| She knows that she must not run and yet, desperate as she is, cannot contrive an escape plan. |
| The real miracle, though, is that you could contrive a way to have a food crisis. |
| The Executive's advertising campaigns contrive to be both insulting and ineffectual. |
| So in Kenya the British managed to contrive a land system similar to the clearances in Britain. |
| It was common practice for provincial clockmakers to contrive a skeleton clock as a window display. |
| And truly the point is not to contrive a precise plan or even to pass a plan that does all of the above. |
