Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] [pron] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | There has been an assumption that young visually impaired children have little or no ability to use tactile maps to find their way around , and it has been argued that there is little to be gained from introducing visually impaired children to maps at an early age . |
| 2 | SCOTVEC 's audit criteria , by building on existing good practice in centres , will make it easier for centre personnel to find their way through the maze . |
| 3 | Other searchlights came on , but the German-looking silhouette of Campbeltown and some other confusions of identity enabled the intruders to bluff their way for another five minutes and about 2,000 yards ( 1,800m ) nearer the harbour . |
| 4 | Nearly all the much bigger fruit bats rely on their large eyes to find their way and in consequence , like owls , they can not fly in caves where there is no light whatsoever . |
| 5 | Others were more positive and planned how they might use the waterways to improve their way of life . |
| 6 | For example , it is suggested that : " The rooms should be grouped in a simple manner , easy for patients and visitors to find their way around ; the whole building should be on one level and should look as far as is possible both externally and internally like a house not a hospital : there should be a clearly defined main entry/exit point for patients , staff , visitors and supplies which should have a ramped approach and in which the main door should be lockable : WC and washing compartment should be shared between pairs of single bed rooms and should be readily accessible to the sitting and dining rooms ; the bathroom should be readily accessible to both day and night areas ; the WC and the bathroom should be equipped for wheelchairs and standing users : the sitting and dining rooms and the external enclosure should be accessible by wheelchair : rooms should be differentiated in colour and finish while remaining domestic in scale and character : an informal , welcoming and comfortable reception/waiting area is required at the entrance to provide shelter and waiting spaces for visitors : the area between main entrance and sub-section entrances is likely to be an extensive area of circulation and will be the hub of the building but it could also be , spaciously , rather than an enlarged corridor , a positive amenity and focus if designed as a conservatory , for example , to contain plants or even birds and fish providing a stimulus to patients ' visitors and staff , and , finally : the safe external enclosure ( to which I referred earlier , ) should take the form of a walled garden matching the materials of parent buildings , suitably softened with appropriate planting . |
| 7 | Beyond this , the minor offices of rector in Croxton , Cambridgeshire , and chanter at Lincoln Cathedral were the only posts to come his way . |
| 8 | One is that animals memorize local landmarks and directions on their way out , and simply reverse the directions to find their way home ; a second is that the home site itself has some property that can be recognized at a distance . |
| 9 | Lashley taught laboratory rats to find their way through a maze to a reward box . |
| 10 | My position is that the law is so constructed that in all probability , only the lucid , self-assertive patient who has a sympathetic , understanding doctor is able in most circumstances to have his way and be left alone , free from further interference , to die . |
| 11 | It took us eight very wet and almost windless days to inch our way up the ninety miles of the Bouton Straits before we could turn eastwards into the Banda Sea . |
| 12 | A more fundamental change has come from studying how animals orient themselves not in a simple environment but in a structurally complex one ; for example , how they use landmarks to find their way home . |
| 13 | In Washington , US Administration officials said the soldiers — members of the elite Green Berets — feared the rebels had left booby traps behind and waited for Salvadorean troops to work their way to the sixth floor , on which the soldiers were trapped . |
| 14 | It took me about ten days to work my way into it , after that I found it very acceptable . |
| 15 | I have learnt over the years to talk your way , behave your way , and even to think and feel your way . |
| 16 | Nicol , since the disastrous encounter near Ullesthorpe , had had five days to make his way lamely across country to reach Sub-Prior Herluin and make his report . |
| 17 | He made his first stage appearance as an actor at Wigan in The King of Terrors in 1900 , taking fourteen more years to make his way into the West End , where he arrived at the Empire Theatre in October 1914 in By Jingo If We Do . |
| 18 | If you 're really rocking and rolling in the art department and you 're allowing some of the experiments to see their way into print , even if they 're not so , they do n't have that slick veneer that people seem to want in the marketing department , progress results and the rawness helps and the thing that makes Jack Stoffagers pages so wonderful is that they are unfiltered , you have the feeling that it 's the printer talking to you , determining something that he 's read , you know , he wants you to read . |
| 19 | Carrying torches to light their way , they all reached the shore safely , but to their dismay found the wind still unfavourable , and the sea too rough to allow them to get away . |
| 20 | Some animals appear to have a highly developed magnetic sense and use magnetic variations to find their way around . |
| 21 | The first ‘ Aspects ’ discs to come my way encompass a wide musical spectrum . |
| 22 | Mars expect their customers to chomp their way through more than a billion bars this year , worth about £90m . |
| 23 | It is unwise for mothers to be too ideologically sound in matter of diet — it makes it so easy for rivals to the children 's hearts to worm their way therein , and win . |
| 24 | I did n't know what had been the last meal eaten before leaving South America but it took me twenty minutes to coathanger my way through it , and consequently I had missed breakfast . |
| 25 | Indeed the ability of the newcomers to find their way around the local political system has often prompted the improvement of other rural amenities , albeit on a highly selective basis . |
| 26 | There was not a man present who had not stepped over bodies of rivals to claw his way to his present position . |
| 27 | If you survive it 's on to Nordic times to battle your way to Asgard ( are you getting on this ? |
| 28 | ( Mar 21-Apr 20 ) The situation in the heavens is rather complex , if not explosive , at the moment and you really can not expect any favours to come your way either at home or on the work front . |
| 29 | I do not think that any member of the United Nations , any more than Her Majesty 's Government , would want to send their forces to fight their way into the situation . |
| 30 | Initially , the great masses of floating pumice which had piled up on the sea made it difficult for ships to force their way through the water — rafts three metres thick were reported in places — but eventually parties were able to reach the islands and determine what changes had taken place . |