Example sentences of "to devise a " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , fewer species flower out of doors between October and the end of February , and you 'll need to plan carefully to devise a sequence of colour during these months , especially as weather conditions may spoil or interrupt normal flowering . |
| 2 | In these he has tried to reflect not only the period in which their music was written but also to devise a particular way of dancing inspired by the structure and tone of the particular piece of music ( see page 41 ) . |
| 3 | And that 's why we asked Professor James Leotard , who researches Body Culture at Milton Keynes University , to devise a series of six simple trolley toning exercises . |
| 4 | In 1943–4 , the British attempted to devise a Commonwealth approach to civil aviation policy as a way of countering US influence . |
| 5 | The Conservatives ' desperation to devise a counter-programme for the land , and the disagreements it provoked , demonstrate the degree of confusion which still existed in the Conservative ranks and the immense problems they still faced before the ‘ rampant omnibus ’ of the Great War rescued them by running down their opponents . |
| 6 | WITH only five sides in contention , it should be possible to devise a World Cup which takes less than three years to complete . |
| 7 | It was , however , misguided to object to loans on principle and MPs should amend the bill to devise a more equitable system which applied to part-time students , too . |
| 8 | Presumably the well of fast bowlers will one day run dry and then West Indies will have to devise a new strategy ; after all , India did not fare too badly in the 1960s and '70s with a quartet of spinners . |
| 9 | FFB plans to devise a business capable of controlling supply from the producer to the retailer . |
| 10 | The barons have yet to devise a way of providing football without footballers and loyal fans are required to pay admission money , just as law-abiding citizens must pay their taxes . |
| 11 | In seeking to explore the effects of different organizational types , a particular concern must be to devise a methodology sufficiently robust to counter the argument that any emerging differences may be a corollary of the differential skills of the particular workers who happen to occupy the posts in the different teams . |
| 12 | The first paragraph reads — ‘ The Sub Committee have fully considered the question of the formation of the Club and are anxious to devise a scheme by which eventually the Links may become the absolute property of the Members of the Golf Club . |
| 13 | When my children attempted to drag me into the Cumberland Pencil Museum in Keswick I started to devise a list of silly museums — corn plasters of the world , Peruvian nose flutes , or some such other daft idea . |
| 14 | Finally , I shall attempt to devise a synthesis that can incorporate the successful features of several theoretical approaches ( including aspects of the attentional theories discussed in Chapter 3 ) . |
| 15 | In order to see context-dependence in conditioned suppression it will be necessary to devise a procedure in which the contribution of the inhibitory association will be negligible . |
| 16 | Unfortunately , although not surprisingly , it has proved difficult to devise a suitable control discrimination . |
| 17 | As the best evidence for the effects under consideration comes from experiments demonstrating a difference between the acquired distinctiveness and acquired equivalence procedures , it is not essential for the theorist to devise a mechanism for both . |
| 18 | It would also be open to the theorist , of course , to devise a mechanism for acquired distinctiveness and to attribute the whole of the effect to this , denying the reality of acquired equivalence . |
| 19 | An article in a national magazine by Jack London on ‘ The Royal Sport ’ inspired him to devise a publicity stunt to pull in the crowds . |
| 20 | Any teacher who tries to devise a syllabus for a music class that will appeal to the members of the class for its relevance , or who attempts to attract the English class by giving them things to read or act that will speak to them in their own language is in danger of falling into the trap of ‘ thinking down ’ to his pupils , of condescending to them . |
| 21 | Similarly you list all the phone calls , meetings , documents produced and processed and other activities such as specific work contacts in order to devise a better way of coping with these factors . |
| 22 | There may then be a break of a few days while participants work to devise a training session . |
| 23 | Of course it was not possible to devise a service that would be all things to all people : some of the needs would be inconsistent with others , some were already being addressed in other projects , some were less crucial . |
| 24 | The intention was , firstly , to devise a service which was client-centred , which was sufficiently flexible to provide an individually tailored package of care which would meet the wishes of each client , and fit in with his or her timetable rather than with that of the service-providers . |
| 25 | Booth and Rowntree were more concerned with getting the measure of poverty than with trying to devise a general theory about it . |
| 26 | You are asked to devise a promotional advertising campaign for next Christmas . |
| 27 | Beyond that , there are plans to make the pump pistons and footvalves in plastics and to devise a system so that when the connecting rods are removed they also withdraw the piston and footvalve . |
| 28 | ( The aim of most fusion research is to devise a magnetic container shaped in such a way that the very hot ionised gas , known as a plasma , does not escape . ) |
| 29 | THE THREAT of snow , and the treacherous and icy driving conditions which it creates , has inspired Daedalus to devise a thermal counter-measure for the motorist . |
| 30 | The reasons for doing so were various , but prominent among them was that quality chess seemed to demand the ability to devise a plan and stick to it when circumstances changed in unpredictable ways . |