Example sentences of "a [adj] way from " in BNC.
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| 1 | He moved away from the mirror , seated himself a little way from the top of the main staircase and wrapped the tails of the shirt around his legs . |
| 2 | Pehr Kalm had been a student of Linnaeus , to whom he wrote in March 1747 saying that he had collected a great many seeds from the Essex garden of Richard Warner , a special friend of Miller , who promised an introduction and that he intended ‘ taking up my quarters a little way from Chelsea garden to be always with him ’ . |
| 3 | In any case , resolved to bring the whole matter to a satisfactory conclusion as quickly as possible , I proceeded further into the library , and stopping a little way from Mr Cardinal 's writing desk , gave a cough . |
| 4 | A range of stone-built stables , a coach house and tack room , stood a little way from the house , and at right angles to it . |
| 5 | She could n't get her to walk even a little way from the house . |
| 6 | Then , pulling a little way from him , she closed her eyes , lifting her lips to his . |
| 7 | I took a seat a little way from the knot of people that formed the main body of our party . |
| 8 | She was a little way from Alexei , and when he saw her riding off the offworlder reined around after her . |
| 9 | they had a barn just a little way from the house , you could see it but it |
| 10 | local , quite a little way from the hospital . |
| 11 | What I , what er , I in fact , what , what I did notice in that time that I was there , was that er , when you talk about the old guard , the young people , anybody under forty er they were a little bit cynical about this communism lark and Lenin and the rest of it , they all went to say , they would all go to Lenin 's er statue and in effect have a blessing from Lenin , we went along with them on one occasion , very pleased to do it , but you you got the impression that the younger generation were already in 1982 and the people now that are out there with Yeltsin were shying away from communism , now the thing is this that Gorbachev came along in my opinion exactly at the right time and tried to move things a little our way a little way from the hardline , which obviously could n't be sustained . |
| 12 | The plan was also prepared in a different way from those drafted by the US divisions , as it had to be to give proper consideration to the problems and needs of a totally different planning environment . |
| 13 | One could say that iron filings relate to a magnet in a different way from cork to water ; that a man , bat and ball have a different relationship from man , butterfly net and butterfly . |
| 14 | Finally , pricing mechanisms operate in a different way from the formal sector , where they are fixed . |
| 15 | So there is a legal problem here ; that we treat our own species in a different way from the way we treat imported wild animals . |
| 16 | The useful book presents nutritional data on some of our common foods and drinks in a different way from the standard McCance & Widdowson tables . |
| 17 | Soricid mandibles ( and skulls ) are more common , and because of the differences in mandibular anatomy , they break in a different way from rodent mandibles : the ascending ramus is composed of thickened bars of bone , with thinner bone in between , and it is these thinner areas that are broken initially , producing holes in the ramus ( Fig. 3.14 I-J ) while leaving the processes intact . |
| 18 | Younger people have been brought up in a different way from the way our parents and grandparents were . |
| 19 | At the same time , many Democrats on the Hill very much want to show that a president of their party will deal with China in a different way from Mr Bush . |
| 20 | Students are taught , for instance , to ‘ read ’ in a different way from that of everyday practice : rather than reading a text from beginning to end in the sequence in which the publisher has ordered it , they are urged to select what they want for particular purposes from different parts of the text , using the contents page , index , chapter headings etc. and moving backwards and forwards within that text and to other texts . |
| 21 | However : ‘ In context , the absence of clear sentence boundaries does not mean that conversation is difficult to follow : it just shows that conversation is organised in a different way from writing ’ ( Leech et al. , p. 8/7 ) . |
| 22 | We have already noted that local government operates in a different way from central government where ministers draw their executive powers from the Crown . |
| 23 | Water beds wear out in a different way from conventional beds . |
| 24 | James exploits the associative meaning of words , but in a different way from Lawrence . |
| 25 | A noun phrase in the X-position interacts semantically with see in a different way from a noun phrase in the Y-position ( the exact nature of these interactions can be considered part of the meaning of see ) . |
| 26 | Oh , he could see why it was important for Meg not to know ; she responded to things in a different way from him . |
| 27 | This is not to say that a series like Follow Me can not be used in the classroom , but it is organised in a different way from materials like Let's Watch or Video English which were made specifically for classroom use . |
| 28 | When you are talking to a teacher in school , you speak and act in a different way from when you are talking to your friends out of school . |
| 29 | Partly , this is because the author rightly recognizes that many users of the Statute Book approach it in a different way from a judge who is presented with two opposing interpretations with supporting arguments . |
| 30 | Some of them were some had got old cars in where the tyres , if it was a puncture it was these great big wheels with beaded edge tyres which you can , you put on in quite a different way from the modern car tyres . |