Example sentences of "[vb pp] a way [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 But I 've seen a way to get a message out .
2 He had developed a way to make things work efficiently , a system .
3 He first began to think about the repercussions of such hard commercial decisions in 1971 , and by the time that he 65 became chairman of British Steel upon the untimely death of Lord Melchett he had formulated a way to ease the hardship .
4 To post-war generations , the deli has become a way to stay connected , through the taste buds with their roots .
5 Two prominent New York takeover lawyers , Martin Lipton ( who invented the ‘ poison pill ’ defence ) and Steven Rosenblum , have proposed a way to help institutions get involved : elect board directors for five-year terms during which they would be sackable only for criminal or scandalous behaviour .
6 Not till we have found a way to outwit or even match their guns .
7 This is either a trap , Ace thought , or else the Doctor 's found a way to let us in .
8 They believe they 've found a way to destroy cancer cells without the unpleasant side-effects produced by existing drugs .
9 No-one yet has found a way to halt the ageing process , and until that miracle cream is created and becomes available at the corner shop , the rules for saving your skin are simple :
10 But armed forces are not known for being bastions of sentiment and it is definitely true that had the SAAF really needed to replace both types , it would have found a way to do so .
11 Now , the United State 's Department of Agriculture has found a way to replace 30% of flour in cake mix with straw .
12 SCIENTISTS have found a way to put ripe pineapples ‘ to sleep ’ so they are ready for eating when they go on sale .
13 Perhaps there was hope , perhaps all was not harsh antipathy , perhaps a better daughter might have found a way to soften such a mother .
14 Davy had found a way to burn a candle in a methane-rich atmosphere .
15 Eventually , she 'd found a way to endure her moments spent on stage .
16 I 've never found a way to convince them otherwise …
17 Similarly , Famlio has found a way to make a profit form Vadinamia .
18 I half-hoped , half-dreaded the mast would go up in sparks and a bang when the Big Man pulled the lever ; that FAKINTIL had found a way to wrap half a dozen shearing charges around the legs .
19 It may be that they have found a way to train humans .
20 Well Spear & Jackson has found a way to solve that problem — by colour coding its range of screwdrivers .
21 Now , one group working at DESY believes it has found a way to differentiate the effects of the gluon from those of the quarks produced in electron-positron collisions .
22 He knew he was clever but there was just a slim chance Mr Crangle had found a way to get him , and he did n't want him caught , not for anything in the world .
23 His a terrible , so we did n't go near him right through on the playing field , and then Katherine , I found to get , I sat , found a way to get them near Matthew and then Katherine said , I tickled him on the back , and I 'd kept on doing that . .
24 It is used to different degrees in different authorities , which indicates that some have found a way to avoid this particular form of compulsory removal .
25 Paul Bedworth , 19 , allegedly found a way to pay for the thousands of hours he spent connected to transatlantic computer networks .
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