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 | We 've got to find a better way . |
| 13 | Somehow , the party is going to have to find a better way of operating this time round . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Dressing up helps to , helps children to find a simple way of changing role and to establish their own identities . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've been trying to find a tactful way to drop him for ages . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Salmon have to find a safe way upstream past bears , and monkeys have to get to the fruit without waking the jaguars . |
| 24 | He liked to find a safe way to get an accurate hit thus sustaining as little damage to the plane as possible . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | If electric cars are going to have a significant future , we have to find a cleaner way to generate electricity . " |
| 30 | By respecting these freedoms , the law upholds the right to choose a particular way of life . |