Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adj] way [prep] " in BNC.

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1 That was how she saw things , and although she tried to foresee other ways in which events might turn out , she could not imagine any future that did not include Tristram .
2 It was a short stay , but the year was to be an important one , for during it Louis-Napoleon began to see new ways in which his devotion to the Bonapartist cause might be developed .
3 In response to criticism from both the Public Accounts Committee and Social Services Committee the Department began to develop new ways of trying to achieve the elusive balance between central accountability and local autonomy and bring the management of health care resources under more effective control .
4 Stane Brovet , the Deputy Defence Minister , also warned the defence committee of the Federal Assembly on May 8 that the JNA had exhausted existing ways of trying to avert ethnic conflict , and he accused republic leaders and the media of creating a fratricidal atmosphere .
5 But when Sweden 's shipbuilding industry slid into decline , it had to seek other ways of long term survival .
6 Last year we continued to seek new ways of putting into action our concern for the environment .
7 So when fish came to live there , they had to develop additional ways of getting oxygen .
8 Once evolution had discovered successful ways of constructing organisms it would surely have used those same mechanisms again and again .
9 A number of schools wanted to examine practical ways of putting their vision of Catholic education , already discussed to some extent , into practice .
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