Example sentences of "[pron] way of [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The situation basically is that I am confident I can come to accommodation with Norfolk from my way of thinking as the neighbouring Highway Authority , those the people we 've got to er to make certain are on site , I 'm sure , I 'm confident enough to do that . |
| 2 | Could my investiture of Mr Broadhurst with such sinister and wide-ranging powers have been my way of dealing with the chronic lack of a proper role model ? |
| 3 | It could easily be nothing more than my way of coping with the consequences of a senseless accident . |
| 4 | Their way of looking at the exterior world , the means they used of recording their ideas about it , even their concept of what a painting was , all these things were different from anything that had gone before them . |
| 5 | That 's their way of paying for the medicine . |
| 6 | Although the government changed its way of profiting from the sale of drink mainly for negative reasons — to stave off rural unrest and reduce under-the-counter payments to civil servants — the abolition of the vodka farm looked like a victory for the common man . |
| 7 | In a volume commemorating Darwin 's death , I have tried to show how his way of looking at the behaviour of individual plants in nature can be extended . |
| 8 | And it was as crime stories , mystery puzzles , that he chose to embody his way of commenting on the follies of mankind . |
| 9 | Charles enjoyed the time he spent with his wife and children , but the events of the last four years had been no less momentous for him , and his way of coping with the stress and tensions in his life had always been by testing himself physically . |
| 10 | Professor John Vincent in a long assessment of Gladstone observes " He was appalled by frivolity , and frivolity was appalled by him … " something in the tone of his voice and his way of coming into the room that is not aristocratic . |
| 11 | coming round to our way of thinking regarding the capabilities of the respective forces . |