Example sentences of "[to-vb] a [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | She used to come a long way , right from the top of to walk down to her Co-op , a long way . |
| 2 | This type of ‘ client-server ’ architecture also makes it possible to provide a uniform way for users to talk to applications running on different platforms . |
| 3 | The problem of evil has exercised people in all three traditions of historical monotheism and nobody has ever been able to find a logical way of reconciling it with the concept of the one God . |
| 4 | By the same token love is called upon to find a constructive way to point out a selfish behaviour in my partner . |
| 5 | I have no difficulty using gesso or in laying and burnishing the leaf , but I am unable to find a suitable way of laying paint onto burnished leaf . |
| 6 | And I suppose , thought Fenella , with a sidelong glance at her companion , that I shall have to find a suitable way , an acceptable way , of explaining about Nuadu to Caspar . |
| 7 | The Master of the Rolls has always been keen to find a middle way . ’ |
| 8 | The history of the SI is in some ways a struggle for recognition ( despite Debord 's evasions ) sustained by a radically negative critique which ultimately failed to find a middle way between Hegelian metaphysics and the dynamics of political organisation in the pursuit of its utopian objectives . |
| 9 | Whitelaw , concerned as ever to be the mediator , strove to find a middle way between Heseltine and those who did not want a penny extra for the cities for fear of being seen to reward rioters . |
| 10 | Liberal attempts to find a middle way between radical demands for outright confiscation of noble land and conservative rejection of land reform failed to save the Second Duma . |
| 11 | He also cautioned east European countries to find a middle way between " half-hearted gradualism " and the excesses of simplistic " shock therapies " . |
| 12 | After the great divide had been effected , it was time for the mystics to find a new way to cross the abyss and rediscover the old unity — not , this time , in the outside world but in the depths of the self . |
| 13 | On a more general level it is possible to say that since painting is in any case an art of illusion , in so far as it conveys sensations of volume and depth on a two-dimensional surface , it was easier for the Cubists to break with traditional conventions , to push the ‘ illusion ’ one step further , and to invent a new pictorial language , than it was to find a new way of dealing with the solid , tangible forms themselves . |
| 14 | He added members wanted the Government to find a new way of paying for NHS work , and hoped a joint inquiry by the Department of Health and British Dental Association would come up with a solution . |
| 15 | Malcom Green and Robin Perutz at Oxford University have harnessed matrix isolation work in the quest to find a simple way of activating methane , a process of enormous commercial interest because of the vast stores under the North Sea . |
| 16 | Dressing up helps to , helps children to find a simple way of changing role and to establish their own identities . |
| 17 | Precisely because the composition of phonolexical sets can not be specified on phonological grounds , it is difficult to find a principled way of specifying the lexical input to the variable ( u ) ; eventually eighteen words were assigned to the set simply on the basis of observation . |
| 18 | I 'd have turned it down without asking except I thought you might be interested — ah — because … ’ he shrugged , unable to find a tactful way of saying that this was the best offer she would get all year . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've been trying to find a tactful way to drop him for ages . ’ |
| 20 | If you 're taking a holiday more than a three-hour drive from here , he thought , I 'll have to find a different way of doing this . |
| 21 | Salmon have to find a safe way upstream past bears , and monkeys have to get to the fruit without waking the jaguars . |
| 22 | He liked to find a safe way to get an accurate hit thus sustaining as little damage to the plane as possible . |
| 23 | Wishful thinking apart , it 's more likely that he 's making the most of a nice soft bed and reasonable food , ’ said Marcus , trying to find a creative way out of the check Pete had put him in . |
| 24 | But classifying animals and plants , living and fossil , is more than just an attempt to find a convenient way of slotting them into different categories , like stamps in a stamp album , for neatness and convenience . |
| 25 | Armed with this hypothesis , they set out to find a convenient way of reducing carbon monoxide that might avoid the expensive catalysts and energy intensive conditions of Fischer-Tropsch chemistry — an industrial process that converts carbon monoxide and hydrogen synthesis gas to mixtures of organic compounds . |
| 26 | Military pressure on Mr Gorbachev to find a quick way of ending the war stems from a bigger worry : that , by letting America take over conduct of the war , the Soviet Union will see its influence suffer in the region , especially if American troops stay on once the fighting is over . |
| 27 | It was difficult enough to find an appropriate way of treating Churchill 's funeral without having to cope with an actor who felt moved to speak about it on behalf of the youth of Britain . |
| 28 | But when war seemed most imminent they faltered , hoping against hope that Chamberlain would be able to find an acceptable way out . |
| 29 | That , in some cases , that has been explored for the storage of heat in the summer which you would then use in the winter , but everywhere one comes back to storage nuclear power stations can not be turned up and down quickly at the moment , so either with electricity you have to have a uniform demand for electricity , or you have to , say , burn gas to provide an alternative way of generating electricity which can be turned up and down at will . |
| 30 | Rasterization is used to provide an easy way of visualizing the uncertainty in the output results . |