Example sentences of "[verb] a way of " 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 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 17.9 Even so , the various features characteristically associated with casual conversation and with formal writing provide a way of organising programmes of study . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The goal is to save money and recapture a way of life . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Wolff originally described a way of learning CFGs . |
| 12 | Either way , the main intention will be to establish a way of working , and to begin assessing students ' voice and movement abilities . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | So she schemed until she found a way of having the second thing without losing the first . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | When Timothy Amsterdam returned from Europe he soon found a way of meeting Topaz on the Moor . |
| 21 | For instance , after extensive consultation with the community , health workers found a way of overcoming people 's reluctance to use rehydration salts . |
| 22 | On their third night she ordered him quite roughly to bring his legs closer together and found a way of rubbing herself against his knee while sucking at his neck that made him shudder . |
| 23 | ‘ I think my subconscious found a way of telling me a bit of what happened , Dr Vaughan . ’ |
| 24 | A lot of these were books written by moralistic females ; books which erm reflected various kinds of Victorian ideas , and much later on when I did some research in Oxford on Victorian literature I found a way of putting these two sorts of things together . |
| 25 | MINISTERS HAVE failed to find a way of fending off Conservative Party conference pressure for extra funds to ease the introduction of the poll tax , it emerged yesterday . |
| 26 | In fact Weill 's American years represent a serious struggle to find a way of addressing his lifelong political concerns in a popular language that spoke directly to the American public . |
| 27 | But Mr Fowler confirmed that the Government 's attempt to find a way of preventing strikes in essential services has so far failed . |
| 28 | The Communist coup in Czechoslovakia ( January 1948 ) , the Berlin Blockade ( June 1948 ) , the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty ( April 1949 ) , the first Soviet atomic bomb test ( August 1949 ) , and Mao Tse Tung 's proclamation of the Peoples Republic of China ( October 1949 ) , all rekindled a sense of common purpose between Britain and the United States , and created an urge to find a way of harmonizing their atomic energy programmes . |
| 29 | Now Dr Mathews , a computer musician from Stanford University in California , is trying to find a way of getting people to take charge of music 's humanity . |
| 30 | The trick is to find a way of giving the Europeans enough of a feeling that they can pursue security policies of their own without at the same time forming a European defence association that would drive the Americans away . |