Example sentences of "they [verb] a way " in BNC.
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| 1 | They discovered for themselves the value of taking note of the way pupils write of their school experience ; and by passing unnamed ‘ pupil products ’ around the staff group , they devised a way of cross-checking and standardising the assessment criteria that each was using in grading children 's work . |
| 2 | The Slavophiles were critical of serfdom and political oppression but they sought a way forward which would draw on what they perceived as Russia 's peculiar strength : the social solidarity expressed in both the Orthodox faith and the traditional peasant commune . |
| 3 | whereas it looks as though , you know this chap , they found a way to make sure there 's no metal in it and now the machine it |
| 4 | They provide a way for a testator to secure some of the dispositions in his will even if the will fails and intestate succession ensues . |
| 5 | But classroom practice is not put at the service of the principles , designed to test them out ; conversely , the principles serve classroom practices in that they provide a way in which they may be more clearly understood and more systematically carried out . |
| 6 | One argument for common investment funds is that at the moment they provide a way of getting round the narrow and wider investment bands that dictate charity investment . |
| 7 | They provide a way for Topic Criteria and more general processes to be assessed in context . |
| 8 | They provide a way in which the student can cover up his true self by finding a vocabulary acceptable to most people and a set of facts which are generally known among people generally considered to be generally educated . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , I think that anybody who studies improvising long enough will eventually get to the point where they find a way to get all twelve notes available all the time . |
| 10 | The royalties go to Birthright ; let's hope they find a way to prevent tragic cot deaths . |
| 11 | Erm and the car just broke up in half and that was , that had been er welded but like the police are saying as well as soon as they sort of get wise to what they 're doing and they find a way to er you know , get on to them , they devised something else . |
| 12 | They would be free from slavery , from work they were unsuited to do , but they lost a way of life , they had to look after their children for longer , they had to find other work to keep the family fed , clothed , rent paid etc . |
| 13 | They offer a way to substitute local wood and charcoal for expensive imported diesel and petrol . |
| 14 | We believe that they offer a way forward in the thorny debate about the accounting treatment of goodwill and other intangibles . ’ |
| 15 | Thus , they offer a way of working with employer partners in the active development of students ' enterprise skills . |
| 16 | And , of course , like so many palaeontological matters , they stir up arguments between specialists who think they have a way of solving the enigmas . |
| 17 | I think it depends what members of society we 're talking about , right , if people are educated and they have a way forward to improve their understanding , then they become less and less involved with a |
| 18 | because they , they just know they 're different and they , they learn a way of coping , you know ? |
| 19 | United huffed and puffed but could they find a way through ? |
| 20 | As does the whole concept of the Common Foreign and Security policy , they represent a way of thinking which sees military capability as relatively unimportant beside the dream of a powerful and independent European Union , speaking with one voice and free from American interference . |
| 21 | They parted a way through the tough bracken that choked the enclosure and their feet found the path to the front door . |
| 22 | Such blood , and the mud of Culloden , were the last Gaelic colours to fly over Scotland ; the clans looked straight into the mouths of Cumberland 's cannon and died , and with them expired a way of life — the Stewarts of Appin , and the Maclarens , and the Camerons , and the Atholl Brigade , and behind them Ogilvies , and behind them the prince himself . |
| 23 | To help them find a way out of the morass they had jumped into . |
| 24 | And if the boy , Kim , could help them find a way … |
| 25 | They 've built a model of the Venetian coast to help them find a way of saving the historic Italian city from potential disaster . |