Example sentences of "[vb base] [to-vb] a [adj] way " in BNC.

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1 If we progress past the 2nd playing round in either — we tend to go a long way … otherwise we tendto get caught cold as it were … and in the FA cup draw the finalists/winners …
2 If the hair should snap off from the tear , it may drift for many kilometres on the wind , falling slowly , and come to rest a long way down-wind from the vent .
3 A long time in the dark and he d have to go a long way round if he was n't to upset the sheep and alert Jack .
4 ‘ We have to go a long way south before we get to Alaska , ’ he said .
5 It will create interest in the foreground which I think is important and often , especially looking across water an expanse of water if you have n't got any interesting detail in the foreground yo you have to go a long way into the picture before it begins to get interesting .
6 Salmon have to find a safe way upstream past bears , and monkeys have to get to the fruit without waking the jaguars .
7 If electric cars are going to have a significant future , we have to find a cleaner way to generate electricity . "
8 But for more complicated molecules we need to have a systematic way of working out how many of the molecular vibrations will be active .
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