Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] a [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from the track itself the forest had been partially felled for about twenty feet on either side so that except where the road wound sharply it was possible to see a long way ahead . |
| 2 | This type of ‘ client-server ’ architecture also makes it possible to provide a uniform way for users to talk to applications running on different platforms . |
| 3 | In this way , the learner will gain confidence , and this goes a long way to promoting safe practice if at a later time adequate guidance and support are lacking . |
| 4 | This goes a long way towards explaining the awkwardness felt by the foreign learner in conversation an awkwardness which does not seem wholly attributable to faulty or slow processing of grammar and vocabulary . |
| 5 | There is a problem with pollution with visual intrusion and noise intrusion which needs to be solved and this goes a long way towards solving it . |
| 6 | There are signs from some parts of the country that some authorities are already exploring , albeit gingerly , the possibilities of ‘ joint purchasing ’ and that this represents a good way forward . |
| 7 | This represents a clear way of connecting a school plan and the daily practices of its teachers . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ Kirkby boasts lots of football teams of all ages and this seemed a good way of drumming up cash . ’ |
| 10 | Simon said : ‘ We knew that the group needed cash and this seemed a challenging way to raise it . ’ |
| 11 | Roy Johnston recalled : ‘ The August 1966 Maghera conference of the Wolf e Tone Societies … discussed a memorandum on civil rights prepared by the Dublin Society … with some of the Republican leadership present , convincing the latter that this constituted a valid way forward . ’ |
| 12 | This seems a useful way of understanding the impact of the Thatcherite revolution on the nature of state ( both local and national ) activity in the two locales under study . |
| 13 | This seems an odd way of going about things , but the advising panels do carry a professional adviser so that talent is not merely being judged by local civil servants . |
| 14 | Delegates could contribute valuable insight and comment based on their own experiences and expertise , and this went a long way towards creating LASMO 's HSE blueprint for 1993 and beyond . |
| 15 | This indicates a powerful way in which labour market factors can effectively negate educational advances , e.g. , in changing the pattern of ‘ racial ’ or gender inequalities in attainment . |
| 16 | This remains a good way of doing things , and must be the most pain-free way of building up a stock of components . |
| 17 | It 's something you use to get you from A to B , I guess , and right now that seemed a long way to me . |
| 18 | Does that sound a sensible way of proceeding ? |
| 19 | As one would expect , incomers took a greater interest in discussing class — class is supposed to go a long way in explaining the membership of given social networks , and in the scope of such networks . |
| 20 | The initial pitches gave easy climbing up the low angled base , but as usual with routes having ( F6a ) and ( F6b ) moves , there were only two or three bolts a long way apart . |
| 21 | Well you sh you 're supposed to ride a fair way out from the gutter , never in the gutter so they can see you round the bends . |
| 22 | Proposals such as these went a long way to alleviate Chinese concerns and brought closer the possibility of a summit meeting between the two leaderships for which Soviet spokesmen had for some time been calling . |
| 23 | Well , that sounds a jolly way to spend a half-term . |
| 24 | It all seemed a long way from his flat in Whalley Range . |
| 25 | What institutional language reform really signals is an agreement on the part of the powerful to recognise a new way of ordering the world ( the question of how closely this conforms to reality is at best secondary ) . |
| 26 | It all went a long way towards explaining why umpires the world over have been reluctant for so many years to restrain cricket 's bouncer-happy fast bowlers . |
| 27 | ‘ We 've all come a long way , Carrie , and we 're going to go a lot farther … but come inside , I think Christian 's found that bottle of brandy that I 've been hoping he 'd forgotten . ’ |
| 28 | But one step down from this grander world view at a more personal level , we all have a simpler way of seeing things which still vigorously affects the shape and colour of our personalities and what contributions and responses we bring to our relationships with others . |
| 29 | ‘ And that seems a long way away . |
| 30 | James Diamond and Thamesdown Council say they 're confident a solution will be found — right now that seems a long way off . |