Example sentences of "it [vb -s] a [adj] way of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It represents a new way of life in which the behaviour and requirements of the collective body are present at every moment . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ It represents a new way of thinking about the media world we live in and a new way of learning the skills of active engagement and critical reflection with all forms of modern media — television , video , film , radio , print , and the glue that binds them all together — advertising , ’ says Sister Elizabeth Thoman , Executive Director of the Center for Media and Values . |
| 3 | Since any glass can only take a certain amount of fluid it represents an easy way of thinking of our body 's limitations to the amount of stress we can endure . |
| 4 | The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators is completely independent of the Post Office ; it offers a simple way of sorting out disputes using written statements and avoiding the need to make a personal appearance . |
| 5 | It offers a convenient way of sending a number of control characters to the screen . |
| 6 | You will find no happiness , for ultimately life does not allow you to get away with anything , but rather , it has an uncanny way of asking for payment when we least expect it . |
| 7 | It seems a strange way of choosing officials . |
| 8 | If this is true , it seems an expensive way of satisfying one 's curiosity . |
| 9 | Even so , it remains an inefficient way of spending funds , because in considering large numbers of new books on different subjects at the same time selectors find it difficult to judge the quality of individual works in relation to the rest of the subject literature , and difficult to take into account — except in the most superficial way — user demand for the books ' subjects . |
| 10 | This is a bit of a mouthful , but it provides a systematic way of describing relationships as positive or negative ; it reminds us , for example , whether young people are more or less likely to contemplate breaking the law . |
| 11 | This is a common feature of the rational expectations hypothesis and it provides an obvious way of testing the hypothesis , for if on estimating equation ( 3.18 ) we found ‘ widely different ’ coefficients on , widely different estimates of α t , then it would suggest that either equation ( 3.6 ) is untrue or expectations are not formed rationally . |
| 12 | It imparts a fresh way of seeing the familiar . |