Example sentences of "it [was/were] [adj] way [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suppose it was one way of ensuring that staff returned to the fold , but I 'm not so sure that it was a good idea as far as the staff was concerned . |
| 2 | It was one way of justifying his own self-image as an ‘ unfortunate ’ and at the same time masochistically drawing attention to it . |
| 3 | For a man who found it difficult to write for more than three hours a day it was one way of passing time but , more importantly , as he explained in an address in 1951 , it was necessary for him to hold a job which other people considered useful ; he had so little confidence in his own work that he did not want to risk wasting all of his time upon it . |
| 4 | . And they were n't the Victorian prizes , that I won , I we got them for getting through an exam , because you could write or something , and er tt well , they were quite good books , and it was one way of getting a book . |
| 5 | It was one way of getting down , he supposed . |
| 6 | It was one way of getting money . |
| 7 | True , it was one way of keeping Dana from London and a meeting with Berenice , but why go to such lengths ? |
| 8 | It was one way of having her say . |
| 9 | They said it was half way through |
| 10 | Yeah , on the six o'clock they said it was half way through and Nigel Mansell was the lead and I thought you were watching it live , so I would n't just come through and |
| 11 | Well it was half way through when I came in |
| 12 | In the dark hours after breakfast it was some way of controlling the monstrous disjuncture between his private and his public life . |
| 13 | It was some way from the lodging , and Paul 's attentions still made walking difficult ; it would not do to arrive dishevelled and swaying , and she had to use some of Mrs Gracie 's money on a cab . |
| 14 | Nowadays , of course , we understand that it was this way of talking about ethical abstractions that made them seem so mysterious . |
| 15 | It was another way of saying there would be no condemnations . |
| 16 | In s.2(1) ( b ) the phrase " let another do so " still refers to the accused 's own existing liability and it was another way of committing the offence . |