Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] a way " in BNC.
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| 1 | This existing history of ‘ miraculous ’ cures is just a hint of what may be available to the human mind struggling to find a way to greater self-help in coping with ill health and adversity , if only the vitally necessary ‘ faith ’ were more easily grasped and held on to . |
| 2 | With some innovative thinking on the way new energy taxes are applied , Mr Lamont might even give a helping hand to Michael Heseltine , the President of the Board of Trade , who is struggling to find a way out of the controversy over plans for pit closures . |
| 3 | He did have the ambition to do more serious work , as he had in Saint Joan and he had done in those early days in rep , but suddenly , he had got sucked into a formula that became a very comfortable rut indeed and , surprisingly for those who thought they knew him well , he did n't want to find a way out . |
| 4 | Personally I thought the fears overdone , but nevertheless I sought to find a way of transferring the operation to the private sector which would minimize the risk of industrial action . |
| 5 | It has become the means for distinguishing between leases and licences , the latter being the means by which lawyers sought to find a way around statutory controls regarding the levels of rent and security for the tenant . |
| 6 | Despite talks with party leaders yesterday , Mr Sartzetakis failed to find a way out of the impasse created by the resignation on Saturday of a conservative-communist coalition government which was formed in July . |
| 7 | Where Elizabeth failed to find a way of reinventing the monarchy , Charles , a child of the television age , succeeded . |
| 8 | The tribunals were intended to provide a way for rural residents to settle disputes without legal formalities . |
| 9 | On top of this , no one has developed a way of controlling heat pumps with microprocessors . |
| 10 | A Tewkesbury firm has developed a way of engraving both the customer 's photo and signature onto the card . |
| 11 | Owen , equally alarmed , was content to let it rest like that while he tried to see a way through the likely complications . |
| 12 | I … well , I want to find a way to ensure that we have a method that will help us produce only the best and happiest of individuals , so that when the time comes for control to be applied , it can be done gainfully . |
| 13 | So I think we have to do them , but I think it is very important that we do not erm , er talk to the , or communicate with the other member authorities in a way that looks as if this is Wiltshire saying , well we want to find a way of flogging off this asset without worrying about what happens to the future of the service . |
| 14 | It has to find a way to appeal to younger drivers . |
| 15 | In which case it has to find a way of lowering expectations of the public good , limiting damage by the pursuit of private interest , building a different notion of good citizenship and public virtue out of that private interest . |
| 16 | So , if the green lacewing larva is to enjoy a decent meal of woolly alder aphids , it has to find a way of avoiding being attacked by the ants . |
| 17 | There is even an echo of the testing time of his twelfth year in the fourth book in the sequence , The Betrayer , when he has to find a way of helping one of the Confederates , involved in a misguided conspiracy against the young Emperor , without being disloyal to his ruler . |
| 18 | Moreover the interpreter of a text has to make a decision on the relative importance of the different elements in a work , and he has to find a way of relating these elements to one another . |
| 19 | Finally , Ghatak tried to find a way between popular melodrama and the avant-garde . |
| 20 | Baldi , who had been watching the show , now tried to find a way around the Jaguar for himself . |
| 21 | She tried to find a way to explain without hurting him too much . |
| 22 | This was a reward for persistence , as the United strike force tried to find a way through . |
| 23 | One difficulty remains in that a mining venture would still need to find a way through to the deposit in a place where the sedimentary layer is not too thick . |
| 24 | But in most situations , when you 'd be asking a colleague on the same staff to work with you , you 'll need to find a way of working that is not going to cause massive disruption to the school timetable , that 's not going to demand that the headteacher come and cover one of your classes while you 're busy with your investigation into the disappearance of the crew of the Marie Celeste . |
| 25 | If sufficient evidence is not available , progress must be reviewed to try to find a way forward . |
| 26 | Union leaders are meeting management tomorrow to try to find a way of softening the blow . |
| 27 | While one would have liked to have thought that the injustice of B's situation would of itself have been enough to persuade the Court of Appeal to strain to find a way of bringing it to an end , the Convention considerations ought to convince a future court that it has the duty to do so . |
| 28 | Er looking at the rest of the P and L , you will see that we have split out a profit on sale of fixed assets which is our Lakeside erm Capelat and the Capco shares er which is why the corporate expenses for this other income has turned a way round , it 's gon na be negative nowadays , so we thought it 'd look a little silly saying other income less expenses . |
| 29 | To post-war generations , the deli has become a way to stay connected , through the taste buds with their roots . |
| 30 | It is a cliche to say that it has become a way of life , and that the stone-throwing is only the public , propaganda face of a whole political , social , economic and psychological transformation — the Palestinians ' own perestroika — which both sustains the Intifada and lays the groundwork for the eventual transition to statehood . |