Example sentences of "a way " in BNC.
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| 1 | The long-promised higher frequency Vikings that would go a ways to proving Sparc 's scalability are supposed to be producible by the end of the fourth quarter or the first part of the new year , according to TI . |
| 2 | And er that er very often the criminal fraternity are looking at it as a ways and means of getting out of coming to court . |
| 3 | We just popped out to get a beer and a burger , down-state a ways . |
| 4 | Not close , out a ways , as if giving themselves room to move around in . |
| 5 | He was sitting his roan horse on this side of the street but down a ways . |
| 6 | Secondly , the formal analysis which is second nature to a Western critic can be fruitful , even though it could be argued that this is a way of interpreting the objects of an unfamiliar culture rather than a description . |
| 7 | But they are a reality which Naipaul treats in such a way that they , too , can at times seem phantasmagorical . |
| 8 | Salim is an Aeneas who makes it to London , where those of his blood are founding a way of life , and he has his Dido both in Yvette and in Metty . |
| 9 | We may be meant to think that time is simultaneous , in a way that may owe something to the simultaneity propounded , ‘ perhaps ’ , in Eliot 's Four Quartets , where ‘ History is now and England ’ ; or that it is cyclical , a turning wheel , with human depravity paling into insignificance as the wheel turns into modern times . |
| 10 | Klima 's first loves have a way of not working out ; and what may have been his longest affair is the one about which least is said . |
| 11 | A linguistic point was made in the course of the review — that Julian Ormerod 's lounge-bar slang is ‘ continuous , in a way , with Patrick 's cool utterance ’ — and the review also made out that Ormerod 's overdone good heart is continuous , in a way , with Jenny 's . |
| 12 | A linguistic point was made in the course of the review — that Julian Ormerod 's lounge-bar slang is ‘ continuous , in a way , with Patrick 's cool utterance ’ — and the review also made out that Ormerod 's overdone good heart is continuous , in a way , with Jenny 's . |
| 13 | Thinking about women is a way of avoiding the thought of death — and yet women may be the end of you . |
| 14 | The Facts is able to treat the historical conditioning of Portnoy 's Complaint in a way in which the novel itself was not in a position to do . |
| 15 | But it would also appear to know its own place in history in a way which an exercise of the furious imagination in art can sometimes seem to prevent . |
| 16 | The film is therefore built up in pieces , a process which makes particular demands of an actor — who is also vulnerable to technical problems with cameras , lighting and editing in a way which is quite removed from the stage actor 's experience . |
| 17 | Either way , the main intention will be to establish a way of working , and to begin assessing students ' voice and movement abilities . |
| 18 | In drama schools , improvisation is about finding a way of expanding the imagination and liberating the senses , which can get too confined if students work entirely from a text all the time . |
| 19 | It centres the classical traditions in a way that no other kind of training can do . |
| 20 | So in a way we never stop training . |
| 21 | And that means in a way one never stops working . |
| 22 | That the audition process was one that examined you totally — your private behaviour as well as your theatrical ability , the two feeding into each other to find a way to suit the requirements of the part and the particular aspects that were being looked at by the director , Michael Blakemore . |
| 23 | New actors need to try and widen their range all the time and in the same breath find a way of being commercially as well as artistically viable . |
| 24 | Of course you can not teach confidence but you can teach a way of acquiring it . |
| 25 | Playing Richard III combines both of these features for you in a way that makes your point . |
| 26 | Oh , much ; just like the profession itself in a way . |
| 27 | These were to be intermediary between capital and labour and based precisely upon types of vocational expertise in a way similar to medieval guilds ( Leo XIII 1903 : 240–7 ; Pius XI 1931 : 32–4 ) . |
| 28 | It is almost as if the catholic Irish people become a people of God in Old Testament terms , in a way similar to the Northern Calvinists , a people which have overriding power to set up their domain . |
| 29 | Our civilization has at least this to its credit , he wrote , that it has found a way of rounding up this dishonest crap and incarcerating it in morgues , in fortified places with guards and alarm bells and the rest , thus keeping it off the streets , protecting decent citizens , and now , he wrote , there are even moves afoot to repel intruders by making them pay hard cash to enter these fortified places . |
| 30 | I like the sense of its filling the room and yet also , in a way , of its being non-existent . |