Example sentences of "[to-vb] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Curbs sought on laundering : World experts meet today to find ways to hit drug traffickers where it hurts — in their pockets , writes John Eisenhammer . |
| 2 | While Mountbatten was still alive , Charles had begun working on many projects and had become enthused by what he could do to help the young and the disadvantaged ; he was fired by what needed to be done in the inner cities and keen to find ways of defusing racial tension . |
| 3 | It emphasises that airlines should get together to find ways of combating terrorism . |
| 4 | VIA also has to pay heavily to use the tracks and it is almost universally agreed that CP in particular has spent the last 12 years over-charging and trying to find ways of clearing the passenger trains from the path of its lucrative freights . |
| 5 | The development of Defence policy since the Second World War has been dominated as much by efforts to find ways off the ‘ Military Road to Absurdity ’ as by the struggle for resources in the Whitehall market-place . |
| 6 | ‘ Each is only concerned to find ways of advocating it without getting it . ’ |
| 7 | Discriminatory and punitive rates , like Mr Smith 's 59 per cent , not only put many of the most agile brains in the country to work to find ways of avoiding them but create a profound disinclination to work harder or take risks when you have to give nearly 60 per cent of it to the Government . |
| 8 | We deride our democracy and itch to find ways of improving it , such as proportional representation or abolishing the House of Lords . |
| 9 | It may well be possible to find ways of dealing with the demands of the various themes of these acts by yet greater dependence upon the hierarchical/control model — indeed it almost certainly will be — but at what level of success in terms of the educational needs of the pupils and at what cost to the motivation of staff ? |
| 10 | Scientific developments continue to find ways of screening for mental handicap at an earlier point in the pregnancy . |
| 11 | There needs to be regular joint reviews held between the contractor and the school to find ways of improving the service offered to children . |
| 12 | A parents ' evening in late February or early March allows progress to be reviewed half way through the school year with an opportunity to find ways of developing strengths and eliminating weaknesses . |
| 13 | The staff need to find ways of making interviews with parents an equal dialogue avoiding questions or statements that are too open or by drowning parents under a deluge of attainment target levels and SAT results . |
| 14 | In the context of their own writing they should be encouraged to find ways to reduce repetition , eg by replacing a noun phrase by a pronoun , or a verb phrase by … did too . |
| 15 | The challenge is to find ways to support the existing popular structures so that they can better continue their struggle . ’ |
| 16 | We , society as a whole , must decide what we want school to do ; and if we can not agree on this we are not entitled to complain that schools , and teachers , fail to give us what we want , nor can we hope to find ways to improve the situation . |
| 17 | It focuses on the manager helping the individual to find ways to improve in the future . |
| 18 | But the paper must be dealt with and you need to find ways to master it , before it masters you . |
| 19 | We must persuade industry not merely to give away their tax- deductible loot as a sop to worthy environmental causes and charities but actually to find ways of integrating environmental capital into their accounts , as part of their business — a kind of natural account — a problem we are researching at the moment . |
| 20 | It is our human duty and pleasure to understand the locust as a locust but we are equally morally compelled to find ways to control their self-destructive rampages . |
| 21 | Sainsbury 's works with suppliers to find ways of reducing the use of pesticides to a minimum . |
| 22 | Doctors are also trying to find ways to make people with HC better and everyone hopes they will . |
| 23 | Over the next 20 years scientists tried , mostly by trial and error , to find ways of ordering the possibilities so that the benefits of ‘ refutation screening ’ could be achieved . |
| 24 | They will need to find ways of shedding the accumulated pounds . |
| 25 | It it 's to be expanded beyond that , we need to find ways of storing power produced on blowy days to use when it 's calm . |
| 26 | The favoured solution is therefore to find ways of slowing cars to speeds at which the short sight-lines are not a danger to children . |
| 27 | Hailey 's chief preoccupations , then , were to find ways of keeping educated Africans ( of whose mental capacities he took , incidentally , a dim view ) from making a successful bid for power at the centre of the colonial system , and to see that there was no unconsidered rush to reform at the level of the localities . |
| 28 | While there have been a few , if any , import restrictions on EC goods coming into this country , our community partners have astutely managed to find ways to restrict the flow of British goods into theirs . |
| 29 | ‘ The prince has been forging contacts , and speaking to industrialists and politicians to find ways of helping conserve the city . |
| 30 | It is just that I am trying to find ways of helping him through the first bad spell of his career . |