Example sentences of "[vb past] a [adj] way [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Initially , the steel toecaps of industrial boots provided a good way of savaging your opponent . |
| 2 | So lawyer C took on a notoriously troublesome client — and indeed , found a satisfactory way of handling the client himself , as well as his many debts and difficulties ! |
| 3 | P&O Roadtanks Tanker Driver , Ian Newman found a novel way of training for the marathon |
| 4 | They drove a short way along the coast to a restaurant that was neither smart nor squalid , hushed nor noisy , and where a dinner they paid no attention to was served to them seemingly without any act of volition . |
| 5 | Maurice came a little way into the room , looked down at the body and moved away again . |
| 6 | The company came a long way in the 1980s , but only because the leopard changed its spots by making the transition from selection to search . |
| 7 | True , it seemed a curious way of implanting poison but — He pulled himself back to sanity . |
| 8 | ‘ Kirkby boasts lots of football teams of all ages and this seemed a good way of drumming up cash . ’ |
| 9 | For practical reasons , fieldworkers adopted a policy in these cases of knocking at the door of the nearest house of a similar type ; since the survey was based on geographical area and housing type , this seemed a reasonable way of obtaining data from a range of addresses while conserving time and resources . |
| 10 | It 's something you use to get you from A to B , I guess , and right now that seemed a long way to me . |
| 11 | It seemed a long way to the building , but eventually she heard his footsteps on wood and knew they had arrived . |
| 12 | It all seemed a long way from his flat in Whalley Range . |
| 13 | Surgical techniques for an artificial penis and scrotum were still experimental and any success there seemed a long way in the future . |
| 14 | As a device for separating ‘ general matters of policy ’ from ‘ day to day administration ’ it seemed a comfortable way of combining public accountability with business efficiency in a parliamentary system of government : Ministers dealt with the former and the corporation 's employees with the latter . |
| 15 | ‘ But I am , ’ he asserted with a grin , steering her towards the long metallic midnight-blue convertible parked a little way along the road . |
| 16 | Ryszard Gajewski , the administrator in charge of basic energy research , was enthusiastic : ‘ The work was promising in the sense that it identified a new way of effecting nuclear fusion even though there was no strong indication that it might be practical . ’ |
| 17 | Greg retreated a short way down the path , and the Fire Officer turned back to the operation . |
| 18 | And indeed , feminism was quite happy with that , for it heralded a new way of being . |
| 19 | Kant 's Critique of Pure Reason ( 1781 ) was just one of the major works that heralded a new way of doing philosophy : the beginning of that critical rationality that Sir Karl Popper so admired and saw as a turning-point in the history of ideas . |
| 20 | When the constable called , he left his bicycle leaning against the signalbox wall and it screeched a little way along the wall before coming to a rest ; the sound was to remain in Mr Daubney 's memory for reasons that will be revealed . |
| 21 | We rode a good way along the track before Mandeville slowed , leaned over and talked quietly to Southgate . |
| 22 | Although she lived a long way from the town , she seldom missed Brownie Pack Meeting . |
| 23 | ‘ Well , you got a nice way with you , Sergeant Joe , ’ said Mrs Beavis , ‘ and I do n't suppose many women would find it easy to say no to you , whatever you wanted . ’ |
| 24 | They walked a little way into the Trees , where it would be more comfortable to sit on the thick , dry forest floor and eat their food and rest . |
| 25 | He walked a little way along the road , past Marshall 's van , and could n't find her . |
| 26 | They walked a little way in silence . |
| 27 | I hung around for a while … now I come to think of it , I walked a short way along the path , looking for him . ’ |
| 28 | Silver and I followed a long way behind the rest , and I had to help him . |
| 29 | The cell developed a new way of consuming oxygen to make carbon dioxide and water to release energy . |
| 30 | And eventually in exasperation the bird flew a short way down the beach and picked up a small stone in its beak and then it returned and it bashed the shell repeatedly until it cracked it open and it was able to get at the contents inside . |