Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] [verb] [art] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was replying to demands that he should resign to pave the way for talks between the Pakistan-based mujahedin resistance and Kabul 's ruling Peoples Democratic Party ( PDPA ) on a peace settlement . |
| 2 | I should like to suggest a way in which it is possible to give something for nothing . |
| 3 | The world has changed since the long , low silver engineering prototype was unveiled at the 1988 British Motor Show and Jaguar 's then chief executive , Sir John Egan , decided that they should try to find a way to build it , as the ultimate supercar to outdo Ferrari and Porsche . |
| 4 | The second ( which I prefer ) is to say that , difficult though the task is , one must try to find a way of writing rules that express what native speakers naturally tend to do in placing stress ( while acknowledging that there will always be a substantial residue of cases which appear to follow no regular rules ) . |
| 5 | You should have heard the way she talked . |
| 6 | ‘ Oh , you should have heard the way it was put . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'd unwittingly bought one by a rival historian and you should have seen the way she turned her nose up at it . |
| 8 | You should have seen the way Angy kept it … like a new pin . |
| 9 | The Poitevin barons must have felt the way Henry Morgan 's old associates were to feel when he was appointed Governor of Jamaica with orders to stamp out piracy . |
| 10 | Jamie must have liked the way Eva tidied it , because he has not yet pulled the place apart . |
| 11 | The availability of calculating machines , and now micro-computers , must have affected the way that maths is taught , and also possibly the skills that are needed to become a good mathematician . |
| 12 | But in most situations , when you 'd be asking a colleague on the same staff to work with you , you 'll need to find a way of working that is not going to cause massive disruption to the school timetable , that 's not going to demand that the headteacher come and cover one of your classes while you 're busy with your investigation into the disappearance of the crew of the Marie Celeste . |
| 13 | ‘ We 'll have to find a way of taking Fenella with us , ’ he said . |
| 14 | He 'll have to find a way round that clause in Edward 's will . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Tomorrow we 'll try to sort a way out of this whole mess . ’ |
| 16 | Though Eliot did not like Lindsay 's work , he did think that it might have paved the way for better things . |
| 17 | Before you can say Edward de Bono , it might have found a way of creatively accounting your taxes , so the taxman actually owes you money . |
| 18 | Perhaps there was hope , perhaps all was not harsh antipathy , perhaps a better daughter might have found a way to soften such a mother . |
| 19 | To set the issue in its proper perspective , we might care to consider the way time is used in adult work settings . |
| 20 | But the chapter , entitled ‘ A computer model of music recognition ’ — whose title whetted my appetite considerably — proved to be little more than a pious hope that studying the way a computer can be programmed to recognise music might help to understand the way the human brain does it . |
| 21 | Dingle , in the wild West , could have gone the way of Killarney , but this tourist town has n't sold its soul . |
| 22 | Since Mr Johnson died before the museum was built , he could have had no way of knowing the context in which his collection would eventually be shown . |
| 23 | Had the French taken proper advantage of their unexpected victory , it is possible that they could have reversed the way the war seemed to be going . |
| 24 | ‘ Ken was such a brilliant bloke that if he had an idea of how to deliver a line , he 'd try to find a way to block it . |
| 25 | around a table so that we could get to know , er , well , I could get to know the way they do things |
| 26 | Perhaps , in a curious way , CDs , which look so much like small-size videodiscs , may have paved the way for a collecting mentality . |
| 27 | The Conservatives saw the meeting as a chance to improve relations with a foreign power and have claimed that the talks may have paved the way for a future visit to Darlington by a South African trade delegation . |
| 28 | RESEARCHERS in Texas may have found a way of reducing brain damage in road accident victims who have been drinking excessively . |
| 29 | They can navigate home even when taken to the release point under such conditions as would make learning the way out impossible . |
| 30 | In doing so we shall begin to explore the ways people respond to and cope with high levels of uncertainty and demand , and to open up the question of whether some of these ways are misguided . |