Example sentences of "way [prep] [verb] on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Participating firms have the services of a consultant for between one and four hours , they receive a summary of his findings , a copy of the complete study and a return visit when he advises on ways of acting on the results of his findings . ’ |
| 2 | And it was as crime stories , mystery puzzles , that he chose to embody his way of commenting on the follies of mankind . |
| 3 | But certain words , like certain tunes , have a way of floating on the top of the mind , ready to jet out of the smallest leak in the sensibility . |
| 4 | Not only is it a way of cheating on the partner , and likely to hurt at least one of the three people involved , but it causes damage that goes deep . |
| 5 | For Saussure this was perhaps mainly a methodological convenience , a way of concentrating on the aspects of language that interested him . |
| 6 | Above all , there is no easy way of checking on the honesty of an interviewer who might , at worst , sit comfortably at home inventing questionnaire responses . |
| 7 | Was this a way of working on the quality of the strings ? |
| 8 | They have a curious way of sitting on the back seat , unfamiliar with the correct posture . |
| 9 | Well , you can probably go some of the way by concentrating on the humanity of the policemen you need to portray . |