Example sentences of "way [prep] [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The situation basically is that I am confident I can come to accommodation with Norfolk from my way of thinking as the neighbouring Highway Authority , those the people we 've got to er to make certain are on site , I 'm sure , I 'm confident enough to do that . |
| 2 | Major changes in the way we conceptualize Nature certainly took place at this time , but historians now suspect that the emergence of Darwin 's theory should not be treated as the only watershed dividing the old way of thinking from the new . |
| 3 | Thirdly , the model suggests one way of accounting for the peculiar nature of mathematics , computing and language , as the disciplines which constitute our stances in and towards the world , and for the way they relate to other disciplines , both servicing them at a mundane level and pervading them at a profound level . |
| 4 | Buy BT as a way of plugging into the potential benefits of recovery — such as rising telephone call volumes — without taking undue risks . |
| 5 | He sounded almost like the gentlemen who brought their horses to be shod at Samson 's smithy , except for a slight foreign way of leaning on the wrong part of the words . |
| 6 | Between them , the Waleses have established a way of operating over the last ten years that is unmistakably their own ; and quite unlike any other branch of the Royal Family . |
| 7 | Social activities Provided that they do not stop you going to bed at the proper time , social activities are a very good way of adjusting to the new time zone , particularly if they enable you to spend time out-of-doors in natural daylight at the times recommended in Table 11.2 . |
| 8 | This has also been a way of escaping from the serious clashes which historically have taken place between different Christian groups involved in education and which remain a distinct possibility in the multi-faith situation . |
| 9 | I do n't think anybody can agree , there is , there is perhaps a better way of looking at the current formula , but I 'm just a little bit concerned having read this report and seen the purpose , about the way that er , the A C C are , are pressing for the |
| 10 | Figure 4.1 suggests one way of looking at the emerging relationships . |
| 11 | In the quantum mechanical way of looking at the gravitational field , the force between two matter particles is pictured as being carried by a particle of spin 2 called the graviton . |
| 12 | Their way of looking at the exterior world , the means they used of recording their ideas about it , even their concept of what a painting was , all these things were different from anything that had gone before them . |
| 13 | ANOTHER way of looking at the magnetic quantisation of Figure 3 is shown in the energy band diagram ( a ) . |
| 14 | In our near-sighted way of looking at the stratigraphical column , we tend to forget that these recent events , if considered on the normal geological time-scale , were virtually instantaneous and certainly catastrophic . |
| 15 | They must have done some good ( Cipolla points out that their principles were the same as those of the great 19th-century sanitary reformers such as Sir Edwin Chadwick ) , and yet there seems to be no way of telling from the surviving evidence whether lives were saved as a result . |
| 16 | If she remembered he was the same man whom her son had once employed , there was no way of telling from the awed reception she gave him . |
| 17 | Rejecting the QALY calculation , Harris suggests that since there is no rational way of choosing between the two people the way closest to being just is to choose randomly . |
| 18 | This is not necessarily the best way of passing on the good news , but it does stir the passers-by to find not the paid priests but the cobbler , the miner , the man who sells meat fritters telling them about Jesus . |
| 19 | ‘ Every Jewish king of the House of David was known as Messiah , or Christ , and a regular way of referring to the High Priest was ‘ the Priest Messiah ’ … ’ |
| 20 | The Rhine , Elbe and Moselle are Germany 's three greatest rivers , and a luxury cruise on any one of them is probably the best way of taking in the superb scenery , fascinating cities , exciting excursions and plenty of jolly good food ! |
| 21 | Even worse , some think public relations stands in the way of getting at the real facts . |
| 22 | To drive from Lascaux of the prehistoric caves in the Dordogne right across country to Valence on the Rhone is possibly not the most expeditious way of getting from the deep south-west of France to the Mediterranean . |
| 23 | One argument for common investment funds is that at the moment they provide a way of getting round the narrow and wider investment bands that dictate charity investment . |
| 24 | This , I think , is an illuminating way of pointing to the prototypical role of sensations , accompanying as they do ( but not constituting ) our developed language-games such as those of pain or memory . |
| 25 | Mr Carswell said : ‘ We can not see any more economic way of dealing with the serious problem . ’ |
| 26 | Could my investiture of Mr Broadhurst with such sinister and wide-ranging powers have been my way of dealing with the chronic lack of a proper role model ? |
| 27 | On a more general level it is possible to say that since painting is in any case an art of illusion , in so far as it conveys sensations of volume and depth on a two-dimensional surface , it was easier for the Cubists to break with traditional conventions , to push the ‘ illusion ’ one step further , and to invent a new pictorial language , than it was to find a new way of dealing with the solid , tangible forms themselves . |
| 28 | ‘ Disciplining teenagers calls for discussion , reason , explanation and an agreed way of dealing with the troubled situation for the benefit of all . ’ |
| 29 | The only effective way of dealing with the constitutional questions is to ask the group of people who will be most affected by changes , both within Europe and Scotland . |
| 30 | This applies , presumably , to the case where one misfortune sets in train a whole sequence of further misfortunes , each confirming the child 's expectation of what life has to offer him and each giving him further reason to adopt whatever behaviour — flight from reality , antisocial tendencies , and so forth — he used as a way of dealing with the original situation . |