Example sentences of "way [prep] [v-ing] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 For instance , they discovered how useful honey was in the treatment of wounds and it was thanks to people 's participation that the best ways of applying it to particular kinds of wounds were developed .
2 There are different ways of doing it with different people erm who do share it .
3 The results are pleasing to both hand and eye and seem to be a satisfying way of leaving something of lasting beauty and worth to posterity .
4 But classifying animals and plants , living and fossil , is more than just an attempt to find a convenient way of slotting them into different categories , like stamps in a stamp album , for neatness and convenience .
5 Secondly , having collated this information , they must find a way of translating it into actual literature .
6 She had a way of shaping them into round balls , raising her arms in a wide , swinging movement and hurling them straight at Elizabeth .
7 our society has become so complicated and our representative system of government so remote to many fellow citizens , that there has to be an alternative way of expressing dissent other than the constitutional way of doing it through representative government .
8 The men and women of the past saw the same physical universe that we did , but their way of seeing it was quite different ; their way of describing it in written form more different still .
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