Example sentences of "a way [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Craned my neck to look for a way up to the high high bridge , saw a rocky overgrown path over the other side of the road . |
| 2 | Just before half time , the cherry and whites , who were black and whites for this game , forced a way through for the second try . |
| 3 | The way in which the police had cleared a way through to the front door of the building at which Mr Brittan was to speak was particularly controversial . |
| 4 | Men went down the main shaft and tried to clear it by shovelling the slurry into tubs which were then hauled to the surface but this was soon abandoned as it was realised that it would take weeks or months to clear a way through to the trapped men . |
| 5 | Training in skills such as singing or dancing often seems to involve not just acquiring technique , but opening a way through to the basic level of power so that it can ‘ fuel ’ the performance . |
| 6 | FINDING A WAY BACK TO THE BIG COUNTRY |
| 7 | MICHAEL KNIGHTON will this weekend contact Manchester United 's chairman Martin Edwards to seek a way out of the financial and legal impasse caused by his £20m bid for the club . |
| 8 | inability to find a way out of the financial tangle that they were in . |
| 9 | Boutros-Ghali proposed that France and Indonesia ( co-chairs of the Paris conference ) , in co-operation with Yasushi Akashi , chief co-ordinator of the UN Transitional Authority in Cambodia ( UNTAC ) , undertake consultations with the aim of " finding a way out of the present impasse " . |
| 10 | If this is so , then we feel that there is a way out of the various impasses discussed above . |
| 11 | While Byrne considered that Caroline Spurgeon 's " imagery analysis " offered a way out of the stylistic nightmare , critics of the English " establishment " were not so impressed , as Francis Mulhern has noted : |
| 12 | Again , this had some appeal both to the industrial managers of the Federation of British Industry , who had called for ‘ planning ’ at their 1960 conference as a way out of the damaging ‘ stop-go ’ cycle ( Jessop , 1980 ) , and to the party activists for whom ‘ planning ’ meant increased government control over industrial enterprises . |
| 13 | I started to walk a way out of the main bedroom and I heard P C say words to the effect of get down and I turned round to see what was going on and the man was trying to roll over to get up or that 's what I thought , erm not kicking or or fighting or anything but just to me it looked as though he was going to get up and I went back and with my hands just pushed down onto him and said stay there , it will all be explained er and then walked away . |
| 14 | The invitation to the superpowers , if approved at the Central American summit which opened belatedly here yesterday , could provide a way out of the continuing confrontation between the US and the Sandinistas and ensure free elections in Nicaragua in February . |
| 15 | The invitation to the superpowers , if approved at the Central American summit which opened belatedly here yesterday , could provide a way out of the continuing confrontation between the US and the Sandinistas and ensure free elections in Nicaragua in February . |
| 16 | A way out of the WIC problem — possibly involving a cross shareholding with Heineken — could win investors back to Whitbread . |