Example sentences of "a way of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secondly , the formal analysis which is second nature to a Western critic can be fruitful , even though it could be argued that this is a way of interpreting the objects of an unfamiliar culture rather than a description . |
| 2 | Salim is an Aeneas who makes it to London , where those of his blood are founding a way of life , and he has his Dido both in Yvette and in Metty . |
| 3 | Klima 's first loves have a way of not working out ; and what may have been his longest affair is the one about which least is said . |
| 4 | Thinking about women is a way of avoiding the thought of death — and yet women may be the end of you . |
| 5 | Either way , the main intention will be to establish a way of working , and to begin assessing students ' voice and movement abilities . |
| 6 | In drama schools , improvisation is about finding a way of expanding the imagination and liberating the senses , which can get too confined if students work entirely from a text all the time . |
| 7 | New actors need to try and widen their range all the time and in the same breath find a way of being commercially as well as artistically viable . |
| 8 | Of course you can not teach confidence but you can teach a way of acquiring it . |
| 9 | Our civilization has at least this to its credit , he wrote , that it has found a way of rounding up this dishonest crap and incarcerating it in morgues , in fortified places with guards and alarm bells and the rest , thus keeping it off the streets , protecting decent citizens , and now , he wrote , there are even moves afoot to repel intruders by making them pay hard cash to enter these fortified places . |
| 10 | Had to satisfy that desire , he wrote , yet find a way of doing so that would not have that physical effect on me . |
| 11 | Find a way of allowing each viewer to make his own impact on the glass , he wrote , to indicate that viewing is not a neutral activity . |
| 12 | A report by the National Economic Development Council ( NEDC ) points to the creation of a bank holiday in October as a way of extending the tourist season into the autumn . |
| 13 | Not neurotic , that , just a way of parcelling out the time , and doing everything I need to . |
| 14 | Michael Tye , in his recent book The Metaphysics of Mind ( Cambridge , 1989 ) , has a way of dealing with the difficulty which , if it worked , would solve the materialist 's problem . |
| 15 | We have a way of talking , and thus a way of thinking , about thoughts as if they were sentences in the head ; and it is worth noting that Fodor ( for example in Psychosemantics ) regards folk psychology as providing a rough but reliable account of mental life and behaviour . |
| 16 | We have a way of talking , and thus a way of thinking , about thoughts as if they were sentences in the head ; and it is worth noting that Fodor ( for example in Psychosemantics ) regards folk psychology as providing a rough but reliable account of mental life and behaviour . |
| 17 | This is a way of thinking derived from Chomsky ( and ultimately from Plato ) , and it is one with which Fodor is quite happy . |
| 18 | If there were simply no correlation whatsoever between the electrical output of a photo-electric cell and some other measure of light intensity directly or indirectly related to experience , it would not have been accepted as a way of measuring light intensity . |
| 19 | Hardening again : ‘ Is n't Jeff a way of getting out ; as well … |
| 20 | Hugh chides us for selling at what he regards as low prices , but he forgets that our hobby not our source of income ; it is a way of relaxing during evenings and weekends when the serious business of earning a living is over . |
| 21 | No sooner had the announcement been made than it was withdrawn , pending deliberations by Lincolnshire County Council as to whether subsidisation could be considered as a way of continuance . |
| 22 | The slippage principle which should , I remarked , enervate but in truth exhilarates , has a way of positioning the reader on the side of the narrative against the narrator . |
| 23 | For Saussure this was perhaps mainly a methodological convenience , a way of concentrating on the aspects of language that interested him . |
| 24 | But before we jump to the conclusion that Pound had simply had a brainstorm , or had been trapped by misplaced compassion for Dunning as a lame duck , we ought to consider another possibility — that imagism , and Pound 's endorsement of Ford 's insistence on ‘ the prose tradition ’ , had never been for him more than an aberration , though in the short term a very profitable one , from a way of feeling that impelled him always toward the cantabile , a proclivity that would , in the interests of melody , tolerate notably eccentric diction . |
| 25 | We may even feel , as certainly I do , that some of the later cantos are of such a nature that it 's hard to conceive in any age of a way of encountering them other than the way we 're here embarked upon . |
| 26 | Essentially , these manoeuvres are a way of managing debt to take advantage of interest rate changes , but the council went way beyond debt management into pure financial speculation . |
| 27 | If being nice to infants is a way of currying favour with females , the benefits ought to be discernible in the way males were treated once the observer females were let loose . |
| 28 | It would erode the precious British freedom , gained at considerable cost over several centuries , to shock and insult and to ridicule as a way of testing the faiths of our forefathers . |
| 29 | The deal was said to enable LTCB to gain information and knowledge in international asset management while providing F&C with a way of entry into the pensions market in Japan . |
| 30 | She said that ‘ vicious adherence to market forces ’ as a way of reducing the fleet would drive out the youngest and the best . |