Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] a way " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 10 ) It 's possible that there 's life on Mars ( 11 ) It 's possible that there 's life on Mars and it 's possible that there is no life on Mars ( 12 ) It 's possible that there 's life on Mars , and in fact it is now certain that there is Now from this set of dilemmas the notion of implicature offers a way out , for it allows one to claim that natural language expressions do tend to have simple , stable and unitary senses ( in many cases anyway ) , but that this stable semantic core of en has an unstable , context-specific pragmatic overlay — namely a set of implicatures . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | inability to find a way out of the financial tangle that they were in . |
| 4 | This requires both parallel processing and a system of constraint satisfaction , and connectionism offers a way of implementing such a system . |
| 5 | But Mr Fowler confirmed that the Government 's attempt to find a way of preventing strikes in essential services has so far failed . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Ryle ( 1949 ) is another attempt to find a way between extreme behaviourism and the mental/physical separation . |
| 8 | Let herself go a bit — ye get that with women whose men are giving them a hard time , and who hav'na found a way of getting their retaliation in first . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Football has a way of kicking you down like that . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | There must , we think , be some argument from analogy to provide a way round scepticism . |
| 12 | Could it be that the bureaucrats of primate research saw a way to parlay an admission of poor husbandry into a public relations campaign for the primate centres ? |
| 13 | Could it be that the bureaucrats of primate research saw a way to parley an admission of poor husbandry into a public campaign for the primate centres ? |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | These examples from practice show how family work offers a way to get even uncomfortable messages across , because the family as a whole is taking responsibility with the elderly person for major life transitions . |
| 17 | The meeting closed with the presentation of floral arrangements to two Kent teachers , Hilda Lodge and Eleanor Pitman who had both started Medau in the early 50's as members of Dr. Anni Noll 's post-natal class and having enjoyed that introduction Medau became a way of life and they both went on to quality as Medau teachers and have both taught continuously in the Kent area ever since . |
| 18 | Had he gone into the wood to find a way to cure the blemish ? |
| 19 | ‘ Your guess is as good as mine , but fate has a way of doing unexpected things . ’ |
| 20 | More time may be needed for the child to devise a way to make the meaning . |
| 21 | A final climb to the hut finds a way over ice polished rocks , made simple by ladders that snake upwards almost to the hut door , where the friendly guardian and her daughter made us welcome . |
| 22 | For its part , West Germany was unhappy about the restrictions that had been placed upon the economic development of much of its heavy industry by the International Ruhr Authority , an organisation set up by the Allies during their military occupation of Germany : the Schuman Plan offered a way to eliminate the Authority while still satisfying West Germany 's neighbours about its intentions . |
| 23 | Within two years he and his supervisor , Harry Mark , had completed a controversial piece of work pioneering a way to measure the spectra of chemical reactions on the surface of an electrode . |
| 24 | Shedding more light on Sun 's desire to make the deal , Ybarra claims that ‘ when Adobe gave Display Postscript to the MIT X Consortium Sun saw a way out of NeWS . ’ |
| 25 | The girl had a way of looking at her as if she could read her mind and Ida did n't like it . |
| 26 | The communications audit provides a way for the consultancy to examine the matter , to assess all aspects , and to talk to people within and without the company , before arriving at a point where a PR programme can be created and recommendations made . |
| 27 | Exercise provides a way of releasing a great deal of the muscle tension , and general physical arousal ( adrenalin ) accumulated in the body 's response to stress . |
| 28 | While I will argue that structuralism offers a way of understanding knowledge as language that can be related to other social practices without reduction to an individual knowing subject , it is to the Marxist theory of ideology that I will turn to help describe the nature of the relationship . |
| 29 | The instrumentation group devised a way of measuring continuously the ammonia content of the effluent . |
| 30 | The Incarnation became a way of instructing the poor and ignorant in truths long since grasped by the wise and philosophically educated ! |