Example sentences of "had [to-vb] a way of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had to find a way of being able to think of itself as the true heir of the persecuted church , not its betrayer . |
| 2 | They had to find a way of drawing Nadirpur out . |
| 3 | ‘ Andrex refused to pay the import duty so the container company had to find a way of dumping 190,000 unwanted plastic dogs . ’ |
| 4 | In some ways , therefore , France had to find a way of forcing the other five members into line behind his conception of an intergovernmental association of European states that would ultimately expand far beyond the Six , to what de Gaulle described as a Europe extending from the Atlantic to the Urals . |
| 5 | We had to find a way of convincing ourselves that any move , no move , any news , no news , good treatment , bad treatment were all indicative of imminent release . |
| 6 | I said that if I was going to get into the guitar business , I 'd got to make a highly precision piece — I could n't live with a 32nd or 16th of an inch tolerance and then have some old violin maker filling up the gap with plastic wood , or just leaving a huge crack around the joint as some people do , I had to find a way of making precision wood parts . |
| 7 | Finding the younger children schools took up all our time to begin with , and then we had to find a way of surviving . |
| 8 | I said that if I was going to get into the guitar business , I 'd got to make a highly precision piece — I could n't live with a 32nd or 16th of an inch tolerance and then have some old violin maker filling up the gap with plastic wood , or just leaving a huge crack around the joint as some people do , I had to find a way of making precision wood parts . |
| 9 | The fundamentally cautious Mehemet Ali decided to withdraw from Asia Minor and content himself with Syria , but Nicholas realized that , to prevent a recurrence of the crisis , he had to find a way of institutionalizing his short-term assistance to the Ottomans . |
| 10 | We had to find a way of reducing those change-over times by between 75 and 90% and to make the change stick . |
| 11 | does n't it come back to the issue of wh who they trustees are and who 's interest , given that trustees are expected to be independent , in the end , who 's interests do the trustees represent , because I 've had experience of working with a pension fund that was in massive surplus and the actualar actuaries refused to agree their final report until that surplus was dealt with , so that the trade unions and the employer through the trustees had to negotiate a way of spending that surplus and er given the pressures of the actuaries to say we were not allowed th the funds to continue unless you deal with this surplus , then it comes back to the issue of how the Board of Trustees is made up and if we accept that there is a degree of representation on that Board , then just exactly how that representation is divided . |
| 12 | Manchester Computing Centre is used to coping with multi-volume files , but a further problem arose when the file was too large to fit onto one of our backup cartridges ; as no one had ever needed to copy a file that large on to cartridge before , we had to devise a way of splitting it between two cartridges . |