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Example sentences of "was a [adj] way " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	The last thing they would expect was the obvious , it was a certain way to catch them flat-footed .
2	Nice to see there , there was a certain way of cutting the tree
3	Perhaps reason was a better way of persuasion .
4	If his plan worked , he would have an hour or two to himself dawdling along the reef , which was a better way of spending the afternoon than acting as nanny to four Latinos .
5	If there was a better way , I swear to you I would employ it . ’
6	But science was a better way to approach this Mystery than any dogmatic religion could be in the nineteenth century : ‘ We claim , and we shall wrest from theology , the entire domain of cosmological theory . ’
7	For some firms the most urgent necessity was simply to reduce immediate labour costs , and decentralization for them was a straight-forward way of finding cheaper labour .
8	I listened with great care to discover how his brilliant mind would explain how in a society so apparently lawless there was a brilliant way of reducing the prison population .
9	She added conversationally , ‘ That landing net of yours was a marvellous way to catch him . ’
10	Nagging fears and doubts , as well as a shrewd eye for the main chance , had sent some of their number into other parties to leave behind a group of stalwarts to insist that there was a liberal way out of the dilemma , a middle way .
11	Sightseeing was a fascinating way to spend my last afternoon in Irkutsk .
12	When I suggest that Glory was a clever way of doing a Vietnam film without doing a Vietnam film , he stops yawning and gets a little annoyed .
13	And Michael Balcon , now convinced that making big-budget films to please the Americans was a sure way for the British film industry to commit suicide , began a campaign through the Cinematograph Films Council to draw attention to the amount of control Rank , with his dangerous policies , now had over the film industry .
14	They could see that providing specialist support for bureaux was a sure way of improving standards of generalist advice work but did not think that NACAB should develop these services further .
15	To film a well-known book was a sure way to impress the respectable classes and to attract new patrons from the reading public and the familiarity of the title generally helped in exploitation .
16	Planting it outside the backdoor was a sure way of keeping witches out of the house , and it was thought never to be struck by lightning ; cutting it brought bad luck , and traditionally it was the wood the Cross of Calvary .
17	In terms of work it was a real way out for Hereward from his appalling home background .
18	Whatever some observers regarded as a blundering approach was a skilful way of navigating the dilemmas confronting him .
19	Second , it was a logical way , as indicated in the scientifically precise plans of war-time Britain , of organizing the huge scale of building development that demand dictated would occur anyway .
20	It was a quaint way of putting it , but Fabia knew what he was asking .
21	So you thought gliding was a pleasant way of spending leisure time away from the cares and woes down on the ground .
22	I was a little way ahead before they moved off .
23	He was a little way behind her when she knocked on the study door .
24	The damaged one was still working , although it was a little way out of alignment .
25	She was a little way from Alexei , and when he saw her riding off the offworlder reined around after her .
26	The uncle had apparently come to the school gates at the end of school and when the girl was a little way on her way home had caught up with her and taken her to his house .
27	It was a terrible way to speak to your own father .
28	It was a terrible way to make a picture . ’
29	It was a terrible way to die . "
30	The discovery that there was a practicable way not only of monitoring dreaming sleep , but possibly of controlling it as well , presented a great challenge .