Example sentences of "[subord] a way " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Rights of Way Act 1932 provides that where a way over land had been actually enjoyed by the public as of right and without interruption for a full period of 20 years , the way shall be deemed to have been dedicated as a highway , unless there is sufficient evidence that there was no intention during the 20-year period to dedicate it . |
| 2 | As house becomes a serious commercial proposition ( in a recent poll of 13- to 17-year-olds , nearly 40 per cent made ‘ acid house ’ their musical preference ) , many are going underground , viewing dance music as an art form rather than a way to generate karma with bank managers . |
| 3 | Leading politicians in Britain , particularly in the mid-nineteenth century Liberal Party , scorned the imperial enterprise as no more than a way of offering the unemployable aristocracy a means to enrich itself at heavy cost to the innocent . |
| 4 | In the West , a car is more than a way of travelling ; it represents freedom and flexibility and is a potent status symbol . |
| 5 | A very tiny handful of totally unrepresentative films achieved a certain notoriety but were in general lost sight of as attention focused on better films and in any case they were to represent a dead-end rather than a way forward . |
| 6 | They were usually minor KGB agents , and the two-thousand-dollar charge was nothing more than a way of increasing the Soviet Union 's foreign exchange . |
| 7 | In general , people not actually involved in it saw the Council as the beginning of a new ecclesial era rather than a way of concluding some long-standing issues and leaving it at that , yet the Council 's documents remain for nearly all Catholics the most authoritative Church teaching of this century , beside which even papal encyclicals have comparatively slight standing . |
| 8 | So reading becomes little more than a way of replaying Hollywood 's movies in our minds . |
| 9 | Mr Mitchell , clearly reflecting on his transaction , commented later : ‘ In this day and age , farming is far more than a way of life — it 's a business and you 've got to be in there to protect the right to keep sheep . |
| 10 | As an identity , the quantity theory is no more than a way of calculating the velocity of circulation . |
| 11 | Experience gained with the chopper control equipment on the Jubilees and the new bogies on 762 , provided a way forward , but there remained the problem of new bodies . |
| 12 | Piaget , then , provided a way of investigating children 's mental behaviour by looking at the talk and actions of real children , initially his own — Jacqueline , Laurent , and Lucienne — and also a theoretical basis for such study . |
| 13 | AMERICA 'S highest court jolted the nuclear power industry last week by allowing individual states to ban new reactors until a way is found to dispose permanently of highly radioactive spent fuel . |
| 14 | Cavalry can not break into a solid phalanx of pikes until a way has been cut for them , but once in they can do fearful slaughter . |
| 15 | Captain Edward Aloysius Murphy is alleged to have said in 1949 that if a way exists to do a job wrongly , one day someone will do it that way . |
| 16 | to consult the landed and trading interest of the nation , by lessening its incumbrances and public debts , and putting them in a method of being paid off in a few years ; which could not have been done , unless a way had been found to make the Annuities for long terms redeemable ; which had been happily effected by the South-Sea Scheme , without a breach of parliamentary faith . |
| 17 | Gas is promoted in some countries , including Britain , as a way to reduce emissions from fossil fuels , because it generates less CO2 per unit of energy produced . |
| 18 | In the two sea-stories it is an important clue to character as well as a way of releasing tension . |
| 19 | De Gaulle saw all such plans as a way to reshape US domination of Western Europe . |
| 20 | But Adenauer 's faith in supranationalism , as a way to guarantee democracy in Germany , was as strong as ever . |
| 21 | Charles de Gaulle had wanted such an agreement as a way to maintain French economic links to their former colonies , and it represented yet another important concession to him by the rest of the Six . |
| 22 | This was seen as a way to reward the unions for their opposition to Nazism , as well as a way to foster good industrial relations . |
| 23 | Groom stood her ground and , eventually , as a way out of the impasse , telephoned the Woman 's Page editor in London , who advised her that , as she was already in France , she should do the interview and would have to send it to the Ashleys for their approval before publication . |