Example sentences of "[vb infin] a way [prep] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he discovered a new rule he would immediately seek a way of breaking it , and I had assumed that he would have some sympathy with those who flouted the laws against drugs , yet there was no denying the genuine anger in his voice when he talked of cocaine . |
| 2 | No one can guarantee a way of avoiding heart disease but the risks can be greatly reduced . |
| 3 | At first I could n't see a way of getting to the bus station at two o'clock in the afternoon because we were never free at that time , but my chance came quite unexpectedly . |
| 4 | There should also be more investment in counselling for unwillingly pregnant women , more support for the lone mother who would keep her pregnancy if she could see a way of coping , and fewer politicians using our bodies as debating points to be scored over opponents . |
| 5 | Yes well it 's possible that er Alan may see a way to using that but he is quite ni , I mean he he 's got no doubts he wants to come to me he 's in a divorce at the moment and the moment that the final papers are signed , he 's got to get out of the house he has to stay there till the last minute and then the moment that the papers are signed , he must go . |
| 6 | Director Alvin Rakoff had problems with Crawford when it came to a crucial , very dramatic scene that he shared with Donald Pleasence , who was playing the police officer who could see a way to nailing the crook whom he had been trying to get for twenty years through his son . |
| 7 | If we can not envisage a way of ending the fighting in Ulster , we can not apply our solutions to other countries ’ he said . |
| 8 | Whether they are filtered or not , expanding dictionary definitions may provide a way of accessing semantic relations that are not accessible at the first level . |
| 9 | Little is known about the causes of the problem , though a new study of receptors on blood platelets has suggested a possible mechanism , and could provide a way of predicting those women who will suffer postnatal depression . |
| 10 | The analytical technique , which has been devised by A. Burmester of the Technical University of Berlin , may also provide a way of identifying repairs and additions to lacquered objects . |
| 11 | Us real fans should try and devise a way of flushing them out : - ) . |
| 12 | A fortune awaits any engineer who can devise a way of transferring , in real time , a sequence of animation direct from a computer 's memory to video tape or film . |
| 13 | So , if you want to remember something , you must devise a way of making it interesting . |
| 14 | It may well be that such an approach is incommensurate with the difficulties presented by international disagreements and internal conflicts but it does suggest a way of looking at law which enhances its potential as an instrument for peace . |
| 15 | I have always believed — I make no apology for it — that any system of financing local government must contain a way of making the local authorities more accountable to those who live within the local area . |
| 16 | If any genes of an organism , such as a human , could discover a way of spreading themselves that did not depend on the conventional sperm of egg route , they would take it and be less cooperative . |
| 17 | But speculative source-study can reveal more about the reading of the scholar than about the actual text whose possible sources are the object of the exercise and , after all , it is only to be expected that those who share a faith will also share a way of expressing it . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , On Time is definitely worth reading seriously , because it may indicate a way of thinking that does not totally exclude the question of meaning , not only from the studies of phenomena of the kind discussed here , but also from all sorts of other studies , in such diverse fields as biology , psychology , and human relationships . |
| 19 | And I have been years on Bold injections and all the rest of it , and I know from experience you get , you deal with it , it does n't cure the disease but can you see you have a way of dealing with it , of coping with it , of helping yourself er c er do things and therefore you can |
| 20 | We do n't have , we do n't have a way of identifying reports and getting them fixed . |
| 21 | The increased qualified majority voting in the Council of Ministers , to which we have agreed in the treaty , means that we must have a way of keeping our national Parliaments better informed than they are at present . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , the family did cushion the blow of job loss for some women and their domestic role did offer a way of making sense of their experience . |
| 23 | Of course you can not teach confidence but you can teach a way of acquiring it . |
| 24 | So if they can find a way at working with one another and realizing that this is their life ! |
| 25 | If we can find a way of sending a parcel , we must do so . |
| 26 | They 've built a model of the Venetian coast to help them find a way of saving the historic Italian city from potential disaster . |
| 27 | If Gloucestershire wants to stay within Government spending limits the council must find a way of saving sixteen million pounds — or risk being charge capped . |
| 28 | Cancer was diagnosed only eight months earlier , and Madeleine held a strong conviction she could find a way of helping in her own healing . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'll find a way of passing the time . ’ |
| 30 | Some , who may be kinder , will find a way of weeping in their wives ' arms without explaining the cause . |