Example sentences of "[v-ing] [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 | ‘ We 've experience of two kinds of Darkfall , ’ continued Gilbert , still looking to find a way around Cardiff , the words still spilling out of him . |
| 4 | An IRA statement from Dublin confirmed on Sept. 28 that Waldegrave was the target of the bomb and boasted of its ability to breach security and endanger Cabinet ministers " while less than a mile away Margaret Thatcher holds a crisis meeting to find a way to stop IRA attacks " . |
| 5 | oh I came , came to several conclusions , erm , one , one of the problems that the article faced me with , if it had been a simple outburst , if , if the , the Daily Telegraph had simply taken an advert out as opposed to maybe editorials then I may of had less a problem , because the problem with editorials is that they are believed , companies adverts are n't believed , well they 're partially believed , but an editorial carries a lot more weight and therefore when it 's written like that it tends to strike home much harder , therefore that , my immediate thoughts were that if were going to react , if we were going to find a way of cantering the problems we felt this had created , then we would not have to follow any normal course of action , we simply could n't put an advert out because nobody would have believed it , we would have to look at it a different way of actually cantering and that 's part of the reason for the time taking to think it through . |
| 6 | Moreover , by November 1983 American soldiers had gone into action in the Middle East , as the major element in a United Nations force attempting to open a way to peace in the Lebanon , long battered by civil war ; and in the tiny Caribbean island of Grenada , where , following a coup within the island 's Marxist-dominated government , the Reagan Administration — fearful of Cuban activities — had sent in the Marines , an action condemned by the United Nations . |
| 7 | ‘ And do you think a dozen or so irregulars are going to break a way into Parfois ? |
| 8 | They , for their part , attempt to justify their actions to each other , hypocrisy apparently continuing by habit , having become a way of life ( since there is no one on-stage whom they need to deceive , perhaps they have come to believe their own lies ) : The truth is transparent , however ; indeed , when Gloucester reports that the king is leaving , Goneril says , ‘ My Lord , entreat him by no means to stay ’ ( 301 ) . |
| 9 | Now Dr Mathews , a computer musician from Stanford University in California , is trying to find a way of getting people to take charge of music 's humanity . |
| 10 | If we enter this relationship to work with you … trying to find a way to bring back … the kind of government that you want then we have to establish … basic rules of order . |
| 11 | Zborowski had been trying to find a way of flattering the old man ever since the party arrived in Nice . |
| 12 | He 's casting around trying to find a way of presenting himself that 's different from his past life . |
| 13 | I had for a long time being trying to find a way of showing the heat-pain argument to be invalid , because I could not accept the conclusion , that heat exists only as a sensation in the mind . |
| 14 | Searching consists of trying to find a way to change the present state of affairs into some desired state . |
| 15 | ’ You can stop thinking , if that means trying to find a way to steal the phetam and sell it somewhere else . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's a new situation that we have got to handle and , somehow , we have got to find a way of breaking out of this low growth , and trying to find a way of getting our economy going again . |
| 17 | But others looked as though they were desperately trying to find a way out , gazing to the ceiling deep in thought . |
| 18 | The County Council has been very active in trying to find a way forward which retains the objective of relieving the A ten eighty eight of lorries , but reduces the rat run in through the small villages using what are no more than country lanes . |
| 19 | She got up stiffly from the table , with one last look at the scowling form of the man trying to work a way out of his hopeless situation , then walked slowly , limping a little , over the scratched glass floor of the room to the bright chill of the balcony . |
| 20 | Any adventurer who fails a WP test will be unable to get past the Ward , but the test may be repeated for each two rounds spent trying to force a way through . |
| 21 | Doctors all over the world have been working to find a way to test whether people like Peter and Paul 's Mum will have HC or not . |