Example sentences of "of [pos pn] way [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know that but I 'm only doing this as a favour , and I 've got ta really go out of my way to get this piece of wood . |
| 2 | He trains his people to identify customer needs clearly and to go out of their way to meet those needs . |
| 3 | Does n't it recall the time when the church taught that our Earth was the centre of the universe , and the stars just little pinpricks of light set in the sky for our delight ( or , even more absurdly presumptuous , that the stars go out of their way to exert astrological influences on our little lives ) ? |
| 4 | All these arrangements are typical of the friendly , co-operative manner in which aircraft accident investigation authorities go out of their way to help each other when a high degree of trust and mutual respect exists between them . |
| 5 | We are far less controversial than most of them … and lets face it , anyone who receives mail from the list has to go out of their way to get that mail … unlike fanzines . |
| 6 | To make it as convenient for you as possible , Tampax go out of their way to produce comfortable , reliable sanitary protection that you 'll feel confident with . |
| 7 | Four out of 10 shoppers believe that supermarkets selling " environment-friendly " products do so to exploit the market and not out of a genuine concern to protect the earth , according to Mintel. 10 per cent of respondents in the Mintel survey believed that companies were hiding behind a green " front " , and those who went out of their way to buy green products did so " in spite of corporate public relations efforts " . |
| 8 | While the Council was in general described as having a ‘ pastoral ’ rather than a ‘ dogmatic ’ purpose , it went out of its way to name two of its principal documents ‘ Dogmatic Constitutions ’ . |
| 9 | And the irony is compounded by the fact that Derrida goes out of his way to resist any kind of adequate treatment in a book like this . |
| 10 | He went out of his way to meet foreign visitors from all walks of life — politicians certainly , but also a delegation from a Nobel prizewinners ' congress , a group of doctors connected with the medical movement against nuclear war , the Latin American writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez , a group of writers including Arthur Miller and James Baldwin who were attending the Issyl-Kum forum in 1986 , and many others . |
| 11 | This Bel-Shamharoth seemed prepared to go out of his way to help stranded travellers . |
| 12 | There should be no preconceptions whatever , no areas of intellectual abstinence , and we should go out of our way to build common cause with other parties around the world in searching out the way forward . |