Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [verb] a way " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was a reward for persistence , as the United strike force tried to find a way through . |
| 2 | Jazz had become a way of life for her . |
| 3 | Within this context he also criticized families for whom welfare assistance had become a way of life . |
| 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 | Yesterday , Dr Colin Campbell , of Horticulture Research International 's experimental station at East Malling , Kent , said his team had found a way of predicting the migration patterns of harmful aphids and could lay on ambushes to kill them when they arrived . |
| 7 | I half-hoped , half-dreaded the mast would go up in sparks and a bang when the Big Man pulled the lever ; that FAKINTIL had found a way to wrap half a dozen shearing charges around the legs . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , the family did cushion the blow of job loss for some women and their domestic role did offer a way of making sense of their experience . |
| 9 | Perhaps that foul seductress had developed a way of doing it absolutely noiselessly , and without movement . |
| 10 | But the Government did find a way of accepting a link between the riots and social problems without bringing its main policies into the debate : namely by linking the growth of violent disorder to crime and drugs . |
| 11 | Both the bolt and the lock were now broken beyond repair where the makeshift battering ram had forced a way in . |
| 12 | But it needed a penalty from the Republic of Ireland international to settle the issue as Villa struggled to find a way through . |
| 13 | But it needed a penalty from the Republic of Ireland international to settle the issue as Villa struggled to find a way through . |
| 14 | ‘ Andrex refused to pay the import duty so the container company had to find a way of dumping 190,000 unwanted plastic dogs . ’ |