Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [to-vb] 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 | Finally , Ghatak tried to find a way between popular melodrama and the avant-garde . |
| 3 | This was a reward for persistence , as the United strike force tried to find a way through . |
| 4 | In houses built from local materials , furnished in traditional ways by country craftsmen , the imagination sought to rediscover a way of life in harmony with the human community that produced it : ‘ In these English farms , if anywhere , ’ E. M. Forster writes in Howards End ( 1910 ) , ‘ one might see life steadily and see it whole … connect without bitterness until all men are brothers . |
| 5 | Monitoring of this sort seemed to offer a way forward . |
| 6 | 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 " . |
| 7 | A serious incident was averted , however — although one ‘ threatening individual ’ was detained — and officials managed to clear a way through . |
| 8 | A group of evangelical youth organisations wanted to find a way to send 18–23 year olds they had been involved in discipling to put their faith to work . |
| 9 | Ironically , though Sweeney appears to promise a way out , he may only lead the sensitive reader back into the circle of sexual-religious speculations . |
| 10 | There are readings throughout the Christian Bible which give help to people who are tense , lonely , bereaved , concerned for others or have a weakness in faith and about hundreds of other things and from these readings many people begin to see a way out of their problem . |
| 11 | does n't it come back to the issue of wh who they trustees are and who 's interest , given that trustees are expected to be independent , in the end , who 's interests do the trustees represent , because I 've had experience of working with a pension fund that was in massive surplus and the actualar actuaries refused to agree their final report until that surplus was dealt with , so that the trade unions and the employer through the trustees had to negotiate a way of spending that surplus and er given the pressures of the actuaries to say we were not allowed th the funds to continue unless you deal with this surplus , then it comes back to the issue of how the Board of Trustees is made up and if we accept that there is a degree of representation on that Board , then just exactly how that representation is divided . |
| 12 | It has become the means for distinguishing between leases and licences , the latter being the means by which lawyers sought to find a way around statutory controls regarding the levels of rent and security for the tenant . |
| 13 | Soon , he lost track of time and it was after what he judged to be many days , he was heartened to hear , occasionally , the far-off sound of metal on rock as his friends tried to clear a way through to him . |
| 14 | If response is enhanced by learning to look for more , then this approach seems to offer a way whereby such looking can be energized . |
| 15 | Empowerment , which has its roots in the US , has taken on new significance recently as American corporations try to find a way to compete more effectively with the Japanese . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | In some ways , therefore , France had to find a way of forcing the other five members into line behind his conception of an intergovernmental association of European states that would ultimately expand far beyond the Six , to what de Gaulle described as a Europe extending from the Atlantic to the Urals . |
| 18 | Baxter had to find a way to stop the piglets getting out to bully their mother and steal milk from others with younger litters . |
| 19 | Despite talks with party leaders yesterday , Mr Sartzetakis failed to find a way out of the impasse created by the resignation on Saturday of a conservative-communist coalition government which was formed in July . |
| 20 | I hope Aldus manage to find a way to speed up the next version so that we can all enjoy IntelliDraw , irrespective of class of machine . |
| 21 | On his way back to the Incident Room Wycliffe had to weave a way through milling crowds who had deserted the beaches and taken to window shopping . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Where Elizabeth failed to find a way of reinventing the monarchy , Charles , a child of the television age , succeeded . |
| 24 | But it needed a penalty from the Republic of Ireland international to settle the issue as Villa struggled to find a way through . |
| 25 | But it needed a penalty from the Republic of Ireland international to settle the issue as Villa struggled to find a way through . |
| 26 | ‘ Andrex refused to pay the import duty so the container company had to find a way of dumping 190,000 unwanted plastic dogs . ’ |
| 27 | While one would have liked to have thought that the injustice of B's situation would of itself have been enough to persuade the Court of Appeal to strain to find a way of bringing it to an end , the Convention considerations ought to convince a future court that it has the duty to do so . |