntscar Cave which penetrates half a mile under the hillside . |
| 27 | She 'd gone only a short way when some sixth sense brought her to a halt in the nick of time . |
| 28 | It is only a short way from this position to punishment of artists whose views are seen as heretical , a tendency which led in medieval times to burnings at the stake and , more recently , to the horrors of the Maoist ‘ cultural revolution ’ . |
| 29 | Rochers town , we were only a short way and we went to this house , we were only young coppers , and we had this friend call on us and we looked out , he was going back into the car and he looked down the street and he said , my God there 's an awful lot of children around here , they must do nothing but screw all the time |
| 30 | It was not only a neat way to ‘ finish ’ the interior but also gave the dressed corpse the appearance of being in a bed . |