Example sentences of "[adv] the [adj -est] way of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unarmed combat is basically the quickest way of attacking somebody and grinding them into little pieces before moving on to your next victim . ) |
| 2 | Perhaps the best way of going forward would be for you to send me a description of your work . |
| 3 | Perhaps the best way of illustrating just how this operates in practice and how far-reaching its effects can be in terms of building up the involvement of an entire school community in a philosophy and policy for the future is to show what has happened in one Lincolnshire school . |
| 4 | Eventually the elimination of exchange rate margins , with the establishment of a common currency recognized as being perhaps the best way of embodying this . |
| 5 | Perhaps the best way of tricking readers into seeing but not seeing what you put in front of them is by stating your fact in a way that seems clearly to be doing so for a different purpose than that of playing the game . |
| 6 | Perhaps the best way of explaining about legal study is to try to remove some of the misconceptions which have grown up around it . |
| 7 | Perhaps the best way of doing it would be to give th erm them an N C O |
| 8 | Perhaps the best way of describing it is that it will put you at peace with yourself — which is what is intended . |
| 9 | I decide to leave it ; perhaps the safest way of retrieving it without snagging is with a fish on the end . |
| 10 | Perhaps the easiest way of looking at this is to think of the surface states as a charge store , which effectively shifts the switching level of the device . |
| 11 | Perhaps the neatest way of expressing the distinction is to contrast unilateral and cooperative procedures . |
| 12 | Growing your own vegetables is much the cheapest way of avoiding pesticides in the long run , but in the short term it may be possible to get unsprayed produce from someone with a large garden or allotment . |
| 13 | But to handle them directly , that is , to open up the central issue that arouses the pain , sensationalism or the controversy is not necessarily the best way of protecting children into emotion . |
| 14 | But it does appear that asking people what things mean is not necessarily the best way of tapping their semantic knowledge . |
| 15 | This is not necessarily the best way of passing on the good news , but it does stir the passers-by to find not the paid priests but the cobbler , the miner , the man who sells meat fritters telling them about Jesus . |
| 16 | By 1962 — the critical year of decision — it had become bound up with high politics ( rupturing a prestige Anglo-French collaborative project was not the best way of smoothing Britain 's path to EEC membership ) and the phenomenon of imperial surrogate whereby hi-tech enterprises became a substitute and a consolation for loss of empire . |
| 17 | It might seem that employing a fairly mechanical and impersonal survey approach , as described in this and the previous chapter , is not the best way of creating an interactionist perspective . |
| 18 | You might agree that it 's wasteful that it 's not the best way of channelling the resources but the fact is that the global amount available because of it is much greater than it was and that will be our baseline to start from if they decide to reorganise the money in a different way . |
| 19 | Perhaps that is not the best way of describing what our ideas are . |
| 20 | You know very often , in fact usually the best way of working things out is to go right back to the beginning is n't it , it , to start off at square one and the trouble is sometimes we want to start in the middle , we want to pick it up where we think we can come in and it does n't work that way , we 've got to go right back to the beginning , and what is it at the beginning , well we look to see how God , what God 's plan and his purpose for us is , how God made us , it tells us there in the book of Genesis in the first chapter in verse twenty seven , that God created us to be like himself and you 've got to look in the mirror and I 've got to look in the mirror , not just the glass mirror on the wall , but into the mirror of ourselves and realise we do n't have to be intellectuals , we do n't have to be astute observers , but even the very cursory of glances will show to us that were nothing like it , if God made you and me to be in his image , then something has gone wrong , but that 's how we started , that is how he made us and in making us to be like himself that does something tremendous because it gives to men and women , it gives to human kind a status and a responsibility in creation , he did not make you and me like the animals , no matter how wonderful their abilities are , they 've got tremendous instincts , they 've got tremendous homing instincts , how that tiny bird weighing , weighing less than an ounce can fly thousands and thousands of miles , for the first time and come back , six , nine months later to the very spot where it was hatched out of an nest , now you ca n't do it , I ca n't do it , but for all wonders that God has put into the , into his , to his creative to his , in , in his creation , in animals , in birds and in other creatures , he has done something that marks you and I humanity out above and beyond all his others creation , he has given to us a status and a responsibility |
| 21 | However , since we are keyed up for decisive physical action this is still the best way of working it off . |
| 22 | I love to anthropomorphise animals , because however patronising it may be , I think it 's still the best way of getting people to relate to them . |
| 23 | d s Surely , the testimonial system is still the best way of doing this . |
| 24 | ‘ Fuck art — let's dance ’ was not only one of their idioms , but possibly the best way of describing the feelings of many of these new dance bands . |
| 25 | Possibly the best way of talking through such matters is at local branch meetings . |
| 26 | It 's possibly the best way of getting it . |
| 27 | ( And giving your hair more body is probably also the best way of looking healthier and younger , short of a facelift ! ) |
| 28 | For racing yachts it generally provides the lightest of all hulls and it is also the cheapest way of getting a ‘ one-off ’ design built . |
| 29 | Ankaa lies slightly off the mid-point of a line joining Fomalhaut to Achernar , which is probably the best way of identifying it . |
| 30 | The Rhine , Elbe and Moselle are Germany 's three greatest rivers , and a luxury cruise on any one of them is probably the best way of taking in the superb scenery , fascinating cities , exciting excursions and plenty of jolly good food ! |