Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] a way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Notebooks provide a way to organize many spreadsheets together in the same file . |
| 2 | The motorbikes clear a way but fans still jump into the road , running behind their favourites and pushing them . |
| 3 | You will agree , I think , that parliamentary candidates need a way of cheering themselves up . |
| 4 | Like other human institutions , restaurants have a way of staying the same after all manner of changes — of menu , chef , management , even premises . |
| 5 | The proposed closure of the USM , though not before the end of 1996 ( it will remain open to new entrants until the end of next year ) has thrown sharply into focus the debate on how smaller companies find a way of closing the much quoted ‘ equity gap ’ which they and their advisers have long argued makes it harder for them to raise any significant degree of long-term capital other than debt finance . |
| 6 | Religious ideas offer a way of coping with this situation by suggesting that these events occur perhaps to punish men for wrongdoing , and that the gods who cause these happenings can be placated by worship and sacrifices . |
| 7 | It may be necessary to advertise but it is my experience that relatives have a way of surfacing after a death . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ These things have a way of working down . ’ |
| 9 | 17.9 Even so , the various features characteristically associated with casual conversation and with formal writing provide a way of organising programmes of study . |
| 10 | Satellite communications provide a way round this , and now Iridium Inc — a company founded recently by a consortium of companies including Motorola Inc — is to place a constellation of 66 satellites around the earth , costing $3,000m , for a commercial service that is expected to span the globe by 1998 . |
| 11 | Satellite communications provide a way round this , and now Iridium Inc — a company founded recently by a consortium of companies including Motorola Inc — is to place a constellation of 66 satellites around the earth , costing $3bn , for a commercial service that is expected to span the globe by 1998 . |
| 12 | New actors need to try and widen their range all the time and in the same breath find a way of being commercially as well as artistically viable . |
| 13 | ‘ Bodies have a way of doing that , ’ he said . |
| 14 | So how can you as a daughter find a way through the maze of difficulties that confronts you when you undertake the care of an elderly parent ? |
| 15 | There are stacks of wobblingly barmy basslines and the Whiteouts have a way with scratchy guitars which hints at rather more fevered performances in the future . |
| 16 | Objects offer a way into the past . |
| 17 | I strongly request that the Minister consider a way in which a one-stop application could be made in such cases . |
| 18 | He even gets to duke it out with the bad guy — hard to do when you 're a disembodied ghost , conventionally restricted to shifting ornaments and the like , but under pressure form Patrick 's agents , the filmmakers find a way . |
| 19 | At times Great Chaos beasts find a way down to Avelorn from the Annulii and ravage the land , but they are swiftly and ruthlessly hunted down by the Everqueen 's would-be consorts in an effort to gain her favour . |
| 20 | Only when doubt is regarded as sufficiently dire does the profession of doubt become a way for a person to define himself . |
| 21 | These restrictions offer a way of identifying union wages , membership and employment equations in a simultaneous equation framework . |
| 22 | Klima 's first loves have a way of not working out ; and what may have been his longest affair is the one about which least is said . |
| 23 | Soldiers have a way of adapting to change . |
| 24 | The new rules include a way in which national policy , currently decided at conference , can be overturned if a certain number of university unions oppose it . |
| 25 | The plan should show plot numbers , but a warning is necessary here : builders have a way of changing boundaries , plot numbers and details of plans without informing their solicitors . |
| 26 | ‘ Front ’ cultures have a way of incorporating apparent resistances and incorporating them into forms compatible with the established social order . |
| 27 | The nominalizations offer a way of presenting the information from a perspective similar to that of the Portuguese text . |
| 28 | ECLIPSES have a way of introducing new people into your life and , with four of them between December 1992 and November 29 1993 , there are four major opportunities for fateful encounters . |