Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] a [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may prefer a different way . |
| 2 | In other words , we must identify a unique way of representing each possible pattern of communication a process might exhibit . |
| 3 | In the meantime this recording should go a long way to helping his cause . |
| 4 | Our exclusive interview with Steffi elsewhere in this issue should go a long way to satisfying the demands of her fans , many of whom continue to demand more and more information about their favourite player . |
| 5 | The plan 's changes should go a long way to drag Lloyd 's up to the standards of other financial markets . |
| 6 | Together with thick carpet and underfelt , it should go a long way to pleasing the occupants of the flat below . |
| 7 | ‘ This afternoon 's coverage should go a long way in helping you set up your own firm , ’ he said , wiping his hands on a serviette . |
| 8 | Captain George Sutherland , director of marine operations for Shetland Island Council , said : ‘ The proposals for traffic separation should go a long way to providing protection for the adjacent coastline and we are content with the measures . ’ |
| 9 | The new directives should go a long way to ensuring that employers do not abuse their employees in terms of unsafe working practice , practices . |
| 10 | Now one must go a long way upriver to find them , far into Sudan and Uganda . |
| 11 | To escape from Heathcliff I must go a long way away . |
| 12 | Local conditions must go a long way to explaining why some villages were vulnerable to enclosure and others were not , and these variations could occur within the limits of a single shire . |
| 13 | PLANTS should come a long way down the list of priorities for the novice gardener . |
| 14 | Mr Edmonds added : ‘ So we must find a new way of running our society so that people , who want to work , can . |
| 15 | We must find a quicker way of securing justice . |
| 16 | This example of one case discussion , lifted out of a sequence of weekly meetings , may appear a laborious way of achieving small gains , consuming time which teachers , pressed as they are , can little afford . |
| 17 | You 'll enjoy a new way of eating , based on natural , whole ingredients , with this diet plan — and you wo n't have to go hungry |
| 18 | You ca n't just pull that across , might look a long way out . |
| 19 | Inspection of ( 47 ) , repeated here for convenience as ( 65 ) ( 65 ) would lead us a priori to expect , first , that the language might provide a simple way to question the noun phrase and adjective taken as a unit , and second that , if there are simple interrogations for the noun phrase alone and for the adjective alone , these would take a form parallel to that for the subject and ( ordinary ) predicative adjective of a normal copular clause . |
| 20 | And no matter how fresh the lads might get they 'll have a long way to go before they reach your handling , wo n't they , Andrew ? ’ |
| 21 | But if you learn semaphore or the Morse code , you 'll have a fun way to send messages — without paying a penny ! |
| 22 | ‘ He 'll go a long way out of his way for something he likes to eat , will your average fox . |
| 23 | Jack 'll go a different way . |
| 24 | Aristocratic rivalries might go a long way to explain the ineffectiveness of English armies , as one of the chronicler 's few detailed descriptions of internal affairs indicates . |
| 25 | I 'll tell a another way in which erm , er , you your comment about climates , about weather , may influence things . |
| 26 | The year 's end might seem a long way off but the minute-by-minute activities of a Profitboss are always directed to that end and the interim end-results required to achieve it . |
| 27 | Now I suggested that they might find a quicker way to count the sticks . |
| 28 | Pringle believes that although there are other biographies of Bacon on the way , Paul 's will have the perfect combination of sensibility and interest — I think he 'll find a new way through to Bacon ’ . |
| 29 | For many households , housing is the major available asset and it may constitute a central way in which wealth is transferred between generations . |
| 30 | ‘ If only we could devise a safe way of laying our hands on all that money , ’ murmured Pugwash , whose greed was as proverbial as his cowardice . |