Example sentences of "way [prep] [verb] for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I must believe in the Apostolic Succession , there being no other way of accounting for the descent of the Bishop of Exeter from Judas Iscariot . ’ |
| 2 | For example , Slobin ( 1973 ) has put forward a number of ‘ operating principles ’ as a way of accounting for the appearance of language forms which suggest this kind of abstract grammatical knowledge . |
| 3 | They had the edge , a way of living for the moment that she envied . |
| 4 | I regard it as a way of living for the future , but what I feel I have learned so far is just the tip of the iceberg . |
| 5 | In some cases , especially among people of higher status , the letter is regarded as a more polite way of asking for the interview and it helps differentiate the interviewer , when he or she calls , from marauding salesmen . |
| 6 | As each subsequent requiem repeated the ritual exhibited at the primary mass , the cycle proved an expensive way of praying for the repose of the dead . |
| 7 | That 's their way of paying for the medicine . |
| 8 | A final group of approaches see football spectator disorder as a way of compensating for the loss of community caused by post-war industrial and urban development . |
| 9 | To my mind this is an untidy way of working for the shooting man does n't make the effort to dig his ferrets out . |
| 10 | The document before us goes a long way towards providing for the independence of the monetary institution , which will be a crucial element in the success of a single currency . |