Example sentences of "way [prep] [v-ing] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The results are pleasing to both hand and eye and seem to be a satisfying way of leaving something of lasting beauty and worth to posterity . |
| 2 | But classifying animals and plants , living and fossil , is more than just an attempt to find a convenient way of slotting them into different categories , like stamps in a stamp album , for neatness and convenience . |
| 3 | Thus we agreed a way of phasing it in that reduced the cost of introduction but provided no disruption for those nearest retirement . |
| 4 | The story is told through the eyes of the crews who man the engines and it is an interesting way of conducting you over one of Britain 's most interesting and picturesque routes . |
| 5 | There 's no mathematical way of defining it at that point . |
| 6 | If a new demand is short-lived , it may be possible to find a way of meeting it without any overall loss of performance . |
| 7 | Secondly , having collated this information , they must find a way of translating it into actual literature . |
| 8 | Manchester Computing Centre is used to coping with multi-volume files , but a further problem arose when the file was too large to fit onto one of our backup cartridges ; as no one had ever needed to copy a file that large on to cartridge before , we had to devise a way of splitting it between two cartridges . |
| 9 | She had a way of shaping them into round balls , raising her arms in a wide , swinging movement and hurling them straight at Elizabeth . |
| 10 | And in that case the only way of identifying them with any accuracy is to hear them spoken and to witness the non-verbal behaviour with which they are preceded , accompanied or followed . |
| 11 | our society has become so complicated and our representative system of government so remote to many fellow citizens , that there has to be an alternative way of expressing dissent other than the constitutional way of doing it through representative government . |
| 12 | During the 1980s , the British tended to buy bigger , high fuel-consumption cars , so increased taxes on petrol ( favoured by Patten ) would be an obvious way of driving them towards smaller , more economical cars with fewer noxious emissions . |
| 13 | We know that in these cases we often do face a real choice of evils and we have to find some way of deciding which of these evils is the worst . |
| 14 | His father had a way of losing himself in some private absorption , of not hearing when people spoke to him , and then of apologizing concernedly . |
| 15 | The men and women of the past saw the same physical universe that we did , but their way of seeing it was quite different ; their way of describing it in written form more different still . |
| 16 | ‘ Revenge ’ is well on the way to taking us to that point where we want to be , ’ explained the one-time axe-wielding , fire-breathing bassman . |
| 17 | Erm , now , the the third thing was about the training program , just to reiterate where we are on this , that if a request is made for personal development training in the current year , if you remember we , if we identify training needs that that we as management identify , that people need in order to do there present job , and then that takes absolute priority and we should get on and do those , but we get a large number of requests where people erm are , saying that they like to do things which they do n't need to do , but which they think will better equip them , and if they 're , if we 're getting any new requests this year with an expectation that further expenditure will be sought in the next financial year , that 's ninety four , five , then that request will be refused , in other words we ca , we do not see our way to committing ourselves to any |