Example sentences of "we [verb] a [adj] way " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | We rode a good way along the track before Mandeville slowed , leaned over and talked quietly to Southgate . |
| 2 | To return to the question of how longitude-confined VGP paths can arise from complex behaviour of the dynamo , we propose a simple way to link VGP movements with flux change at the core surface , thereby connecting palaeomagnetic data with intuition gained from secular variation ( SV ) studies . |
| 3 | We ride a long way and in late afternoon ( sun time rather than clock time , which has long ceased to be important to us ) we stop for coffee so that Odd-Knut can work out a route . |
| 4 | This institution should need no introduction to FlyPast readers and we present a classic way to fill a stocking . |
| 5 | Erm , it 's very important that we find a joint way forward to make sure that whatever the future of local government is in this county , there is an effi effective and efficient purchasing erm , er service me who did the moving . |
| 6 | We felt a long way from the Mediterranean . |
| 7 | We 've a long way to go , pet , and you 've had an exciting day ’ , Tamar said firmly . |
| 8 | I know that we 've a long way today er to go today but would you just bear that in mind colleagues . |
| 9 | We had a long way to go and to start by knocking the monarchy would n't go down too well at home . |
| 10 | The majority of people were sympathetic , but we had a long way to go before people would be shouting ‘ Honte à la reine Britannique ’ in the streets . |
| 11 | ‘ Have n't we come a long way ? ’ he said , and collapsed . |
| 12 | Finally we observe that unc and so , if we replace the unc sign by + , if we simply drop the unc sign and if we then agree to write unc we establish a notational way of writing polynomials that we might just find a little easier to work with ! |
| 13 | ‘ We are going to develop inducements and encouragements for a major expansion of research and development , because if we are going to rival our major competitors we have a long way to go in catching up with them . |
| 14 | We know from our informal discussions with politicians of all shades of opinion that we have a long way to go , but many have been sympathetic to our aims . |
| 15 | A Union of Democratic Forces spokesman , Mr Georgi Spassov , said : ‘ This demonstrates that we have a long way to go before we have true democracy in Bulgaria . ’ |
| 16 | The revolution that resulted in molecular biology enabled us to begin to understand many of the processes in the cell at the molecular level , although it must be stressed that we have a long way to go . |
| 17 | So it is clear we have a long way to go before we can store up all the experiences of humankind . |
| 18 | We have a long way to go before society really shifts in attitude , and both men and women assume that caring is not only a woman 's job . |
| 19 | ‘ We have a long way to go before we are able to record and translate accurately such imprints of ourselves left behind in the void of time . |
| 20 | The sponsorship money will be used to upgrade facilities at the Stoop Memorial Ground because , according to chairman Roger Looker , ‘ We recognise we have a long way to go towards what we consider to be adequate facilities , particularly if we sustain our growth ’ . |
| 21 | Perhaps we are just beginning to see how the brain works , but we have a long way to go . |
| 22 | This leads me to believe that the questions surrounding male/female relationships are not simple , and we have a long way to go before we can simply pursue the ‘ if only men would ’ formula . |
| 23 | ‘ We have somewhere between £22,000 and £23,000 in the bank and there is cash still to come in , but we have a long way to go . ’ |
| 24 | In an ideal world we would be recycling and re-using everything , but this is n't possible and we have a long way to go before we can turn all our waste into a resource . |
| 25 | Thus we have a precise way of establishing the validity of non-local effects in quantum phenomena . |
| 26 | If we have a principled way of discerning the stable sub-assemblies , thereby distinguishing them from merely arbitrary collections of parts , then we can as it were see the evolutionary pedigree of a complex structure . |
| 27 | Thus even if we accept that the duty of directors to act in the best interests of shareholders can be equated with a duty to maximize profits this does not provide us with any real assurance that the wishes of the shareholders are being executed by the directors or that we have a satisfactory way of controlling the discretion accorded to directors in the name of the Rule of Law . |