Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] a way " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact Weill 's American years represent a serious struggle to find a way of addressing his lifelong political concerns in a popular language that spoke directly to the American public . |
| 2 | inability to find a way out of the financial tangle that they were in . |
| 3 | But Mr Fowler confirmed that the Government 's attempt to find a way of preventing strikes in essential services has so far failed . |
| 4 | The big bay three quarterbred was being driven hard into Artemis 's lightly framed thoroughbred , and Artemis could feel the distress signals through her hands and seat as the horse shortened its stride in a desperate attempt to find a way out . |
| 5 | Ryle ( 1949 ) is another attempt to find a way between extreme behaviourism and the mental/physical separation . |
| 6 | In 1971 , the Agricultural Research Council ( ARC ) and the agriculture ministry launched a research programme to find a way of turning the problem into a resource . |
| 7 | There must , we think , be some argument from analogy to provide a way round scepticism . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He waddled amongst the customers , using his not inconsiderable bulk to force a way through pedlars , tinkers , labourers and farmers fresh from the countryside , spending the profits of their produce on large stoups of ale . |
| 10 | These fundamental terms of the ‘ social contract ’ ensure the freedom to choose a way of life by providing such constitutional guarantees as freedom of the person , freedom of speech and the right to privacy . |
| 11 | Had he gone into the wood to find a way to cure the blemish ? |
| 12 | More time may be needed for the child to devise a way to make the meaning . |
| 13 | These reflected a growing interest in church growth and a desire to find a way to grow the church which did not just find its expression in building bigger buildings . |
| 14 | It needs more than will , it needs the imagination to find a way . |
| 15 | There was an intensified sense of a gap between present and past , and of the need to find a way of bridging it which would make possible an adequate statement of belief for the present day . |
| 16 | Although the first fruits of this decision took place in l982 , the writing had been on the wall , and read by us many years before that , and it took a period of some years to find a way of moving out of polythene , which was not only ICI 's own proud invention , but an area where we had been acknowledged world leaders for many years . |
| 17 | She looks towards Herakles , right hand out , originally with a spear to direct him and perhaps lend him divine power as he thrusts with a crowbar to open a way for the Alpheus to flood the stables . |
| 18 | The desire to ingratiate a way into the listener 's consciousness and thus inveigle an all-important content is the reason all these groups draw inspiration from Sinatra , Bacharach and David , Sondheim , Steely Dan , early seventies ' soul , to produce slick , crafted , sophisticated pop . |
| 19 | One longs for a machete to cut a way through . |
| 20 | How if we draw from the records of our knowledge to find a way to drive this ship of yours without the use of machines ? ’ |
| 21 | He has asked its owners to find a way to work within the restrictions . |
| 22 | At the hedge marking the foot of the field I have to look for a minute to find a way through . |
| 23 | That the audition process was one that examined you totally — your private behaviour as well as your theatrical ability , the two feeding into each other to find a way to suit the requirements of the part and the particular aspects that were being looked at by the director , Michael Blakemore . |
| 24 | NIGEL MANSELL 'S old boss Frank Williams will be waiting on the sidelines today as motor sport 's top brass sit down in Paris to find a way of saving next year 's Grand Prix calendar and prevent his Williams team from paying a massive fine . |
| 25 | And to the many other ways in which CARE is helping the world 's poorest people to find a way out of poverty and ill-health . |
| 26 | The Communist coup in Czechoslovakia ( January 1948 ) , the Berlin Blockade ( June 1948 ) , the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty ( April 1949 ) , the first Soviet atomic bomb test ( August 1949 ) , and Mao Tse Tung 's proclamation of the Peoples Republic of China ( October 1949 ) , all rekindled a sense of common purpose between Britain and the United States , and created an urge to find a way of harmonizing their atomic energy programmes . |
| 27 | Where communication is a problem it is for the local authority to find a way round this . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | They stood , in silent vigil , at her side : Tiguary implored the chief to find a way of bringing her back with them , offered himself in exchange , but Ariel knew that Sycorax could still not be moved any distance without endangering her life . |
| 30 | Karimov said it was vital to start the river diversion project now in order to find a way to supply the parched , heavy polluted central Asian republics and Kazakhstan with clean water . |