Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] a way " in BNC.
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| 1 | The scientific approach to the world of nature developed as a way of looking to see what was actually there and interpreting it in the light of its own evidence instead of simply accepting received , traditional wisdom . |
| 2 | Segmentation may have developed as a way of enabling worms to increase their efficiency as burrowers in mud . |
| 3 | Such research is systematised and operationalised as therapy through the application of bereavement theory , developed as a way of conceptualising normal and ‘ healthy ’ mourning of the loss of a loved one , to disablement : |
| 4 | In a long dissertation it might be justified as a way of helping your reader remember your starting point ; in a short essay , however , it is redundant and simply shows that you do n't know how to finish . |
| 5 | And its leaders , with precious little to show for 40 years of economic folly , may see the nuclear crisis they have provoked as a way of taking minds off empty stomachs . |
| 6 | The tax , part of an emergency budget for 1991 , was originally intended as a way of reducing subsidies on a wide range of consumer prices , to give the government some scope to cut import taxes on raw and semi-finished goods for industry . |
| 7 | I 've talked to other people whose mothers came to naturopathy in the fifties , and it 's been explained as a way of eating posh for those who do n't know about Continental food . |
| 8 | It is a measure of success in any society when this post is filled as a way of taking the pressure off the General Secretary and we are grateful to Mr Field for offering his services . |
| 9 | Many of the meetings listed on that page will be over by the time this gets to you but the details are given as a way of providing a background of work in progress and ideas for future programmes for all the groups . |
| 10 | For some departments in local councils , the Urban Programme has been regarded as a way in which capital schemes cut from other mainstream budgets might be reinstated . |
| 11 | ‘ Anything less than 55 minutes is almost regarded as a way of cheating people . ’ |
| 12 | Participatory democracy necessarily has implications for social life , and is better regarded as a way of life than as no more than a political device or method . |
| 13 | It was regarded as a way of forcing the emergence of a new curriculum ( Jones 1989 ) and covered the last two years of compulsory secondary education and two years in FE . |
| 14 | Secondly , as new residents in homes will be able to claim housing benefit under the new proposals , why can not housing benefit be claimed as a way of helping to make good the shortfall ? |
| 15 | Their heavy armour-plating may have originated as a way of disposing of the salts derived from their food which accumulated in their bodies . |
| 16 | For all these reasons , it is clear that attempted suicide should be discouraged as a way of coping . |
| 17 | Polyp removal is therefore recommended as a way of interrupting the adenoma-carcinoma sequence . |
| 18 | No sooner had the announcement been made than it was withdrawn , pending deliberations by Lincolnshire County Council as to whether subsidisation could be considered as a way of continuance . |
| 19 | However , the study was not designed in a way that would allow the conclusion that physicians were as accurate as psychiatrists in their diagnoses and recommendations . |
| 20 | It also believes that planning can ensure that new buildings are designed in a way which it likes , and has an ability to prevent anything , however small , happening near its own house which reduces its value or interferes with the way in which it has been in the habit of using it . |
| 21 | Because their demands were nil , the Masai could be approached in a way which came close to the Colonial Service 's proclaimed ideal of disinterested benevolence . |
| 22 | Moreover , these correlations only achieved overall significance when the junctions were grouped in a way which may make sense , but was clearly post hoc . |
| 23 | The late Marguerite Yourcenar was also an admirer of Proust and she relates the history of her mother 's family in Dear Departed in a way which recalls Proust 's fidelity to our actual thinking about the past and to the sheer coincidences by which past and present can seem to illuminate one another . |
| 24 | Once documented the data can be rearranged in a way that reveals how you can reorganize matters to give you more time . |
| 25 | These new powers , however , were buttressed by substantial grants of land , which led one chronicler to remark that the resources of the crown had been dissipated and a modern historian to comment rather sourly that ‘ hereditary offices and jurisdictions were scattered in a way hardly compatible either with the interests of the crown , or with sound finance ’ . |
| 26 | When humans cut down the forest , it might be replaced by a permanent grassland because the soil itself had been modified in a way that prevented the trees from reseeding themselves . |
| 27 | Such metalwork and fabric may have been decorated in a way which conveyed meaning to the wearer and the viewer , but all of the artefacts whose technology we have considered had , first and foremost a function to their owners . |
| 28 | It is artificially constrained in a way that ensures that the burden is not fairly distributed and those at the top end of the property range , and very likely to be at the top end of the income range , are being given shelter which is not justified . |
| 29 | Given that agreement is reached and a contract is established , either formally or informally , the matter of supply is resolved in a way that will ensure continuity of suitable materials with the minimum of problems . |
| 30 | Of course now he did n't have to walk quite so far to do his searching ; but a similar kind of dedication was still required of him , for The Bar contained in a way the streets of the whole city , there were men there from all the different parts of it . |