Example sentences of "[adj] way [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The massive tax increases that lie ahead should go some way to reassure the financial markets that he is determined to redress a recessionary budget deficit now projected to run at £50 billion — £1 billion a week — in the current year . |
| 2 | And these facts go some way to explain the astonishing further fact that the Ultra secret was kept not merely during the War , but for 30 years afterwards — a phenomenon that may well be unparalleled in history ! |
| 3 | In a remarkable letter which he wrote in nineteen-eighteen , he said , ‘ I must , before I die , find some way to say the essential thing that is in me , that I have never said yet , a thing that is not love , or hate , or pity , or scorn , but the very breath of life , fierce and coming from far away , bringing into human life the vastness and the fearful passionless force of non-human things . ’ |
| 4 | It 's the one room that has in some way to accommodate the changing interests of all members of the family ; it 's also the room that is most on show , the room where your guests stay the longest . |
| 5 | These figures , perhaps , go some way to dispute the widely-expressed view that Pipe is the greatest jump trainer in racing history . |
| 6 | There is no doubt that this is a proper way to acknowledge the fine achievements of sportsmen and women and others who have done work for charity . |
| 7 | The proper way to put the last sentence would be to say : ‘ If B is charged with such-and-such a crime , he will have a good defence . ’ |
| 8 | In the snail darter case the justices of the Supreme Court argued about the proper way to read the Environmental Protection Act . |
| 9 | If a person does not want something , the quickest way to instil the necessary desire is to create urgent and inescapable need . |
| 10 | This way to join the lost people … |
| 11 | It could be that Lord Roskill wished in this way to exonerate the mischievous label-switcher , but that person is anyway not guilty of theft because he does not have the mental element . |
| 12 | It 's an ‘ intelligent ’ harmoniser and plays this way to follow the commonest chord sequences without any programming . |
| 13 | Because it is the mating act in cats that induces ovulation , it is possible in this way to start the female cat 's ovulation as if she is carrying male sperm . |
| 14 | It was hoped in this way to reduce the high refusal rate which is a hazard in sociolinguistic surveys , and indeed the method seemed in general to be successful in this respect ; altogether , out of 40 addresses visited , only 8 refusals were recorded . |
| 15 | It 's the perfect way to discover the true nature of a country and its people . |
| 16 | Clearly , spectroscopic methods based on femtosecond pulses are an appropriate way to observe the unstable dissociating ( or transition ) states that exist fleetingly as the molecules fall apart . |
| 17 | But there is no easy way to undo the nuclear binge of the cold war . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Could there be a more splendid way to get the grey matter working ? |
| 20 | One working assumption might be that the rules governing conversation between persons can be extended in a natural way to cover the new situation , but there are grounds for doubting that this is what literally occurs . |
| 21 | The only really satisfactory way to solve the whole problem is to assume that there are certain types of goods which can at the same time be " ordinarily " for private use and for commercial use . |
| 22 | They have long been committed to the idea of such a conference for dealing with the Arab-Israeli conflict ; they are now committed to the idea of such a conference for negotiating a Gulf peace ; there is no obvious way to keep the two ideas apart . |
| 23 | That 's the worst way to cut the damned stuff . |
| 24 | To film a well-known book was a sure way to impress the respectable classes and to attract new patrons from the reading public and the familiarity of the title generally helped in exploitation . |
| 25 | Fussing over vertical life-lines , pondering horizontal heart and head lines and anxiously measuring the girdle of Venus and zone of intuition , seems a desperate and futile way to fill the aching emptiness in many a woman 's life . |
| 26 | A better way to get the same result , you might think , would be to adjust Hong Kong 's currency , not its price tickets , by vigorously upvaluing the Hong Kong dollar against the American one . |
| 27 | Family outings on bikes are a good way to make the best of summer days . |
| 28 | Plant selection , therefore , goes a long way to help the organic gardener . |
| 29 | As Gargy Patel reports , it 's kinder to the horse , and it 's an effective way to deter the growing number of horse thieves . |
| 30 | It was strongly supported in the 1950s by the companies who purchased the cotton grown as a cash crop in the savannah , because it appeared to be the most effective way to reverse the declining fertility and falling yields which had become apparent by that time . |