Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] a [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | It expresses the resolve of a social group to maintain or change a particular way of life , and to act in accordance with certain ideals . |
| 2 | Now here he was in Simanggang with his mosquito nets , journals , chronometers , compasses , barometer , medicine cabinet , guns and one offspring , out to cure himself or discover a New Way of Thought , whichever would cause most trouble in a world already tormented by too much belief . |
| 3 | ‘ British Gas asked for a wide-ranging review in order to clarify our regulatory environment and develop a clear way ahead for the future . |
| 4 | Shearer has not proved himself yet and has a long way to go . ’ |
| 5 | The problem is that you are dealing with foreigners who insist on having different money , customs , languages , politics , legislation and living a long way away . |
| 6 | A mother with three young children , with no car and living a long way from a general practitioner 's surgery is almost certain not to consult the doctor as often as she should . |
| 7 | The fifth step in an assertiveness programme involves preparing and rehearsing a different way of responding to the identified situation . |
| 8 | Pension-fund investments across the country amounted to billions of pounds , and by helping News on Sunday investors could score many brownie points , and find a possible way in to this exciting and under-exploited source of money . |
| 9 | My first instinct was to back the car and find a different way round , but then in the headlights I saw that three or four men were all dressed in black shirts . |
| 10 | Would you like to start again and try a different way ? " |
| 11 | Indeed , I 'd probably sympathise and go a long way towards agreeing with those propositions if they were put to me . |
| 12 | Now , diver deployment systems are accepted as normal offshore practise , and go a long way to making commercial diving safer . |
| 13 | He 'd spent a long time twisting bits of wire together and finding a safe way to steal electricity from the fusebox . |
| 14 | There is now a FastFormat icon which works like a ‘ paintbrush for text ’ and gives a quick way of applying a text attributes from selected text already in your document to any other area you then select . |
| 15 | The woman was in black stilettoes , walking slowly and evidently in pain — as if she had walked into the country in inappropriate shoes and was blistered and had a long way to go , as if this hot summer wind from the chalk hills was almost too much for her . |
| 16 | At the top of the fountain , the spray breaks up into individual droplets which get carried by the wind and fall a long way from the vent , so that downwind of the fountain there is a shifting curtain of glowing droplets showering down . |
| 17 | I 'm fifty and have a long way to go . |
| 18 | Far from being able to produce enough plutonium to make atomic weapons , however , IAEA experts agreed that the plant was " extremely primitive " and remained a long way from completion . |
| 19 | Education is seen to include some of this , but goes a long way beyond competence in application . |
| 20 | The new organizational and structural changes proposed in the Act are complex , but go a considerable way to addressing the problems outlined in Chapter 4 . |
| 21 | NORWICH moved to within a point of the top of the table in a scrappy match against relegation-haunted Oldham — but looked a long way short of genuine championship class . |