Example sentences of "as a way " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | They knew the realist option but did not take it as a way out of a social impasse , because , I would argue , the phenomenalist tendency of thought is too strong . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | No sooner had the announcement been made than it was withdrawn , pending deliberations by Lincolnshire County Council as to whether subsidisation could be considered as a way of continuance . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She said that ‘ vicious adherence to market forces ’ as a way of reducing the fleet would drive out the youngest and the best . |
| 7 | ‘ Equally I believe that you should stop using smacking as a way of punishing a child when that child is big enough to hit you back — and that 's at quite an early age . |
| 8 | On the Continent , governments have actively encouraged the use of diesel-powered vehicles as a way of stretching resources . |
| 9 | Trowark joined his father Jelbert and brother Jago on the fishing boats of Newlyn and in time learnt to knit — a craft popular among fishermen of the day as a way of passing time on long voyages . |
| 10 | Mr Montagu and Mr Brown believe getting staff not to fear the agency process as a bringer of cuts or worse conditions , but as a way of improving both and service to the customer , is the crucial task facing ministers and senior officials between now and spring 1991 . |
| 11 | In his defence of Rushdie 's right to publish , Mr Torode argues we should be allowed to ‘ shock and insult and to ridicule as a way of testing the faith of our forefathers ’ . |
| 12 | He said that a number of vice-chancellors see the fees scheme as a way of getting the Government off the universities ' backs , giving them freedom from detailed control . |
| 13 | He regards it as a way forward for the museum and a means of providing a window for many more people on Britain 's scientific and technological expertise . |
| 14 | Although it is a means of asserting authority , coming as it does at the start of the shift , parade is very relaxed and , from the point of view of the ordinary constables , serves as a way of casually reorientating themselves to the demands of work . |
| 15 | The attempt to achieve a national core curriculum , while widely supported as a way of improving literacy and numeracy amongst schoolchildren , was also feared as yet another turn in the ratchet of state control over local experimentation . |
| 16 | The following remark of Dennis Altman 's , even if not strictly correct historically , rightly implies how the negation of desire and the negation of difference are in practice often inseparable : ‘ the original purpose of the categorization of homosexuals as people apart was to project the homosexuality in everyone onto a defined minority as a way of externalizing forbidden desires and reassuring the majority that homosexuality is something that happens to other people ’ ( Homosexualization , 72 ) . |
| 17 | The idea is that the person turns homosexual as a way of avoiding competition , conflict , or tension with a significant other . |
| 18 | I think Malcolm saw it as a way of getting himself established , starting a shop and making a reputation . |
| 19 | In 1943–4 , the British attempted to devise a Commonwealth approach to civil aviation policy as a way of countering US influence . |
| 20 | The major economic argument for the area was as a way of expanding the zone of multilateral trade in the short run , and as a source of ‘ highly beneficial trading and banking relations ’ . |
| 21 | This seldom adds up to a coherent investment plan , but may be more simply described as a way of keeping things going until better days arrive . |
| 22 | Rose 's coming to the house had smoothed their lives and allowed them to concentrate everything on school and study , which , above all , they saw as a way out of the house and into a life of their own . |
| 23 | Football was used as a way of encouraging working people to buy or hire televisions in the 1950s with the slogan ‘ When they are talking about the big match on TV will you have to remain silent ? ’ |
| 24 | All this is combined with the resentment of ethnic minorities by those who see football as a way of reasserting their national pride . |
| 25 | This is not to say that a don must affect mannerisms or artificial eccentricities as a way of keeping his distance from the pupil — though many have done this . |
| 26 | One of his early projects was a film version of John Galsworthy 's Escape ( 1930 ) , which he proposed to the writer as a way to enable theatre to ‘ regain influence ’ over the screen . |
| 27 | The same actor , Tom Courtenay , plays the Borstal boy in Tony Richardson 's The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner ( 1962 ) who loses the race he 's trained for as a way to spite the governor . |
| 28 | Davis did n't think much of the ‘ kitchen sink ’ films , and asserted that a realistic minimum budget for a first feature was in the order of £250,000 as a way to justify his blocking their exhibition on his company 's circuit . |
| 29 | No one watching the French reaction to the unfolding events in central Europe should doubt the political importance which the Elysee attaches to monetary union as a way of anchoring west Germany to this end of the Continent . |
| 30 | He sees the decision to fully integrate the women 's arm into the organisation as a way of boosting membership . |