Example sentences of "way [prep] [v-ing] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | either erm because redundancies are coming up , or Imperial trustees down , they were just got ridden of as a way of moving them off the trust . |
| 2 | either erm because redundancies are coming or as Imperial Trustees found , they were just got ridden of as a way of moving them off the trust . |
| 3 | After 1870 education for the Poles was seen as a way of bringing them within the German order , of lightening their Slav darkness by opening up to them the world of ‘ civilisation ’ . |
| 4 | For Iranians it was always a political as well as religious creed , and way of differentiating themselves from the Arabs . |
| 5 | The climax of his tale is to profess to excuse Cassio — ‘ But men are men ; the best sometimes forget ’ ( 237 ) — an extremely effective way of indicting him in the eyes of those present . |
| 6 | It is often possible , then , to understand and so overcome spelling errors , once you understand why you are making an error and can work out a way of reminding yourself of the correct form . |
| 7 | All the other times were just a way of reminding myself of the realities and provoking you at the same time . |
| 8 | This is merely another way of reminding you of the technique of repetition examined in the section on Memory . |
| 9 | The problem of evil has exercised people in all three traditions of historical monotheism and nobody has ever been able to find a logical way of reconciling it with the concept of the one God . |
| 10 | In Kingsley 's social novels particularly , the diseases of the poor have a way of transmitting themselves to the other nation by way of their omissions — neglected ponds or the products of tailors ’ sweat-shops . |
| 11 | A good way of familiarising yourself with the principle of intervallic interchange is to set yourself the following task , both on and away from your guitar . |
| 12 | I had had nothing to read for three months , and now that we had some time to ourselves reading was a good way of distracting myself from the immediacies of life around me . |
| 13 | Well I mean I know that twenty percent is twenty pound in a hundred , but what 's a quick way of doing it on the calculator . |
| 14 | ‘ There must be a way of doing it without the costs of a full listing . |
| 15 | Now if you know that somebody is a drug addict and they 've just had an injection you keep away from them , erm if they 're having a bad trip , whatever they call it , because you do n't , they become very violent , they can do a lot of damage , now the only time you will step in and help is when they go unconscious , but at the same time remember protect yourself , we 're talking about needles here and probably shared needles , you must be terribly careful that you do not get pricked by a needle , especially if , they have a habit of sticking needles under lapels , so always be aware of this , if a person is a drug addict , in fact if you can find some easier way of turning them into the recovery position , do so , erm , you can then obviously either call the ambulance . |
| 16 | It 's changed partly because Stalin 's er strategy in China has been shown to be a disaster and Stalin is trying to cover his tracks and most effective way of protecting himself against the criticism and the unpopularity which is likely to come from the failure is by insisting that the strategy was right all along and the revolution is about to triumph . |
| 17 | I laughed , and she said , ‘ Laughing is a way of protecting yourself from the truth . ’ |
| 18 | ONE type of wild potato has developed a novel way of protecting itself from the ravages of aphids — by producing the chemical that aphids themselves use as an alarm signal . |
| 19 | The six fabliaux selected for summarizing here are , if in any way at all , only slightly untypical in being generally longer than average , this being an efficient way of conveying something of the range of what is to be found amongst the French fabliaux . |
| 20 | Scandal came easy to him , it was simply a way of life , a way of raising himself above the ordinariness of his upbringing in Fife . |
| 21 | Yes , he 'd bring Ma to the fête , by way of introducing her to the new life . |
| 22 | Other people avoid having this proof as a way of defending themselves against the reality of the death of the person they love . |
| 23 | The first is a simple logical point that without some model of how the system might work , there is no way of deciding which of the millions of possible stimuli available to use in testing a particular celt . |
| 24 | If indeed he 'd secured the tickets as a way of bribing her between the sheets , then he suffered for his lust . |
| 25 | This section discusses ELT video materials under these headings as a way of relating them to the roles we can give video in the classroom . |
| 26 | Having established the skills aimed at in project work , a possible systematic way of approaching them in the classroom will now be discussed . |
| 27 | To find the benefits of religion , we have to find some way of separating it from the institutions which claim to represent it . |
| 28 | Increasingly they felt German education to be a way of excluding them from the experience of industrial and urban life , from the totality of modernisation . |
| 29 | Despite what may have appeared as the rejuvenation of an all-but-lost career , Solly is still a long way from committing himself to the marathon . |
| 30 | He has carried on the good work this term and is well on the way to establishing himself in the top 10 with 16 wins in the current campaign . |