Example sentences of "it [vb -s] a [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | it crosses a one way road , you 're coming up right |
| 2 | Besides this , it goes a long way to account for their toughness , as we shall see in Chapter 9 . |
| 3 | Apparently it goes a long way . |
| 4 | It represents a new way of life in which the behaviour and requirements of the collective body are present at every moment . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ It represents a new way of thinking about the media world we live in and a new way of learning the skills of active engagement and critical reflection with all forms of modern media — television , video , film , radio , print , and the glue that binds them all together — advertising , ’ says Sister Elizabeth Thoman , Executive Director of the Center for Media and Values . |
| 6 | Since any glass can only take a certain amount of fluid it represents an easy way of thinking of our body 's limitations to the amount of stress we can endure . |
| 7 | The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators is completely independent of the Post Office ; it offers a simple way of sorting out disputes using written statements and avoiding the need to make a personal appearance . |
| 8 | It offers a convenient way of sending a number of control characters to the screen . |
| 9 | ‘ Geographically it looks a long way but in travel time it is n't very far at all . ’ |
| 10 | Thankfully , ‘ Dirty ’ , the Sonics ' recent Geffen album , entered the UK Top Ten during the first week of release and , even if it has a long way to go to equal the sales of ‘ Nevermind ’ , things could be taking a turn for the better . |
| 11 | You will find no happiness , for ultimately life does not allow you to get away with anything , but rather , it has an uncanny way of asking for payment when we least expect it . |
| 12 | Try to get a small amount of airbrake on and keep the glider off the ground as long as you can , even if it floats a long way into the airfield . |
| 13 | ‘ It sounds a long way and it 'll be getting dark soon . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ By the road , it seems a long way , but I need only to walk a kilometre across the fields beyond the farm . |
| 15 | Only it seems a long way to go ! |
| 16 | Oh it seems a long way to go just for five days skiing . |
| 17 | It seems a strange way of choosing officials . |
| 18 | Erm , the one , two , three and four refer to quarters , it seems a strange way to do it , and I apologize for that . |
| 19 | It seems an odd way to conserve the wood : |
| 20 | If this is true , it seems an expensive way of satisfying one 's curiosity . |
| 21 | The motivation and advantage of using such a method as a research tool is that it finds a middle way between idiosyncratic subjectivism and claims to objectivity that have been increasingly questioned in the past twenty or so years ( by writers from Derrida ( 1975 ) to Lakoff ( 1987 ) ) . |
| 22 | Even so , it remains an inefficient way of spending funds , because in considering large numbers of new books on different subjects at the same time selectors find it difficult to judge the quality of individual works in relation to the rest of the subject literature , and difficult to take into account — except in the most superficial way — user demand for the books ' subjects . |
| 23 | This is a bit of a mouthful , but it provides a systematic way of describing relationships as positive or negative ; it reminds us , for example , whether young people are more or less likely to contemplate breaking the law . |
| 24 | This is a common feature of the rational expectations hypothesis and it provides an obvious way of testing the hypothesis , for if on estimating equation ( 3.18 ) we found ‘ widely different ’ coefficients on , widely different estimates of α t , then it would suggest that either equation ( 3.6 ) is untrue or expectations are not formed rationally . |
| 25 | And then there 's a , a series of er oh and they add er er during the people 's governments or at or above the may in accordance with the local land agency set apart certain land bound to be nationalized and used for the establishment of experimental farms or one or more county 's or model state farms , so there 's provision for the creation of so a form of socialism over the countryside but it 's , it comes a long way down the list . |
| 26 | It imparts a fresh way of seeing the familiar . |