Example sentences of "[vb past] a way [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The society provided a way for the town 's art-lovers to assemble monthly for discussions , lectures , and demonstrations . |
| 2 | The objectives in Parts 1 and 2 provided a way of thinking about behavioural problems and a set of general methods for dealing with these problems . |
| 3 | It also indicated the slave trade as a peculiarly appropriate object upon which many evangelicals could exercise their benevolence since it constituted a burden of individual and national guilt and in its international character provided a way of extending and giving reality to the notion of mankind as a family . |
| 4 | This model provided a way of visualizing the pattern of morphogenetic systems over the earth 's surface during the Cainozoic and so lent itself to a clear way of integrating contemporary world zones with those of the past when ice sheets were non-existent or much less extensive . |
| 5 | For some Protestant thinkers , experimental science promised a way of reversing the effects of the original curse , a way of making a better world that might in some small way mirror the perfection of God 's heavenly kingdom , a way of restoring the world to a condition fit for Christ 's earthly rule . |
| 6 | Wolff originally described a way of learning CFGs . |
| 7 | dissertation the young Prince Louis de Broglie proposed a way in which waves might be associated with objects like electrons which had hitherto been thought of in purely particle terms ( see Appendix , A2 ) . |
| 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 | Actually Jacobi 's work went rather further than that , for he also found a way of calculating the number of expressions as sums of at most six or eight squares . |
| 10 | So she schemed until she found a way of having the second thing without losing the first . |
| 11 | In that year the German chemist Friedrich Wohler ( 1800–92 ) found a way of producing from inorganic materials the chemical urea ; always beforehand this had been assumed to be a substance that could be produced only by bodily ( biochemical ) reactions . |
| 12 | One branch of the molluscs , very early in the group 's history , found a way of becoming highly mobile and yet retaining the protection of a large and heavy shell — they developed gas-filled flotation tanks . |
| 13 | When Timothy Amsterdam returned from Europe he soon found a way of meeting Topaz on the Moor . |
| 14 | For instance , after extensive consultation with the community , health workers found a way of overcoming people 's reluctance to use rehydration salts . |
| 15 | On their third night she ordered him quite roughly to bring his legs closer together and found a way of rubbing herself against his knee while sucking at his neck that made him shudder . |
| 16 | ‘ I think my subconscious found a way of telling me a bit of what happened , Dr Vaughan . ’ |
| 17 | A lot of these were books written by moralistic females ; books which erm reflected various kinds of Victorian ideas , and much later on when I did some research in Oxford on Victorian literature I found a way of putting these two sorts of things together . |
| 18 | Steve Meyers claimed one of the very few good problems left at Tremadog when he found a way through the steep ground right of Erebus , providing No Holds Barred E6 6c . |
| 19 | It was softly carpeted with leaves and was still and silent , except when raindrops found a way through the green roof above and plopped faintly on to the leaves . |
| 20 | Mind you , I found a way round that : never clean the fingerboards … ’ |
| 21 | Frances Hodgson Burnett found a way by describing how a father handed on his code of honour to his son . |
| 22 | We found a way in which we could help the black community directly and in the most positive way with considerable sums . |
| 23 | This seemed a way in which she could begin to discuss things more openly with them . |
| 24 | Unlike these other writers Marx analysed in detail the workings and defects of capitalism and showed a way by which the transition to a future socialist state was possible . |
| 25 | We were all highly individualistic — in fact , what we had in common seemed to be a reputation for rebellion and trouble-making — but we shared a way into adult life , influencing each other and creating a collective strength . |
| 26 | For Thompson , living with the knee became a way of life . |
| 27 | It became a way of Leicester life . |
| 28 | ‘ Rather Red than Dead ’ became its slogan , and protest marches from Aldermaston Atomic Weapons Research Establishment to Westminster became a way of life for many church-goers , left-wing intellectuals , pacifists and liberal moralists . |
| 29 | An underground , ‘ black ’ economy was allowed to flourish as a substitute for politically indigestible reforms , with the result that corruption became a way of life . |
| 30 | The Incarnation became a way of instructing the poor and ignorant in truths long since grasped by the wise and philosophically educated ! |