Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [to-vb] [art] way " in BNC.

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1 Other times , I feel so repressed and pressurised , I long to change the way I look , to be taller and lose some weight , but I know that 's not the answer . ’
2 I believe it is the most powerful poem he ever wrote and I want to analyse the way in which he maintains the clenched fist of resistant energy through four rhyming quatrains .
3 I … well , I want to find a way to ensure that we have a method that will help us produce only the best and happiest of individuals , so that when the time comes for control to be applied , it can be done gainfully .
4 Then I try to find a way of expressing the idea and there is n't one .
5 I need to find a way to persuade him . ’
6 It can also help to raise your awareness of new research and any political influences or undercurrents which stand to affect the way services are managed .
7 I think that participating in an Earthwatch project is one of the best ways to gain some knowledge about the environment and its real problems and therefore is a ‘ must ’ if you want to understand the way the environment reacts to human activities .
8 Just a slice of wholemeal toast lightly spread with honey or marmalade ( if you must have ‘ butter ’ , use a low-fat substitute ) is ideal ; but if you want to vary the way you start your days , the ideas below are inventive alternatives .
9 You begin to enjoy the way people can say ‘ The National Health Service is safe in our hands ’ or ‘ Nobody deplores apartheid more than we do ’ or even ‘ We do not have a shoot-to-kill policy ’ and you know that another hospital is going to close and that there will be another stitch-up with Pretoria and that another shooting is going to be quietly forgotten .
10 The idea that you you you look at people and you try to calculate the way in which they work , and and and how their behaviour and how their relationships affect other people I think we display a degree of not knowing very much about that , do n't we ?
11 Identify the rut , and before you try to find the way out of it convince yourself you will get out of it .
12 A glint of bright intelligence appeared in Cyril Causeley 's eyes as he stopped for a moment in his upward progress , and looked down at Greg : ‘ Ah , well — in this business you have to see the way the wind is blowing .
13 If you have a 286 or 386 then you have to find a way of converting the natural extended memory to expanded .
14 The point is , that you need yourself to be surrounded by other supportive adults for your own erm sanity and well being and that 's why I think erm you need an , a whole extended situation and you need to change the way people feel about , about children so that , children have more access to adults in general , and adults have more access to children in general .
15 I need a new designer and you need to find a way out of a considerable financial mess .
16 We want to change the way children are brought up .
17 So I think we have to do them , but I think it is very important that we do not erm , er talk to the , or communicate with the other member authorities in a way that looks as if this is Wiltshire saying , well we want to find a way of flogging off this asset without worrying about what happens to the future of the service .
18 If we want to study the way some material absorbs infrared radiation we can put it into a cell fitted with diamond windows .
19 He can seem a little wild to some people , but we seem to have a way of connecting and there 's hardly any friction between us .
20 If we decide to change the way we do business or change the way the application works on how it models our environment , then we have to revisit using this architecture every single client machine on the network and upgrade that particular business function .
21 I gather them all , unapologetically , into the same disreputable fold because they are all substances we use to change the way we feel .
22 On the other hand , the behaviour of the political parties is itself endogenous and we have to explain the way in which each chooses its position on the political spectrum .
23 If the nation is to create the jobs necessary to reduce the unemployment list rapidly , we have to find a way of creating or expanding service industries without the need for their dependence on the existing producing industries .
24 We have to find a way to utilise our fifty thousand members as an educational and propaganda machine .
25 We have to find a way of working together , and it would be a lot less wearing , do n't you think , if we could do so amicably ? ’
26 I mean personally I think one of the difficulties in the colleges is that they do still have a sense of being at schools , and when you have an atmosphere which is like school you 're tacitly given people permission to act as if they were at school , and so we have a and that activity may not always be very adult , so we have to find a way of changing the environment of the colleges .
27 He says the pressures on the countryside are just too great — we need to revise the way we plan our roads , housing and farming policy and take more care of the countryside .
28 If we want to understand the current penal crisis we need to examine the way this discretion is exercised , its consequences for the rest of the penal system , and the reasons for the continuing failure over the years to subject it to more effective control .
29 As feminists , we need to have a way of looking at this work which makes us think about whose shattered lives and suffering produced the money used to pay her for her paintings — namely the poor rural workers of Britain and Ireland and the enslaved African peoples working in the West Indies and the American colonies .
30 We need to modify the way chickens are kept so that this is something which at least is extremely rare ; we should try to prevent it completely .
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