Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thirdly , I hope to indicate ways in which spiritual direction might be developed as a means of nurture within the church . |
| 2 | I hope to show ways you can help heal our environment and enjoy yourself at the same time , regardless of your earning capacity , age , sex , sexual orientation , race , political ideology , whether you 're an individual , couple , group , family and whether you 're country-folk or a city-slicker . |
| 3 | What you do with it once you 've brought it to the surface is another matter : it is enough for now that you acknowledge it is there and begin to discover ways of getting at it . |
| 4 | Here the dissatisfactions of the twenties seem to give way to a realization that life is not a rehearsal ; careers are for real . |
| 5 | Each woos the other 's sweetheart passionately , and after initial indignant reluctance , the girls begin to give way , much to their sweethearts ' disgust . |
| 6 | Years of devoted service , but time to make way for a younger man . |
| 7 | ‘ Girls come up against an obstacle or two , maybe on tour , and they tend to give way instead of trying to overcome them . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Girls come up against an obstacle or two , maybe on tour , and they tend to give way instead of trying to overcome them . ’ |
| 9 | We deride our democracy and itch to find ways of improving it , such as proportional representation or abolishing the House of Lords . |
| 10 | Those who do n't keep rolling on the learning curve get left way behind . |
| 11 | The houses will be for people who have to move out of Bentham Drive to make way for a new rail link . |
| 12 | Scientific developments continue to find ways of screening for mental handicap at an earlier point in the pregnancy . |
| 13 | On the other side , however , we need to consider how such ideas in turn affect political life ; how the analyses and interpretations provided by political scientists enter into the struggles between different interest groups , and either help to define more clearly the nature of the conflicting interests or claim to discover ways of reconciling them . |
| 14 | Phillips and Williams ( 1982d ) suggest a ‘ positive ’ approach to transfer management in the rural sector in which housing visitors ‘ scout ’ tenants and try to suggest ways in which a small ( and diminishing ) stock can be better used both in terms of persons per dwelling and of the tenants ' patterns of spatial behaviour . |
| 15 | up , way up here , keep going way up right |
| 16 | The programme , whose costs are split between state and federal governments , is growing out of control , partly because states keep finding ways of shifting the costs to Washington . |
| 17 | There do exist ways of identifying the boundaries of stretches of discourse which set one chunk of discourse off from the rest . |
| 18 | hourglass , sundial and clockface give way |
| 19 | Move clears way for gipsy site |
| 20 | Moreover , the Wolof may retort that they do have ways of expressing multiple points of view and that we should attempt to understand these before dismissing them en bloc . |
| 21 | Anger giving way to misery and then to regret and eventually to … nothing . |
| 22 | Although wood is not easy to obtain and certainly not cheap , many schools do find ways of obtaining quantities of off-cuts of softwood suitable for the children to use . |
| 23 | And now I 've given way to my emotions when I swore to my father I never would . |
| 24 | In contrast , if the terms in general appear unfairly weighted in favour of one party , or if an individual term appears unreasonable , the other party may be encouraged to challenge their effectiveness , and a court may sympathise with the challenger and strive to find ways to reduce the scope of the terms . |
| 25 | So unless you 've got ways of keeping me here you have n't revealed yet , I 'm off . ’ |
| 26 | Having lived on my own for four years , I 've found ways of doing things that I like , on my own , without having to bother about anyone else , and now I 've met this man , it means shaking everything up . |
| 27 | I 'm particularly please to see the that we 've found ways of removing artificial obstacles to the recruitment of whole time and retained fire fighters and I look forward to seeing women amongst ten new fire fighters recommended in this report . |
| 28 | The Austrian branch of the Habsburgs continued to give precedence to the representatives of its Spanish relatives , the pope insisted on treating the French and Spanish ambassadors in Rome as equals , and the Spanish government ordered its diplomats not to appear in public with a French one of equal rank , and thus avoid giving way to him . |
| 29 | Performance is up , too , as the early small-capacity diesels have given way to larger engines , often with turbocharged variants . |
| 30 | In particular , the traditional , if untheorized , distinction between serious literature and ‘ rubbish ’ has broken down ; as Franco Fortini said , the occasional slummings of the aristocratic writer of the past have given way to a situation in which we all live off the ‘ guano ’ which our society produces day by day ( Cadioli and Peresson 1984 : 85 ) . |