Example sentences of "[vb pp] as the [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Butlin version of the holiday camp prospered in a climate of campaigning for holidays with pay and in a period before packaging had been fully developed as the major way of selling holidays and travel . |
| 2 | Since the dominant conception of pollution control work is utterly pragmatic , doing the job is regarded as the best way of learning the job ( cf. |
| 3 | There are two main methods of budding — that which may be regarded as the traditional way , and another ‘ new ’ method that is more often used for other shrubs and trees — although we were using it 40 years ago on both bush and standard roses . |
| 4 | Therefore , what we are suggesting is not to be considered as the only way of " doing it right " . |
| 5 | Siobhan resents the fact that the mainstream broadcasting industry is presented as the only way of working . |
| 6 | And can we expect states to allow non-coercive jural agencies to gather information in an effective manner when this involves the divulgence of state secrets , even if this is seen as the only way to secure confidence in , for instance , disarmament treaties ? |
| 7 | Legislation clearly was seen as the only way to bring about that objective quickly . |
| 8 | Green activists have claimed that the Commission 's definition of development retains the mindset of the 1960s , when vast infrastructural improvement schemes were seen as the only way to improve depressed local economies . |
| 9 | The chartered company continued to be regarded as the best type of organization for carrying on overseas trade , but a grant to an individual proprietor began to be seen as the best way to set up a new colony to which settlers would come to cultivate the land . |
| 10 | It has been argued that the sexual division of labour between husband and wife may be interpreted as the best way of maximising the welfare of the working class family , and certainly the struggle for a family wage benefited working class families to the extent that it raised the wages of the male breadwinner . |
| 11 | At the start of this account , computer-aided freedom , caf , was proposed as the future way forward many tutors and learners would like to tread . |
| 12 | Although many politicians have not been prepared to accept the thorough-going case for pricing advanced above , many have , under the practical pressure of public spending constraints , been prepared to accept charging as a supplementary way of raising revenue , or to see charges increased as the only way of preserving a service . |