Example sentences of "[vb infin] its way to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mite of scabies has a particular preference for certain sites on the body , and , if placed away from one of these favoured places , will make its way to a more satisfactory area . |
| 2 | A parade through the town involving local youngsters , Middlesbrough FC stars Mark Proctor and Curtis Fleming , floats , fire engines and council vehicles will make its way to Central Gardens where TV presenter Paul Frost , will preside over open-air activities . |
| 3 | Although the local authority was sympathetic to her problem , the sum of money available to it for discretionary grants had been severely cut in recent years , so it could not see its way to helping her further . |
| 4 | ( In the event , at the end of 1991 prices were weak , with Algeria 's Nordine Ait Laoussine on Christmas Eve predicting worse developments still unless OPEC could see its way to reducing output . ) |
| 5 | The question then might be : can the one-party system steer its way to economic triumph ? |
| 6 | The strong views expressed on both sides of the House — which in itself is unusual , divided as it is in its political structure — on the way that the right hon. Gentleman has carried out his job should send a clear message to the IRA : that it will not bomb its way to the conference table ; it will not affect us now ; it will not affect us during the general election ; and it will not affect us after the general election . |
| 7 | Donna took a sip of the brandy , feeling it burn its way to her stomach . |
| 8 | Octavia Hill believed , with most other Victorians , that housing should pay its way to her , housing subsidies were unthinkable . |
| 9 | And Allied Signal Corp chairman Lawrence Bossidy has initiated the UK ‘ manufacturing versus services ’ debate in the US , suggesting that for those that believe that IBM Corp should be making more , cheaper rather than shuttering factories all over the place , he might have been the right man for the job : US industry ‘ can not slash its way to prosperity , ’ he told the new Design & Manufacturing Institute of the Stevens Institute of Technology — adding that while design innovation is a US strength , ‘ we need to extend US technological excellence from the design laboratory to the manufacturing floor — American business needs to find ways to improve the speed with which we convert innovative design into high-quality , marketable product ; many of our factory floors are populated by high-school graduates or dropouts , with a few engineers serving as supervisors safely ensconced behind glass walls , ’ Bossidy said , where Japanese shop floors are staffed much more by graduate engineers who work directly with well-trained workers , to solve problems and improve manufacturing efficiency . |
| 10 | I judged our Swiss hosts to be sincere in saying that their latest equipment would be offered on a preferential basis to NATO and other friendly countries , and that it would not find its way to Argentina . |
| 11 | A news , release sent to The Times , New Printing House Square , Gray 's Inn Road , London WC1 may possibly find its way to one person who will be interested in it , but it is not very likely . |
| 12 | Once manufactured and distributed , the material may always find its way to the hands of others who are less equable , so that its effect may be to stir up racial hatred indirectly . |
| 13 | The food that India produces does not find its way to the people who need it as efficiently as it did in the Maharashtra drought . |
| 14 | ( See Hall v Marians 19 TC 582 , Wild v King Smith 24 TC 86 , IRC v Gordon 33 TC 226 cf Lord Radcliffe in Thompson v Moyse 39 TC 29 at 337 ; it is not felt that Harmel v Wright 49 TC 149 at 159 alters the position because if one is " keeping one 's eye " ( p157E ) on the income and benefit it does not find its way to the United Kingdom ( it is hardly the case that the income and benefit " come in at one end of a conduit pipe and pass through certain traceable pipes until they come out at the other end to the taxpayer ( in the United Kingdom " ) ) . ) |
| 15 | This Mobil Touring Theatre production will later find its way to Darlington Civic and Newcastle Tyne Theatre on a four-month national tour . |
| 16 | This is one machine that will quite easily fight its way to the top of the £300 pile ; lend it your ears . |
| 17 | A wolf skulked past , sniffed at the totem , scrabbled in the hard snow for the corpse of the grandmother and dragged out one of her arms , limping into the night with this meagre feast , to find some place where it could chew its way to the frozen marrow . |
| 18 | The IRA should have no illusions that it can bomb and shoot its way to the conference table , for it can not . |