Example sentences of "[verb] a way [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he discovered a new rule he would immediately seek a way of breaking it , and I had assumed that he would have some sympathy with those who flouted the laws against drugs , yet there was no denying the genuine anger in his voice when he talked of cocaine . |
| 2 | The society provided a way for the town 's art-lovers to assemble monthly for discussions , lectures , and demonstrations . |
| 3 | The objectives in Parts 1 and 2 provided a way of thinking about behavioural problems and a set of general methods for dealing with these problems . |
| 4 | It also indicated the slave trade as a peculiarly appropriate object upon which many evangelicals could exercise their benevolence since it constituted a burden of individual and national guilt and in its international character provided a way of extending and giving reality to the notion of mankind as a family . |
| 5 | This model provided a way of visualizing the pattern of morphogenetic systems over the earth 's surface during the Cainozoic and so lent itself to a clear way of integrating contemporary world zones with those of the past when ice sheets were non-existent or much less extensive . |
| 6 | 17.9 Even so , the various features characteristically associated with casual conversation and with formal writing provide a way of organising programmes of study . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | By concentrating on the kind of search space produced during lexical access , we provide a way of analysing the interactions between these sources of complexity . |
| 9 | They provide a way for a testator to secure some of the dispositions in his will even if the will fails and intestate succession ensues . |
| 10 | They provide a way for Topic Criteria and more general processes to be assessed in context . |
| 11 | None the less , the concepts are powerful and provide a way into understanding the more detailed managerial explanations that follow later . |
| 12 | Satellite communications provide a way round this , and now Iridium Inc — a company founded recently by a consortium of companies including Motorola Inc — is to place a constellation of 66 satellites around the earth , costing $3,000m , for a commercial service that is expected to span the globe by 1998 . |
| 13 | Satellite communications provide a way round this , and now Iridium Inc — a company founded recently by a consortium of companies including Motorola Inc — is to place a constellation of 66 satellites around the earth , costing $3bn , for a commercial service that is expected to span the globe by 1998 . |
| 14 | But classroom practice is not put at the service of the principles , designed to test them out ; conversely , the principles serve classroom practices in that they provide a way in which they may be more clearly understood and more systematically carried out . |
| 15 | They provide a way in which the student can cover up his true self by finding a vocabulary acceptable to most people and a set of facts which are generally known among people generally considered to be generally educated . |
| 16 | For some Protestant thinkers , experimental science promised a way of reversing the effects of the original curse , a way of making a better world that might in some small way mirror the perfection of God 's heavenly kingdom , a way of restoring the world to a condition fit for Christ 's earthly rule . |
| 17 | The goal is to save money and recapture a way of life . |
| 18 | But I believe it might be possible to get the universities and polytechnics in future to accept a way of selecting candidates that was radically different from either A levels alone , or A and AS levels . |
| 19 | Wolff originally described a way of learning CFGs . |
| 20 | dissertation the young Prince Louis de Broglie proposed a way in which waves might be associated with objects like electrons which had hitherto been thought of in purely particle terms ( see Appendix , A2 ) . |
| 21 | Either way , the main intention will be to establish a way of working , and to begin assessing students ' voice and movement abilities . |
| 22 | ‘ In part , I think it was that Brian Eyre and I managed to establish a way of working together so that the potential for internal conflict was minimised . |
| 23 | Salim is an Aeneas who makes it to London , where those of his blood are founding a way of life , and he has his Dido both in Yvette and in Metty . |
| 24 | Let herself go a bit — ye get that with women whose men are giving them a hard time , and who hav'na found a way of getting their retaliation in first . ’ |
| 25 | Actually Jacobi 's work went rather further than that , for he also found a way of calculating the number of expressions as sums of at most six or eight squares . |
| 26 | So she schemed until she found a way of having the second thing without losing the first . |
| 27 | In that year the German chemist Friedrich Wohler ( 1800–92 ) found a way of producing from inorganic materials the chemical urea ; always beforehand this had been assumed to be a substance that could be produced only by bodily ( biochemical ) reactions . |
| 28 | One branch of the molluscs , very early in the group 's history , found a way of becoming highly mobile and yet retaining the protection of a large and heavy shell — they developed gas-filled flotation tanks . |
| 29 | When Timothy Amsterdam returned from Europe he soon found a way of meeting Topaz on the Moor . |
| 30 | For instance , after extensive consultation with the community , health workers found a way of overcoming people 's reluctance to use rehydration salts . |