Example sentences of "[vb past] a way " in BNC.
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| 1 | The objectives in Parts 1 and 2 provided a way of thinking about behavioural problems and a set of general methods for dealing with these problems . |
| 2 | It also indicated the slave trade as a peculiarly appropriate object upon which many evangelicals could exercise their benevolence since it constituted a burden of individual and national guilt and in its international character provided a way of extending and giving reality to the notion of mankind as a family . |
| 3 | The society provided a way for the town 's art-lovers to assemble monthly for discussions , lectures , and demonstrations . |
| 4 | This model provided a way of visualizing the pattern of morphogenetic systems over the earth 's surface during the Cainozoic and so lent itself to a clear way of integrating contemporary world zones with those of the past when ice sheets were non-existent or much less extensive . |
| 5 | For some Protestant thinkers , experimental science promised a way of reversing the effects of the original curse , a way of making a better world that might in some small way mirror the perfection of God 's heavenly kingdom , a way of restoring the world to a condition fit for Christ 's earthly rule . |
| 6 | Working on a project sponsored by ICI , Holliday and Supple designed a way to treat the 300000 t pa of waste acid generated from methyl methacrylate processing . |
| 7 | Wolff originally described a way of learning CFGs . |
| 8 | dissertation the young Prince Louis de Broglie proposed a way in which waves might be associated with objects like electrons which had hitherto been thought of in purely particle terms ( see Appendix , A2 ) . |
| 9 | Steve Meyers claimed one of the very few good problems left at Tremadog when he found a way through the steep ground right of Erebus , providing No Holds Barred E6 6c . |
| 10 | They have settled down , sorted out their personal problems , adjusted their lives to accommodate each other , found a way to cope with the pressure and emerged with a very strong successful partnership . |
| 11 | Let herself go a bit — ye get that with women whose men are giving them a hard time , and who hav'na found a way of getting their retaliation in first . ’ |
| 12 | I was debating whether to try to stop the bleeding first or to leave him in his uncertain state while I found a way out , trusting he would n't totally pass out , when I heard the main door creak open directly above our heads ; the way Harry and I had come in . |
| 13 | It was softly carpeted with leaves and was still and silent , except when raindrops found a way through the green roof above and plopped faintly on to the leaves . |
| 14 | Actually Jacobi 's work went rather further than that , for he also found a way of calculating the number of expressions as sums of at most six or eight squares . |
| 15 | Mind you , I found a way round that : never clean the fingerboards … ’ |
| 16 | So she schemed until she found a way of having the second thing without losing the first . |
| 17 | In that year the German chemist Friedrich Wohler ( 1800–92 ) found a way of producing from inorganic materials the chemical urea ; always beforehand this had been assumed to be a substance that could be produced only by bodily ( biochemical ) reactions . |
| 18 | This never ceased to aggrieve the Archduke , but he found a way publicly to show his love for his wife . |
| 19 | She was the last of the Roxborough line , he 'd said , unless she found a way to fertilize one of her girlfriends . |
| 20 | Frances Hodgson Burnett found a way by describing how a father handed on his code of honour to his son . |
| 21 | One branch of the molluscs , very early in the group 's history , found a way of becoming highly mobile and yet retaining the protection of a large and heavy shell — they developed gas-filled flotation tanks . |
| 22 | When Timothy Amsterdam returned from Europe he soon found a way of meeting Topaz on the Moor . |
| 23 | It was a skipper from here called Sopite ( he has his street named after him in the old town ) , who made one of the great technological advances in whaling , when he found a way to render the blubber down on board the whaler instead of having to sail all the way back home with it . |
| 24 | For instance , after extensive consultation with the community , health workers found a way of overcoming people 's reluctance to use rehydration salts . |
| 25 | On their third night she ordered him quite roughly to bring his legs closer together and found a way of rubbing herself against his knee while sucking at his neck that made him shudder . |
| 26 | After another afternoon 's fishing , he found a way to arrange a meeting with Sylvia later that night , behind the stables . |
| 27 | I had such a horrific adolescence and childhood , it 's not surprising I found a way out , an escape from the pain . |
| 28 | Eventually Vuk and Kopitar found a way to get the book published and it appeared in 1818 as a Serbian-Latin-German dictionary . |
| 29 | I confided in him and we worked at it together and I found a way to have an orgasm . |
| 30 | Accepting it first as an experiment , he found a way — beyond his belief — to bring his family together . |