Example sentences of "[verb] a [adv] [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Transgenic mice provide a particularly powerful way of studying how genes affect development and how they are turned on and off . |
| 2 | Here are several other suggestions that would make excellent messages for various occasions , and provide a very different way of expressing your feelings : |
| 3 | Criticising a rights-based ethics , she suggests that an alternative view of morality is needed which would include a typically feminine way of conceptualising the relationship between self and other . |
| 4 | To leap from this standpoint to the assumption that we have an everlasting soul is to leap a very long way — probably too far . |
| 5 | He found a more tactful way to put it . |
| 6 | She was not at the inn , not in the meadows , and when he finally found a sufficiently oblique way to ask where she might be , his misreading of the directions sent him along the wrong path past the wrong waterfall and up the surprisingly taxing slope of the wrong fell . |
| 7 | He had come a very long way in the decade since his wife had failed to win a Belfast Corporation seat ! |
| 8 | Well Ivan has brought along this harp which is actually an Irish harp which has come a very long way . |
| 9 | He 's come a very long way to see what you 've got to say as well as hear the stories . |
| 10 | She would be falsely modest not to acknowledge the fact that she had come a very long way since those days when she had been a thin , gawky adolescent . |
| 11 | As the politicians try to find a mutually acceptable way forward towards democracy , it is feared disillusioned activists are no longer answerable to the higher echelons of their parties and are turning to crime . |
| 12 | If you are unable to find a relatively easy way to measure the adverse behaviour then the chances are that you will be unable to decide what to do about it . |
| 13 | In programming , if something 's called J S P Jackson Struction Pro-level Method , and erm , I think I can introduce a slightly modified way of using it . |
| 14 | Does he , do you consider a very successful way of getting inside to what children think ? |
| 15 | Has a distinctly angular way of holding its neck , which alone should suffice to distinguish from any other woodpecker seen against the light . |
| 16 | ‘ The human body has a very efficient way of getting rid of useless waste , señora . |
| 17 | Joint Planning , it seems to me , still has a very long way to go . |
| 18 | However , the volume of research varies considerably from one polytechnic to another and , in general , it has a very long way to go before it begins to approach that generated within universities . |
| 19 | Max has a very funny way of telling you that you should try a different approach . |
| 20 | My hon. Friend has a characteristically robust way of demanding our continued support for British lamb producers . |
| 21 | The two pictures hanging on the wooden beam in the left of the photograph perhaps show a more popular way of displaying miniatures , which is nonetheless very attractive . |
| 22 | British Steel how you go that answers a really good way of putting it . |
| 23 | It seemed a very odd way of getting better . |
| 24 | And that , in 1957 , seemed a very long way off . |
| 25 | The two miles to Casterbridge seemed a very long way to the woman , who was tired and ill . |
| 26 | The slow version has the most depth , and maybe it 'll turn up on a 12-inch some day , but I really opted for the fast one , because it seemed a really nice way to start the album . ’ |
| 27 | The slow version has the most depth , and maybe it 'll turn up on a 12-inch some day , but I really opted for the fast one , because it seemed a really nice way to start the album . ’ |
| 28 | Leasing obviously still has its dedicated followers , but like many other sectors the boom years of the mid-1980s now look a very long way away . |
| 29 | The genetic view might at first sight appear to constitute a supremely historical way of thinking about literature , as the literary text was explained in terms of its causes and its origins . |
| 30 | For a moment I toyed with the idea of getting back to the ship , lifting off and going a comfortingly long way away . |