Example sentences of "[adj] way for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mm we have n't been through this way for a long time have we ? |
| 2 | We are too impertinent with the past , counting on it in this way for a reliable frisson . |
| 3 | Lending money to someone who is unlikely to be able to pay back all their obligations is like betting on a probable loser : hardly a sensible way for a prudent lender to do business . |
| 4 | ( Clockwise is the most natural way for a right-handed person to turn the R face . ) |
| 5 | If you jump high enough from an aircraft , you can actually travel miles over the ground as you fall ; a good way for a special patrol to infiltrate enemy territory , especially if it 's night-time . |
| 6 | Fifty miles is a long way for a young child to go alone . ’ |
| 7 | You 've come a long way for a late-night drink . ’ |
| 8 | As was found in Wales , dairying was often the only way for a young person to start on the ‘ farming ladder ’ but old poor buildings made things difficult . |
| 9 | It may be that the only way for a new supplier to break through this impasse is to secure a small order which , in effect , permits the demonstration of his company 's capability to provide consistently high-quality products promptly . |
| 10 | Thus Witold Gombrowicz 's apparently anti-political call for ‘ an elusive man who is a play of contradictions ’ is really a fierce rebuke to the totalitarian preference for deathly form over vital chaos ; and the absurdist satire on display in Yuz Aleshkovsky 's ‘ Kangaroo ’ , whose protagonist eventually comes to believe the KGB 's charge that he sodomised a marsupial in the Moscow Zoo ‘ on a night between July 14th 1789 , and January 9th 1905 ’ ( note the dates ) , is ‘ the only way for a free mind to cope … an abuse of official language that will overpower it and thus defeat it . ’ |
| 11 | That is the only way for a civilised democratic Government to deal with terrorism . |
| 12 | Then a double take as Jack Russell went the same way for a disappointing 3 . |
| 13 | Strong tea can be used in the same way for a lovely brown colour . |
| 14 | Now I 'm suggesting that an evaluator might , instead of just concentrating on one set of values , deliberately try and look at several , so they might , for example , identify that there were a group of people who felt that history should be taught in a certain particular way for a certain purpose . |
| 15 | The balance of power was shifting back to favour the landlord , and it was to remain that way for a long time . |
| 16 | ‘ It jolted me into making the decision to quit , but I 'd been moving that way for a long time . |
| 17 | A great stalwart of the breed , he was a founder member of the first breed club in the USA and handled the first Rottweiler to win the working group , possibly the best way for a new breed to gain attention . |
| 18 | Erm , we need to be convincing in challenge , otherwise the challenge , erm , we should question whether there is a need for any change , erm , if things have been done in a certain way for a certain period of time , erm , just because we want to change them , does n't mean to say that it does n't |
| 19 | Secondly there are restraints upon the business in which the person receiving the business secrets may engage ( ie not to compete in a certain way for a particular time because of the risk of use or disclosure of business secrets ) . |
| 20 | Some people manage to live in this virtuous way for a short time ; the very rare person for years . |
| 21 | Ali himself has acknowledged this : ‘ I started boxing because I thought this was the fastest way for a black person to make it in this country ’ ( quoted by Torres , 1971 , p.83 ) . |
| 22 | Carol said : ‘ As it is being funded by European money , projects have to be developed in a suitable way for a transnational application . |
| 23 | The easiest way for a male rapper to make himself look big amongst his equally stupid male peers is to put women down . |
| 24 | By the same token , the easiest way for a big studio to commit suicide is to sell its library — as MGM has . |