Example sentences of "[prep] [det] [art] [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor did Egypt , which is after all a long way to the east of Cyrene ( Athens being nearer to Cyrene than is the Nile ) make much impact except in a few points of ritual . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've pressured you into this the whole way , have n't I ? ’ he murmured . |
| 3 | With such an effective way of victualling her young , the mother is able to retain them within her until they are so big that their sheer size makes them a burden and the mechanics of getting them out of her body becomes a real problem . |
| 4 | The remarkable thing is that with such thin material and from such a long way back , he came through so quickly . |
| 5 | A rather larger star — one of mass greater than about 1.2–1.4 times our Sun 's — can not contract in such a controlled way . |
| 6 | ‘ The initial attraction was advertising , ’ he says , ‘ and particularly the way it achieved communication in such a slick way . |
| 7 | However , when Franca found herself so suddenly , for two days and in such a new way , alone in the house , her vast restless self-awareness , her life energy , set her off in a fresh direction . |
| 8 | You dropped me , remember , and in such a cruel way . |
| 9 | ‘ Oh Marius , at last I can tell you how dreadfully sorry I am about poor Sabine dying , and in such a cruel way . |
| 10 | Workers at the shelter say they 're disgusted that anyone would abandon the pupies in such a cruel way . |
| 11 | In such a casual way many an English town was conceived . |
| 12 | He had no idea why he was behaving in such a flighty way . |
| 13 | This difference in the crop can be seen from the air , although unfortunately not all crops respond to differences in moisture in such a visible way . |
| 14 | To Angela I convey my grateful thanks for undertaking the needlework responsibility in 1986 ; without whom this exhibition would not have taken place in such a lavish way . |
| 15 | There are some gaps in the surviving records , but for no earlier period , and for no later period before the nineteenth century , can the social fabric of the capital be charted in such a comprehensive way . |
| 16 | But he rails in such a disgusting way against the play 's characters that it is difficult to accept his view of human life . |
| 17 | After such duplicity the shadow Scottish Secretary , Tom Clarke , was ‘ wholly right to tell the SNP we could not work with them while they behaved in such a cynical way . ’ |
| 18 | I 'm glad we reached agreement in such a reasonable way . |
| 19 | It is as if each writer had taken the memory of some powerful event ( the terrible shock of being woken by a piercing noise ; discovering the ‘ magical ’ properties of magnets ) and daydreamed in such a concentrated way about it that a group of people , a situation , a story began to emerge . |
| 20 | It was n't fair that he could make her senses rocket in such a devastating way . |
| 21 | ‘ But Flashman does n't care what people think of him and that 's why he behaves in such a ridiculous way . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I could n't live in such a haphazard way , ’ she told him . |
| 23 | So our problem is understanding why it should have ever occurred to God that we needed redeeming , saving , restoring , in such a radical way . |
| 24 | For example , in the Amerindian language Cubeo , the main protagonists and their actions in a story are tagged by a particle in such a systematic way that a concise and accurate precis is obtained if just those sentences containing the particle are extracted ( see Longacre , 1976a for many such cases in this and other Amerindian languages ; and Anderson & Keenan , in press , re the so-called fourth person category in Algonquian languages , really a discourse-deictic category ) . |
| 25 | Perhaps then you 'll think more seriously before you play with someone 's emotions in such a heartless way . |
| 26 | However mistaken he thought that she might be , and that her vision of life was based on a charming naïveté which took little account of the cruel realities of existence , it was , to him , admirable that she should care about such things , and in such a practical way when all was said and done . |
| 27 | He was laughing at her , yet in such a nice way that she had to give in and join in the laughter . |
| 28 | It 's smart , effective , ecologically sound and it does pop in such a thirst-rousing way . |
| 29 | ‘ It is terrible that Alison O'Shaughnessy died in such a brutal way and her family has our heartfelt sympathy . |
| 30 | I believe that the reason for this being such a common problem is that we live , in the Western industrialised world , in such a disembodied way . |