Example sentences of "[noun] be [to-vb] a way " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I have tried to do in this chapter is to suggest a way of looking at towns as though they were a special kind of landscape — as indeed they are — to get behind the guide-books and the individual buildings to the secret history of these places : to draw attention to what I think are some of the significant bits of urban landscape that point the way into this secret history . |
| 2 | The two tanks were from the 10th Hussars and their job was to force a way through any roadblocks . |
| 3 | When the Forum for Educational Research in Scotland was inaugurated in 1986 , one of the aims was to provide a way in which teachers and others working in education could contribute to the identification of priorities for educational research . |
| 4 | One of the key motives behind the current legislative changes was to find a way of limiting expenditure on residential and nursing home care , which increased from £10m in 1979 to £1 billion in 1989 . |
| 5 | The church is to be distinctive from the rest of the world ; people around us are familiar with a way of life where rank and wealth matter , and people want to achieve what they think matters — only to find that it does n't satisfy them ; God 's people are to have a way of life which is based on equality in God 's sight , and not be measured in terms of social standing . |
| 6 | As the title indicates , life is presented as being like a game of hopscotch , the object being to find a way to the square of ultimate reality . |
| 7 | The problem of split identity is exacerbated , and again the goal of the main characters is to find a way of healing the divisions between intellect and psyche . |
| 8 | The trick is to find a way of giving the Europeans enough of a feeling that they can pursue security policies of their own without at the same time forming a European defence association that would drive the Americans away . |
| 9 | The purpose is to offer a way of intervening which challenges and focuses the work , which moves it on , which creates learning opportunities and deepens the understanding of the participants . |
| 10 | His goal was to discover a way of reconciling mechanism and science with the harmony which he perceived in the natural world , and with a life of individual creative freedom . |