Example sentences of "[verb] way [prep] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It ushered in a decade in which composers began to find ways of circumventing the proscription on opera , even if many of them full avoided the full trappings of the opera house . |
| 2 | Over the next 20 years scientists tried , mostly by trial and error , to find ways of ordering the possibilities so that the benefits of ‘ refutation screening ’ could be achieved . |
| 3 | They will need to find ways of shedding the accumulated pounds . |
| 4 | DEC has never used a Western Research Labs-designed computer architecture , although the unit was originally set up to find ways of building the fastest possible computers . |
| 5 | As long as people want to borrow , banks and other financial institutions will normally try to find ways of meeting the demand . |
| 6 | There needs to be regular joint reviews held between the contractor and the school to find ways of improving the service offered to children . |
| 7 | We have shown him a better way of making the savings he requires next year , and we will be happy to work with him — and with the consumer groups — to find ways of improving the value obtained for the money spent on legal aid in the future . |
| 8 | Like other movements to bring about change in the same period antislavery had to find ways of attracting the attention and gaining the support of those who could advance the cause . |
| 9 | For example , if we discover that knowing the domain , or ‘ subject matter ’ of a particular text significantly reduces the ambiguity , then it will become desirable to try to find ways of detecting the domain automatically . |
| 10 | The aims of the redesign are wide-ranging but simple : to find ways of retaining the station 's capabilities while slashing its cost . |
| 11 | VIA also has to pay heavily to use the tracks and it is almost universally agreed that CP in particular has spent the last 12 years over-charging and trying to find ways of clearing the passenger trains from the path of its lucrative freights . |
| 12 | With current British government policy of reduced funding for colleges of higher and further education , the bursar 's staff spend much of their time these days in trying to find ways of balancing the college 's books by reducing overspending in order to restore financial viability and so preserve college existence . |
| 13 | In practice settings , those involved are often struggling to find ways of resolving the dilemmas they face . |
| 14 | Sainsbury 's works with suppliers to find ways of reducing the use of pesticides to a minimum . |
| 15 | The need to retain the primacy of the professional advisory function is surely paramount , and the Authority might well wish to find ways of reducing the administrative burden on advisory staff . |
| 16 | You can even try to find ways of making the set of conditions impossible to create by disabling some aspect of the program . |
| 17 | However , there are always unmarked options in every language which provide ways of changing the position of elements in a clause to fit in with the surrounding context . |
| 18 | We shall discuss ways of structuring the speech problem in more detail in the next chapter . |
| 19 | After a meeting of EC Foreign Ministers and WEU Defence Ministers also on Sept. 19 a communiqué stated that " no military intervention is contemplated " but proposed that the WEU should explore ways of supporting the activities of EC monitors to make their contribution more effective . |
| 20 | Since the basic hypothesis of the ethogenic approach to the understanding of social action is that the very same social knowledge and skill is involved in the genesis of action and of accounts , by recording and analysing each separately , we have two mutually supporting and reciprocally checking ways of discovering the underlying system of social knowledge and belief . |
| 21 | The Government must now seek ways of strengthening the Union to ensure it continuing vitality , while showing appropriate sensitivity to the nationalistic sentiments stirred up by this election . |
| 22 | They found ways of evading the restrictive sumptuary laws . |
| 23 | At Moscow University , where the political economist I. V. Vernadskii found ways of advocating the emancipation of the serfs even before discussion of the subject was officially permitted , the staff changed so much that the liberally inclined Sergei Solov'ev began to look like a conservative . |
| 24 | We must consider ways of describing the molecular structure as a continuum , such descriptions involving the idea of " embedding " , or we must reconcile ourselves to the fact that we can never do this and work entirely with a kinetic theory of molecules with the aim of deriving their properties including elastic ad viscous properties from the equations of motion . |
| 25 | There is a feeling that they need to develop educational approaches that are based on indigenous conceptions of social service rather than Western urban industrial models and that they should be seeking ways of maximizing the contribution of front-line personnel , either through the direct provision of training or by teaching their graduates how to train and make optimum use of front-line workers ( University Grants Commission , 1980 ; Siddiqui , 1984 ) . |
| 26 | ‘ We will be seeking ways of promoting the importance of the freight industry to all facets of the UK economy across all modes of transport ’ , said Mr Waller . |
| 27 | Thus the peaks and troughs of the two curves match , illustrating the obvious conclusion that military policy-makers should be seeking ways of increasing the deterrent capabilities of their armed forces in the lower-intensity bands at the right-hand half of the spectrum rather than in the higher-intensity bands at the left-hand end . |
| 28 | Many of those proposing changes to the balloting system were opposed to opting out in principle and were really seeking ways of reducing the number of schools withdrawing from local authority control . |
| 29 | I actually believed I was thinking clearly as I plotted ways of fleeing the country before having to pay the thousands of pounds I appeared to owe . |
| 30 | PUBLICANS in Wales are being shown ways of reducing the amount of alcohol their customers drink . |