Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [adj] way of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 17.39 ( i ) Pupils should be taught the conventional ways of forming letter shapes , lower case and capitals , through purposeful guided practice in order to foster a comfortable and legible handwriting style . |
| 2 | Travel companies are featuring Japan more and more as a destination in their brochures , and more foreign visitors are encountering the Japanese way of hotels . |
| 3 | Over the following four years he cultivated the nomadic way of life which , with the exception of the war years , was to be his until he died : he drifted restlessly in southern Europe and North Africa — and when in London was seen at the theatre , the Ballets Russes , the Café Royal , and at the bohemian restaurant , La Tour Eiffel . |
| 4 | In short , ‘ it offers the only way of experiencing essence ’ . |
| 5 | The woman went on to say that the social worker had written down what her husband had told her to because she was frightened of him , and because she was a young nit-wit from college no more capable of understanding the wily ways of men like her husband than she could fly . |
| 6 | ‘ Politely but comprehensively ’ , recorded the Financial Times , Signor Ornelli Prandini , the Communist President of LEGA dismissed the British way of doing things : ‘ I do n't agree at all . |
| 7 | Czechoslovaks criticise the Polish way of doing it . |
| 8 | Both Evangelicals and Utilitarians wished to impose the middle-class way of life upon their thriftless fellow men , whose poverty , they believed , was in great measure attributable to improvident and ungodly habits , such as addiction to drink and raising illegitimate children . |
| 9 | The ideal to be aimed at is to find the optimum way of balancing the costs of insufficient stock against the costs of holding stock ( tied-up capital , storage space , insurance , damage etc ) . |
| 10 | ‘ If we want the old way of life back we have to vote with our feet and vote now . ’ |
| 11 | Initially , the steel toecaps of industrial boots provided a good way of savaging your opponent . |
| 12 | When the children help , they sometimes suggest a different way of arranging things and even a small alteration can suddenly make a forgotten toy more popular . |
| 13 | Perhaps so , but it seems to me that , if the experience curve is understood as reflecting the continued , planned desire for cost leadership as more is produced , the expression of the curve and the learning rate provide a useful way of monitoring cost-reduction possibilities and helping to formulate strategy . |
| 14 | Paramo 's Nevada jacket and Prima trousers provide a good way of beating the rain . |
| 15 | The next book must break new ground , provide new insights , provide a new way of looking , or perhaps even a way of re-seeing the familiar . |
| 16 | You 'll enjoy a new way of eating , based on natural , whole ingredients , with this diet plan — and you wo n't have to go hungry |
| 17 | So lawyer C took on a notoriously troublesome client — and indeed , found a satisfactory way of handling the client himself , as well as his many debts and difficulties ! |
| 18 | P&O Roadtanks Tanker Driver , Ian Newman found a novel way of training for the marathon |
| 19 | The problem of evil has exercised people in all three traditions of historical monotheism and nobody has ever been able to find a logical way of reconciling it with the concept of the one God . |
| 20 | I have no difficulty using gesso or in laying and burnishing the leaf , but I am unable to find a suitable way of laying paint onto burnished leaf . |
| 21 | On a more general level it is possible to say that since painting is in any case an art of illusion , in so far as it conveys sensations of volume and depth on a two-dimensional surface , it was easier for the Cubists to break with traditional conventions , to push the ‘ illusion ’ one step further , and to invent a new pictorial language , than it was to find a new way of dealing with the solid , tangible forms themselves . |
| 22 | He added members wanted the Government to find a new way of paying for NHS work , and hoped a joint inquiry by the Department of Health and British Dental Association would come up with a solution . |
| 23 | Malcom Green and Robin Perutz at Oxford University have harnessed matrix isolation work in the quest to find a simple way of activating methane , a process of enormous commercial interest because of the vast stores under the North Sea . |
| 24 | Dressing up helps to , helps children to find a simple way of changing role and to establish their own identities . |
| 25 | Precisely because the composition of phonolexical sets can not be specified on phonological grounds , it is difficult to find a principled way of specifying the lexical input to the variable ( u ) ; eventually eighteen words were assigned to the set simply on the basis of observation . |
| 26 | I 'd have turned it down without asking except I thought you might be interested — ah — because … ’ he shrugged , unable to find a tactful way of saying that this was the best offer she would get all year . |
| 27 | If you 're taking a holiday more than a three-hour drive from here , he thought , I 'll have to find a different way of doing this . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Armed with this hypothesis , they set out to find a convenient way of reducing carbon monoxide that might avoid the expensive catalysts and energy intensive conditions of Fischer-Tropsch chemistry — an industrial process that converts carbon monoxide and hydrogen synthesis gas to mixtures of organic compounds . |
| 30 | Military pressure on Mr Gorbachev to find a quick way of ending the war stems from a bigger worry : that , by letting America take over conduct of the war , the Soviet Union will see its influence suffer in the region , especially if American troops stay on once the fighting is over . |