Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] a [adj] way [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The history of the SI is in some ways a struggle for recognition ( despite Debord 's evasions ) sustained by a radically negative critique which ultimately failed to find a middle way between Hegelian metaphysics and the dynamics of political organisation in the pursuit of its utopian objectives . |
| 2 | I think that the genetic er , testing that was , that is now law , has to go a long way towards finding criminals , who once they 've been tested will find it very difficult to commit crime again , because they 're on record , and they 'll be on computer record . |
| 3 | In 1987–88 a new module , Graduate Careers , was introduced , designed to offer a new way in which student consciousness of this important issue can be raised . |
| 4 | And yet on the face of it , the inner route seemed to offer a better way of meeting the need than performing the functions that you seek for the relief road to perform in that part of Harrogate Knaresborough . |
| 5 | Both the Littlewoods actually , Banbury and Oxford are putting up teams , and so are , we understand , fifteen of the NatWest banks in Oxfordshire , so there 's a lot going on and er we think the walks in Oxfordshire are going to go a long way towards raising this vitally needed million pounds for the rainforests this year |
| 6 | Whitelaw , concerned as ever to be the mediator , strove to find a middle way between Heseltine and those who did not want a penny extra for the cities for fear of being seen to reward rioters . |
| 7 | In both , Schleiermacher can be seen attempting to chart a middle way between traditional orthodoxy and cold rationalism , to find a means of re-stating classical Christian convictions in a fresh and modern way which will not reduce them or dilute them , but rather uncover their real force and depth . |
| 8 | I said I 'd like to walk a little way with Bill Lawrence when he left . |
| 9 | Dr. Briant says he was born to have a nice way with him . ’ |
| 10 | However , the alleged principle appears to go a long way beyond authority . |
| 11 | If you 're taking a holiday more than a three-hour drive from here , he thought , I 'll have to find a different way of doing this . |
| 12 | They are most grateful for a pump within yards of their homes , instead of having to walk a long way to a dirty water-hole . |
| 13 | A trainer may frequently have to change a preconceived way of educating a horse to avoid some problem or bad habit that he or she ‘ senses ’ will arise . |
| 14 | But they vary considerably in their anatomy and , as is often the case when considering the simpler members of a group , it is sometimes difficult to decide whether a characteristic represents a truly primitive survival or is secondarily reduced to suit a particular way of life . |
| 15 | Somehow , the party is going to have to find a better way of operating this time round . |
| 16 | EVERY now and again , just when flower arranging has begun to seem a reasonable way of spending Saturday afternoons , the game produces something which restores the faith . |
| 17 | Sabat and Harré have recognized these problems and begun to construct a meaningful way of generating answers . |
| 18 | It will create interest in the foreground which I think is important and often , especially looking across water an expanse of water if you have n't got any interesting detail in the foreground yo you have to go a long way into the picture before it begins to get interesting . |
| 19 | We have managed to get a fair way into this chapter on food and diet before mentioning that subject dear to a slimmer 's heart , the calorific value of food . |
| 20 | But for more complicated molecules we need to have a systematic way of working out how many of the molecular vibrations will be active . |
| 21 | This was partly because each brand of typesetting machine tended to have a different way of preparing the bit-map , but it also had to do with the very nature of the technique : rotating the letters , making them larger or smaller , or altering them in any way involved a new bit-map . |