Example sentences of "way [prep] [verb] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although 618 remained a prototype , it paved the way for rebuilding the remaining railcoaches as one-man cars , including this one as OMO car 13. ( left ) |
| 2 | There is another way of achieving the same ends but with your favourite programs as opposed to those from a single publisher , and that involves the use of a ‘ manager ’ such as Caxton 's Memory Shift which lets , say , Wordstar , dBase and Multiplan , all co-exist in RAM . |
| 3 | Irony is at the same time a characteristic form of the contemporary imagination and a way of thinking the specific forms of engagement which the distractions of the everyday and the interruptions of its temporality might facilitate in television viewing . |
| 4 | An effective way of calculating the additional costs relating to plant and labour , which can usually be treated together , is to identify an undisrupted part of the project . |
| 5 | It was predictable that the onerousness of the rating task held down response rate somewhat ( 33 per cent of a target population of 200 ) , but less predictably , great suspicion was aroused by the use of multiplication as a way of combining the two components of need for change . |
| 6 | It seems that this is the method of connection that causes the most confusion , and the correct way of connecting the secondary windings is not really the obvious one . |
| 7 | Before the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 came into force , the courts developed , somewhat erratically , the doctrine of " fundamental breach " as a way of curbing the worst excesses of exclusion clauses . |
| 8 | Anyway , ethnicity is one way of filling the empty containers of nationalism . |
| 9 | Though her long musical career has seemed very erratic , the overview provided by Greatest Hits 1965–1992 from I Got You Babe and the brilliant Gypsies , Tramps and Thieves right up to The Shoop Shoop Song — proves she has a great voice and a devilish way of picking the best tunes . |
| 10 | This analogy leads to the ‘ decision tree ’ , a useful way of structuring the multiple problems associated with development projects so that the expected value ( EV ) criterion can be used to help decide which branch to follow . |
| 11 | This analogy leads to the ‘ decision tree ’ , a useful way of structuring the multiple problems associated with development projects so that the expected value ( EV ) criterion can be used to help decide which branch to follow . |
| 12 | One way of defining the middle classes is to try to understand how they kept themselves morally distinct from the lower orders . |
| 13 | One way of summarizing the general points of the previous section is to say that there is a dynamic interplay between reason and non-reason . |
| 14 | So we say " the 1950s " because , as part of an implied group of decades ( the 1940s , the 1960s , etc. ) the 1950s form part of a common way of categorising the passing years . |
| 15 | Road pricing has been up for discussion for some time as a possible way of alleviating the high levels of traffic congestion in many city centres . |
| 16 | The Masai believe that when a woman has sex with a younger man ( in truth I have no way of knowing the relative ages ) the woman becomes younger and more beautiful . |
| 17 | But there is no way of knowing the true numbers — women come and go , depending on their economic circumstances . |
| 18 | In southwest England an early paper by Waters ( 1957 ) demonstrated the significance of differential weathering in oldlands and gave the basis for a new way of regarding the earlier stages of landscape evolution . |
| 19 | The company believes that there is no better way of maintaining the high standards of service than through its investment in existing employees . |
| 20 | If we have a principled way of discerning the stable sub-assemblies , thereby distinguishing them from merely arbitrary collections of parts , then we can as it were see the evolutionary pedigree of a complex structure . |
| 21 | The simplest way of getting the outstanding items on board as cheaply as possible is by means of technology exchange and cross-licensing agreements , and COSE was seen as forum for effecting this . |
| 22 | The simplest way of getting the outstanding items on board as cheaply as possible , is through technology exchange and cross-licensing and COSE was seen as forum for this . |
| 23 | A search is the only way of establishing the necessary particulars . |
| 24 | A further possible way of reconciling the two accounts is to say that both express important elements in kin relations , but each has to be modified with reference to the other . |
| 25 | Every country has its own way of performing the traditional dances which go hand in hand with certain musical characteristics . |
| 26 | One certain way of making the old forms sound ‘ modern ’ was to introduce a greater degree of dissonance and to avoid the euphony of the original conventional harmony . |
| 27 | I have always believed — I make no apology for it — that any system of financing local government must contain a way of making the local authorities more accountable to those who live within the local area . |
| 28 | The Dickens study offered as an alternative to the current system an arbitral system as a way of overcoming the perceived disadvantages of the industrial tribunal system ( Dickens et al. , 1985 , ch. 9 ) . |
| 29 | However , in view of the low toxicity of chromium , when suffering with sugar cravings it may be worth trying chromium supplements as a way of overcoming the sweet cravings . |
| 30 | This proposal is discussed here as a way of illustrating the main principles involved in lessening dependence on means tests , while at the same time extending the idea of social citizenship which stems from the national insurance system . |