Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] a [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 1964 ) he maintained that Barth and Bultmann had come to represent the extremes of objectivism and subjectivism , and offered his own attempt to chart a middle way in which both the given truth of God and the need for it to be apprehended in the personal encounter of faith would be given their proper place . |
| 5 | In the mid 1970s there was an abortive attempt to develop a new way of managing the industry in the Territories Plan ( which would have given a structure very similar to that developed in Germany in much earlier years and still in use both on DB and DR ) , but this failed largely on account of union opposition . |
| 6 | He also cautioned east European countries to find a middle way between " half-hearted gradualism " and the excesses of simplistic " shock therapies " . |
| 7 | By respecting these freedoms , the law upholds the right to choose a particular way of life . |
| 8 | Time and again , efforts to demonstrate a superior way of doing things backfired because some crucial element in the situation had been overlooked . |
| 9 | Far too much of the forest has been cut down already , but I think there 's enough to enable Nahum and his people to enjoy a traditional way of life . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | She has strong ideas about where pressures on girls to look a certain way begin . |
| 13 | Dressing up helps to , helps children to find a simple way of changing role and to establish their own identities . |
| 14 | Apollo was the first ballet to display a fresh way of looking at class-room technique for the communication of an ancient Greek legend . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Similarly you list all the phone calls , meetings , documents produced and processed and other activities such as specific work contacts in order to devise a better way of coping with these factors . |
| 17 | But it did mean that in order to understand a particular way of thinking — for instance that of the theist — it was necessary to pay careful attention to the way in which theists actually spoke . |
| 18 | In answer to the second question ; Christ is Paul 's loving Redeemer and the Giver of the Spirit empowering Paul to have a new way of life . |