Example sentences of "[vb past] a [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Initially , the steel toecaps of industrial boots provided a good way of savaging your opponent . |
| 2 | Consistent with his medico-chemical interests was his Edinburgh MD thesis ‘ On the theory of Chemical Combination ’ ( 1861 ) , in which he proposed a new way to represent chemical constitution : each atom was to be indicated by the chemical symbol for the element concerned , bonds between atoms being symbolized by lines . |
| 3 | It rose a long way . |
| 4 | So lawyer C took on a notoriously troublesome client — and indeed , found a satisfactory way of handling the client himself , as well as his many debts and difficulties ! |
| 5 | P&O Roadtanks Tanker Driver , Ian Newman found a novel way of training for the marathon |
| 6 | They drove a short way along the coast to a restaurant that was neither smart nor squalid , hushed nor noisy , and where a dinner they paid no attention to was served to them seemingly without any act of volition . |
| 7 | He hated the vulgarity of showing off the delegates as though they were exhibits , and the insincerity of pretending that platitudes were pronouncements of world-shaking import , and the feeling that he came a long way to greet fellow-Christians and found himself turned into a ham-actor on a second-rate stage . |
| 8 | But he came a long way round from a long way back , and O'Brien , by no means a habitual blamer of jockeys , is still convinced they should have won . |
| 9 | The company came a long way in the 1980s , but only because the leopard changed its spots by making the transition from selection to search . |
| 10 | Came a long way did n't they ? |
| 11 | ‘ I came a long way to say I 'm sorry , ’ Leonora reminded him . |
| 12 | Well he came a long way to get chucked out did n't he ? |
| 13 | Shells exploded a long way away across Beirut , down by the port . |
| 14 | Simon said : ‘ We knew that the group needed cash and this seemed a challenging way to raise it . ’ |
| 15 | True , it seemed a curious way of implanting poison but — He pulled himself back to sanity . |
| 16 | ‘ Kirkby boasts lots of football teams of all ages and this seemed a good way of drumming up cash . ’ |
| 17 | It was only when I was almost in despair that I recalled having seen a letter written by a knitter from overseas , about an easy way to make cables and it seemed a pleasant way to take a break by referring back a few months until I found the letter from — you 've guessed it — June Shaw . |
| 18 | For practical reasons , fieldworkers adopted a policy in these cases of knocking at the door of the nearest house of a similar type ; since the survey was based on geographical area and housing type , this seemed a reasonable way of obtaining data from a range of addresses while conserving time and resources . |
| 19 | It all seemed a long way from his flat in Whalley Range . |
| 20 | The possibility of anything like that happening to the Germans seemed a long way off in those days . |
| 21 | Surgical techniques for an artificial penis and scrotum were still experimental and any success there seemed a long way in the future . |
| 22 | It seemed a long way , though , from the summer perfume of myrtle and orange-blossom , the brilliance of white fluted marble , the wreathing steam , the orderly practices of the sugar-yards , the worksongs of the scything and the vintage , the glory of the sun setting , of the sun rising out of the sea . |
| 23 | Despite the Conservatives ' election victory and the easing of rates since their high point in August 1990 , recovery seemed a long way off even before the events of Black Wednesday . |
| 24 | At first , the war seemed a long way away , and the Otago CA reported that the 1914–15 summer promised to be a most successful one , with the ‘ services of world-renowned player , J.N. Crawford ’ ensuring that Otago cricket would be second to none in New Zealand . |
| 25 | My posting to the 2ème Régiment Étranger de Parachutistes seemed a long way away . |
| 26 | He seemed a long way off . |
| 27 | By the end of that first trip , our goal still seemed a long way off . |
| 28 | it seemed a long way away |
| 29 | Gateshead and the Reed family seemed a long way away . |
| 30 | But Samantha 's freedom still seemed a long way off . |