Example sentences of "method of [verb] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 This article , the first of a two-part series , examines the available methods of using advance corporation tax ( ACT ) .
2 The police resisted the temptation to abandon by now traditional methods of using ordinary foot police without special equipment to maintain order in such places as Grosvenor Square where in 1968 tens of thousands of protesters sought to lay siege to the U.S. Embassy .
3 Mediaeval herbals contain references to lavender water and many methods of using essential oils , even though some of the moralists and religious leaders regarded the practice as frivolous and even immoral .
4 Precise details of what has been achieved by the liaison remain a closely guarded secret but it has involved developing new methods of using medicinal drugs in the body and has already led to a contract with a major pharmaceutical company .
5 Discussion of the phrase at the Hague is something of a hardy perennial , because of the evident fascination of different methods of categorising legal rules , and the issue arises in the context of the taking of evidence abroad as well as in the present context .
6 The planners ' internal methods of handling personal and departmental information seem , generally , to be rather rudimentary .
7 Other people 's methods of handling those problems , or any others they may have , for that matter , are of no interest to me whatever .
8 further , teenagers learn methods of handling social relationships by observing and imitating peers .
9 To enable the reader to gain a good understanding of these methods of implementing monetary policy , we also outline the main functions of the more important financial institutions in the United Kingdom .
10 The Bank uses two main methods of issuing gilt-edged stock :
11 The methods of issuing new sterling bonds in the domestic market , whether for UK borrowers or for foreign borrowers , are broadly the same as those for new issues of equity shares .
12 There are various methods of training these and they can provide as much fruit as larger trees in a much shorter time .
13 I was very interested to learn more about Barclays ' methods of training these days and to get your views on the materials supplied , particularly videos .
14 However , it is not suggested , pace Fuller , that the internal morality of law is inherent in the most efficient methods of subjecting human conduct to the governance of rules , although there is more strength than has been generally granted in the view that government can only be compatible with the dignity of man if Fuller 's eight requirements for making law are satisfied ( Nicholson , 1973–4 ) .
15 What is required here are rules which courts can use to distinguish between legal and illegal armed conflicts , and between legal and illegal methods of conducting legal armed conflicts .
16 Methods of funding such developments include an agreed allocation of mortgage funds to a particular scheme , or the " financing of a proportion of land and development costs on the understanding that the developer will market that society 's services to prospective purchasers .
17 He returned to the School in December 1945 and was appointed Head of Department in 1952 on the death of Mr. Paine , with whom he had pioneered oral methods of teaching French back in the 1930s .
18 In it , Unix International is expected outline specifications or requirements for methods of standardising graphical user interfaces ( GUI ) , as well the implementation of multi-media technologies and installation procedures .
19 The regular patterns of sound change discovered by Grimm for German were now investigated and specified more closely , methods of reconstructing earlier unwritten forms of words and constructing models of linguistic ‘ family trees ’ were established , other models of evolutionary change ( like Schmidt 's ‘ wave-theory ’ ) were suggested and the use of analogy — especially grammatical analogy — were developed ; for philology was nothing if not comparative .
20 The Fellowship , organised by the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings ( SPAB ) , is a six-month training programme during which the craftsmen travel thousands of miles round the country together , studying traditional methods of repairing historic buildings .
21 Despite many ingenious methods of providing transcendental excitement , the TOM only came into its own in the mid twenty-second century .
22 Older methods of producing duplicated material can be defective in this regard .
23 Thermosensitive processes ( the sensitivity of court-noué to heat treatment has been known since 1921 ) together with clonal selection are the primary methods of producing so-called ‘ virus-free ’ vinestocks .
24 All methods of borrowing open to individuals may be used by a company with the additional method of issuing a debenture .
25 Describe briefly the following methods of despatching outward mail :
26 Yes , that 's right , you 've got because the , the market for er , any one say manufactured goods , in theory could be a , a world market now because there are relatively cheap methods of transporting this er , this particular good .
27 I , I 'm always reluctant to put down specific methods of writing new procedures , or who 's responsible for it , or where it 's got to be done because it depends entirely on what it 's about .
28 An exhaustive investigation into better methods of financing young entrants is continuing .
29 Some aspects of the methods of containing local government expenditure introduced by the Conservative governments in the early 1980s have been left for the later chapter on intergovernmental relations .
30 ( a ) HEADINGS AND SUB-DIVISIONS-are the most fundamental methods of structuring historical information .
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