Example sentences of "[be] a [adj] way [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | We 're a long way off retiring yet , Marlene . |
| 2 | ‘ There 's quite a cloud of smoke , ’ muttered Heather uneasily , ‘ and we 're a long way from it up here . |
| 3 | ‘ Ah well , my dear , you must remember they 're a long way from home , and many of them have n't had much feminine company for a while . |
| 4 | As I said , I 'm never often out , and if you 're a long way from home it 's always good to have some place to drop in to . |
| 5 | We 're a long way from Cambridge now , and my name is Rose . ’ |
| 6 | But it 's hard on Tour when you 're a long way from home and the only creature comforts you have are a television , a telephone and a McDonald 's around the corner . |
| 7 | You 're a long way from home here , right ? |
| 8 | ‘ And you 're a long way from being a saint , are n't you ? ’ he drawled mischievously . |
| 9 | If things go drastically wrong and you 're a long way from home and need to call for help the most effective way is with an orange smoke flare . |
| 10 | But , I mean we 're a long way from that , and I do n't want people to think that I 'm from saying er redundancies are imminent , er |
| 11 | We 're a long way from anywhere here , Fran . |
| 12 | when you go into the villa , A you 've , got to have a car because there 's not a shop and B you 're a long way from the airport and if you get taxis you 're talking about fifty pound a touch from the airport , so that 's twice , so there 's a hundred pound gone already |
| 13 | They 're a good way of starting off your suntan before you go on holiday . |
| 14 | No that , I I just walk like that Sir , they 're suede , they 're a special way of walking . |
| 15 | The company which makes them says they 're an effective way of getting the message across . |
| 16 | Seagram , last year 's winner , has been a long way behind that excellence this season , as has Bonanza Boy , the 1991 favourite , whose desertion by Peter Scudamore was clearly influenced by the drying conditions . |
| 17 | Mr and Mrs T questioned whether family counselling might have been a better way of dealing with a very complicated situation , or at worst whether an interdict could be placed on the older boys in the W family . |
| 18 | In the fifteenth century it had been a practical way of making agriculture more profitable , in the sixteenth it was more likely to create a vagrancy problem as men were dispossessed from the land , and this indeed was a social issue which came to the forefront of public attention in the Tudor period . |
| 19 | Military conscription has always been a useful way of soaking up young people and even though Russia is suffering from a decline in the birthrate the sudden release of a large number of men on to the civilian labour market might be difficult to absorb at a time when Gorbachev is trying to raise productivity . |
| 20 | Because invoice discounting does not involve banks of computers and armies of clerks to handle clients ' sales ledgers it has been a low-cost way of getting into this market . |
| 21 | Although it may have been a convenient way of getting her out of the country , this also indicates that Ælfgifu had previously enjoyed a recognised position . |
| 22 | In the 30-plus years since I started my CIT life as a student , I have found the many local and national meetings and lectures to have been a valuable way of giving and receiving information and help . |
| 23 | If you keep him quiet you are a long way down the road to achieving some success at Leeds . |
| 24 | Products are a long way down the line . |
| 25 | The new appointments demonstrate a commitment by the Saatchi brothers to restore the company 's fortunes and suggest they are a long way from turning their backs on the business they built . |
| 26 | ‘ You are a long way from Achnacarry , Piper ! |
| 27 | At the same time , many of the disadvantaged areas , such as parts of the Mediterranean , Scotland and western Ireland , are a long way from urban and industrial centres . |
| 28 | The only other sense man has had any success in recording and reproducing on its own is sight , although moving pictures and videos are a long way from fooling the human eye in quite the way sound can fool the ear . |
| 29 | Such interviews provide an index of ‘ psychological malaise ’ but they are a long way from producing the more concrete statistics provided by medical consultation , prescription levels and mortality rates . |
| 30 | Anne was right in saying that ‘ you tend to lose the origin of it ’ ; the origins are a long way from what remains , but it does not really matter . |