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

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1 There were a long way from .
2 ( Recovering them is a matter of great urgency ; and a start has been made , but there 's a long way to go — especially with Upward , whom oblivion has enveloped with a completeness that is startling and significant . )
3 The early signs are encouraging — but there 's a long way to go .
4 ‘ I have just got it confirmed , but these things take time , and there 's a long way to go yet . ’
5 I 'm not getting into a fight over some silly little first-year whether she 's your sister or not , and if you 'll excuse me , this porridge is bad enough hot , but cold it 's inedible and there 's a long way to go till lunchtime . ’
6 We are sitting in a good position now but there 's a long way to go .
7 There 's a long way to go before we break down the ‘ them up at Salisbury attitude ’
8 There 's a long way to go before it sounds natural . ’
9 When are we gon na have rules revisions , there 's a long way to go and as the , the er General Secretary said , be careful , because I 've been to talks with , on , from the Regional Committee with the T & G yes we got on lovely with them , they 're fine , they , they gave us a nice big er commemorative medal of the dockers ' strike and it 's got my granddad and my great granddad on it cos they was there in the other union mind you while we 've done all the striking and that they stood by , but nevertheless they 're not bad lads anyway and as John said we must be careful that we are not the ones that are gon na be taken over , because I remember that old song of the fifties , never smile at a crocodile
10 ‘ Buck thinks he has it in the bag , but there 's a long way to go yet . ’
11 There 's a long way to go because many of these companies that we 've mentioned are gon na fight fierce competition from Europe and we need to assist them .
12 But there 's a long way to go .
13 Police say this year overall car crime 's on the wane in the county … but they admit there 's a long way to go
14 There 's a long way to go yet .
15 I still think there 's a long way to go and there 's a very , very variable standard if you take motorway service areas .
16 There 's a long way to go yet before full-scale resource management comes into the health service in Oxford .
17 It 's certainly better than nothing , indeed it is yes , but there 's a long way to go .
18 But there 's a long way to go yet ; U N observers were in Cambodia earlier this year , but without unanimous support , they achieved very little .
19 ‘ Now Kathleen ’ , she says , ‘ there 's a right way and a wrong way to do everything ’ , and she showed me how to wring out a cloth …
20 Yeah if you have to learn how to do something properly , there 's a right way and a wrong way .
21 One of the nice aspects of a task such as that is that I think we , as professional physicists — and I 'm a physicist too erm we , as professional physicists , feel there 's a right way of doing something because it 's the way we learnt and we 've got used to , and we tend to instil this idea into other people .
22 and there 's a one way road going like that
23 say , and there 's a one way road coming along , it 's got a two way traffic on the top , but it crosses it
24 There is , there 's a tremendous way to go , in action .
25 However , a DEC middle manager said last week that OSF/1 's life is not in jeopardy and that the real issue being debated is whether there 's a smarter way to do the engineering .
26 There 's a simple way to settle this , ’ he said .
27 Well , there 's a simple way to settle this , seeing as you 're so worried . ’
28 If you did n't see it , it 's a tricky one but there 's a good way , we 've brought up a good point as well , if we look at the car when the car comes up , who said Polo ?
29 If there 's a simpler way of recording guitars , Bryan and Keith have n't found it yet .
30 I scrambled to my feet , forcing the turban over my eyes and bending the feather till it stuck out like a pan-handle , went nervously into the comedy routine and finished by singing , ‘ If There 's a Wrong Way to Do It ’ and walking into the proscenium arch .
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