Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] a [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another , the scaffold-web spider , rigs a whole series of sticky threads from the branches of a bush down to the ground and hauls each one so tight that if an insect , either walking on the ground or flying a little way above it blunders into one of them , the thread breaks and the victim , stuck to it with glue , is hoisted into the air . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | From time to time one or another would begin to scrape in the gravelly bank , or venture a little way in among the trees and nut-bushes to scuffle in the leaf-mould . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ British Gas asked for a wide-ranging review in order to clarify our regulatory environment and develop a clear way ahead for the future . |
| 6 | Shearer has not proved himself yet and has a long way to go . ’ |
| 7 | As you 'd expect , being a Saab , it runs on unleaded fuel and has a 3 way catalytic converter . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The fifth step in an assertiveness programme involves preparing and rehearsing a different way of responding to the identified situation . |
| 11 | Rumen boluses designed for the slow release of anthelmintics over a prolonged period are under development for sheep and seem an ideal way of minimising worm egg output . |
| 12 | Latvia , in common with other former republics of the now defunct Soviet Union , is looking to the West not only for help but ideas as it tries to rebuild its shattered economy and create a better way of life in a society which has not been used to making decisions for itself . |
| 13 | The sailing ship Roraima arrived at St Pierre early in the morning of Thursday , 8 May , and anchored a little way off shore . |
| 14 | As chairman you are responsible for calling the meeting , holding it together , and devising an effective way of working . |
| 15 | So it was easy to look frightened and to run a little way . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | If you do n't , tear up the appraisal farms today and find a better way to assess performance and make profit . |
| 18 | The council must simply rethink it and find a better way of allowing disabled people with cars into town . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Would you like to start again and try a different way ? " |
| 21 | In any case , resolved to bring the whole matter to a satisfactory conclusion as quickly as possible , I proceeded further into the library , and stopping a little way from Mr Cardinal 's writing desk , gave a cough . |
| 22 | Indeed , I 'd probably sympathise and go a long way towards agreeing with those propositions if they were put to me . |
| 23 | Now , diver deployment systems are accepted as normal offshore practise , and go a long way to making commercial diving safer . |
| 24 | A further decree in 1982 , this time initiated by a civilian government , reinforced state control of the banking and finance sectors and went a little way to encourage Nigerian capital to invest more in the manufacturing sector . |
| 25 | After one or two walks over the hills together the girl preferred to stay at home so the mother went on her own ; on one of these occasions Peony had actually tidied up and got tea ready and gone a little way along the track to meet her mother when she saw her coming up the hill . |
| 26 | He had just time to form them up and move a little way forward himself from their hiding-place , to where he could see the ford and its approaches on either side , when the first fleeing riders came pounding down , splashing over and racing on . |
| 27 | He 'd spent a long time twisting bits of wire together and finding a safe way to steal electricity from the fusebox . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Kisling adored women and had an easy way with them , his face alive with sexual vitality . |