Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Social workers were given specific help in identifying their function to find ways to keep old people at home who might otherwise have gone into a residential home . |
| 2 | A parents ' evening in late February or early March allows progress to be reviewed half way through the school year with an opportunity to find ways of developing strengths and eliminating weaknesses . |
| 3 | It is the mission of the church to proclaim the Word and if some of our friends can not receive the spoken word , we have a responsibility to find ways and means within a sacred context of doing this . |
| 4 | Since the arrival of the National standards for assessment and verification , it has been our intention to find ways of achieving certificates for our team of external verifiers . |
| 5 | The Institute is so concerned about the smaller firms that are giving up training chartered accountant students that it has set up two working parties to explore ways to make the training system more attractive . |
| 6 | On April 22 De Sica met with interim President Ali Mahdi Mohammed in Mogadishu to discuss ways of ending the armed conflict . |
| 7 | In the following section we use case history data to identify ways in which the professional — parent relationship operates within the context of the 1981 Act . |
| 8 | It is the Board 's intention to identify ways in which it can extend examination options for secretarial staff . |
| 9 | The first International Conference on Nutrition ( ICN ) was held in Rome on Dec. 5-11 , when ministerial delegations from 160 countries met with representatives of another 160 food and health organizations to consider ways of developing a better global food and medical aid policy . |
| 10 | He wants urgent consultations between the Government and the oil industry to seek ways to ensure that any changes in the tax regime do not hamper exploration and appraisal in the North Sea . |
| 11 | The Dallas daily says that General Motors and General Electric have met several times in recent months to examine ways to increase their influence over the likes of IBM Corp , Compaq Computer Corp , Dell Computer Corp and Apple Computer Inc , quoting executives involved in the talks and industry analysts and the pact could create a consortium with a requirement as many as 100,000 desktop personal computers annually . |
| 12 | Burns was left out of the drawn League match at Wolves on Saturday to make way for loan signing Alan McLoughlin . |
| 13 | They took off at three Gs and cars behind had to stand on their noses to make way as the big Ford burned rubber off towards the next junction south and a break in the central barrier . |
| 14 | The room was still in the mess in which the incident squad had left it , the desks pushed together to serve as mortuary slabs and the movable screens stacked to one side to make way for the meat sacks being carried out . |
| 15 | He dreamed of a society where there would be no capitalist bosses ; no unemployment ; with food ; housing and medical services for all ; where old women would not be thrown out of their lifelong homes to make way for richer tenants and children would never go hungry . |
| 16 | In Denmark , work has already begun on demolishing homes to make way for the bridge . |
| 17 | Widespread deforestation to make way for ski slopes has eroded topsoil , increasing the incidence of avalanches . |
| 18 | It was the destruction of thirty churches and monasteries in Bucharest to make way for the Civic Centre which aroused Western criticism of Ceauşescu 's rule on a grand scale . |
| 19 | However , after a £50,000,000 compensation package for UK depositors and employees had been put together by the Abu Dhabi government on July 30 , the High Court in London granted the bank a four-month delay to allow more time for majority shareholders to explore ways of reviving BCCI . |
| 20 | ‘ In Britain there is a great willingness to work ecumenically and a longing to find ways that we can actually share in the tasks that there are within the country . |
| 21 | In December the federal parliament set up a committee to examine ways of streamlining the process of constitutional reform , and in particular considering the unanimity among all 10 provinces currently required to achieve key constitutional changes . |
| 22 | WITH TEARS and bitter accusations of government insensitivity , an Angus family were yesterday thrown out of their home to make way for a new road . |
| 23 | We dismantled the imprinting equipment to make way for the passive avoidance pens and I set about raising the grant money to let us move into full swing . |
| 24 | The tragic depopulation of the area by emigration had its roots in the collapse of the ancient clan system after the battle of Culloden in 1746 , and the subsequent ‘ clearances ’ or evictions of small tenants and sub-tenants to make way for much larger tenants to take up extensive sheep farming requiring very little labour . |
| 25 | These interests were to replace traditional joint or ‘ runrig ’ tenancies by individual ones , to remove small tenants to other areas to make way for sheep farming , and to ensure the availability of cheap labour for kelp production . |
| 26 | Urban developers working on the western edge of San Salvador defied a court ban and continued to bulldoze the capital of a pre-Columbian civilisation Cuscatlan , ancient capital of the Pipil Indians to make way for a housing project . |
| 27 | SCOTVEC is holding discussions with a number of authorities to identify ways of working together to support general SVQs . |
| 28 | At a meeting of Russian and Norwegian experts to discuss ways of dealing with nuclear pollution in the Arctic , Russian experts confirmed that at least seven reactors dumped in the Kara Sea still contain nuclear fuel . |
| 29 | Some 40 senior government officials from 10 separate departments held a joint seminar in mid-December to discuss ways in which the government as a whole could respond to environmental problems . |
| 30 | Amaury de Craon wrote to Edward II from Sablé in November 1323 telling him that the ‘ great uneasiness of heart that I feel as a result of the dispute between you and your brother the king of France , our lord , and a desire to find ways , according to my humble ability , to prevent it , has emboldened me to write the following things ’ . |