Example sentences of "[was/were] [art] [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fleapit at the centre of another Rose script , The Smallest Show on Earth ( 1957 , Big Time Operators in US ) , directed by Ealing 's Basil Dearden , is eventually burnt to the ground by its old commissionaire : ‘ It were the only way were n't it ’ , he says to the cooing couple who inherited the place in a town stinking of glue from the local factory , together with staff so lost in the past that they still enjoy looking at Hepworth 's Comin ’ Thro ’ The Rye . |
| 2 | If you thought that seeds and cuttings were the only way to increase your garden plants then turn to the Gardeners ' Manual for a host of practical ideas to try . |
| 3 | Before much was known about the structure , trivial names were the only way to identify compounds . |
| 4 | They looked at psychological processes simply because they were the only way of monitoring what the brain might be doing . |
| 5 | Many of its own supporters advised Bakufu leaders that concessions were the only way to forestall more radical action . |
| 6 | Her father had gone on smoking and gesturing with a nod or a headshake ; he had protested that votes were the only way , not force . |
| 7 | The Egyptian government expressed regret over the US decision on June 21 and stated that direct negotiation and continuous dialogue were the only way to resolve the dispute . |
| 8 | They were the traditional way for the rich to travel by water — and in Egypt everyone travelled by water . |
| 9 | Although most prehistoric settlements and field systems were less regular than these examples , they clearly predominate in some areas and were the normal way of subdividing the landscape . |
| 10 | Probably not until the 1920'S were the old ways challenged all over Spain ; then local tools vanish before factory products ; local dresses and dances become conscious folk-lore ; doctors begin to win the battle against village quacks ; the lorry — vehicle of progress , especially to remote regions — replaces the donkey and the mule . |
| 11 | Church twisted his head sideways as if the writing were the wrong way round . |
| 12 | Sara ignored them as the boat chugged out to sea ; soon the harbour and the cliffs were a long way away . |
| 13 | Far from suggesting that the two sides were moving towards a new spirit of co-operation , the diplomats said they were a long way from calling for a ceasefire . |
| 14 | We tried to solve this with management and supervisory boards based in the department but they were a long way from the boards of industry . |
| 15 | They were a long way out of Thirkett now . |
| 16 | We all carried a key but the boxes were a long way apart . |
| 17 | Note the defence shown at point 2 above , when the offender has no reason to believe anyone was within hearing or seeing distances who was likely to be caused harassment , alarm or distress , e.g. if some people could see him , but they were a long way off . |
| 18 | South Africa , particularly in the Australian test , were a long way off the pace . |
| 19 | But time was pressing on and we were a long way from home . |
| 20 | We were a long way from Orange , isolated in the farmhouse , and we knew how unpleasant the next month was going to be depended entirely on the whims of the staff . |
| 21 | But they were a long way ahead now , and his mother would never guess what he was up to . |
| 22 | ‘ I thought we were a long way from anything out here . |
| 23 | Regardless of subject labels , children 's curriculum experiences tended to be dominated by writing , with reading , using task-specific apparatus , and listening to the teacher also prominent ; collaborative activity and talking — with the teacher or with other pupils — were a long way behind . |
| 24 | Our crafts were a long way from collision … ’ |
| 25 | ‘ You know , the buses were a long way from normal . |
| 26 | Marcus sat carefully on the bunk , feeling that the walls were a long way away and that he was very small . |
| 27 | Acton and Shepherd 's Bush , he said , were a long way from Islington but it had not needed the history and memory of Risinghill and William Tyndale to make headteachers alert to the damaging way in which matters of discipline , race , criminality and parental disquiet could be brought together into presentations of hot and not always accurate news . |
| 28 | Oh we had whistles , and strangely enough , very seldom did we use them , simply because there were other traffic about that time if you were a long way away , er you might be nearly to , if you blew your whistle , there were nobody to hear you , I mean people in houses , and they were only few and far between . |
| 29 | There were a long way from . |
| 30 | The seals which the Minoans devised were a simple way of ensuring security . |