Example sentences of "a [adj] method " in BNC.

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1 It was not Nobel prize material , just a slick method of protein analysis , which many other experimenters had found immediately useful .
2 To transform empowerment education theory into program development , Freire offers a three-stage method .
3 The use of progressive muscle relaxation exercises , as in the Jacobsen technique ( 1938 ) commonly employed in systematic desensitization , is a possible method .
4 A POSSIBLE METHOD OF WORKING
5 Each position implies a broad method : in ( a ) illustration and clarification of the ‘ informing spirit ’ , as in national histories of styles of art and kinds of intellectual work which manifest , in relation with other institutions and activities , the central interests and values of a ‘ people ’ ; in ( b ) exploration from the known or discoverable character of a general social order to the specific forms taken by its cultural manifestations .
6 comparison of the stability of a product made by a modified method with that of the original product
7 On the contrary , it can be seen that the standard of generalist work is raised through the training , enthusiasm and knowledge of the specialists and so is a cost-effective method of raising standards within the CAB .
8 This was a cost-effective method , but failed to deal with non-clustered accidents scattered throughout residential streets , with locations that changed from year to year .
9 Measurements can also be made in solution , if the solvent absorption in any important region is low , or by a differential method .
10 A category B prisoner , he was with two prison officers on a private minibus like this one — a normal method of transporting inmates between jails .
11 There obviously can not be a specific method of completing the forms .
12 Unlike Persia or Anatolia , where each region or village is associated with a specific method of weaving and repertoire of designs , rug-making in China was never based around exclusive localized styles ; and although antique rugs may be classified as " Paotao " or " Ning-Hsia " , for example , this is usually a definition of their quality and style , rather than a statement of where they were made .
13 Magnetic resonance imaging is a non-invasive method , which shows very early osteonecrotic changes and which is in good agreement with pathoanatomical findings .
14 This is a destructive method in which leaves are cut and placed on a viewing area .
15 He might well have written ‘ Thank God I am not a Freudian ’ , even though he had a great concern with preserving psychoanalysis as a coherent method and theoretical approach to human action .
16 , on the other hand , agreed with me during our discussion at the meeting that a live oral vaccine is a preferable method of immunization against polio .
17 There is another technique known as metabolic thermogenesis , which is a non-shivering method of producing adrenalin done with the aid of food , in what is known as calorigenic action .
18 A number of considerations need to be made , and it is possible that a combined method may be preferable .
19 Objective measurement in inspection is called checking by variables , which contrasts with checking by attributes , which is a subjective method .
20 Plateless bolt-on necks are the order of the day , and the Koreans have had to work out a strange method of extending the neck an extra step past the end of the fingerboard to try to keep the Rickenbacker look ( you might be able to spot this feature on the black one , between the neck and middle pickups ) .
21 The second half of the chapter proposes that whole group work is a working method which develops out of small group work and gives greater coherence to it .
22 It aims to show that closely related to the objective of resurrecting conservative social policies is a political method which involves an attempt to change Britain 's political landscape .
23 I submit to you that Pacifism is not and never can be a political method so long as it is chiefly concerned with abstaining from the use of force … .
24 Schumpeter drastically narrowed the conception of democracy he used by defining it as " a political method … for arriving at political — legislative and administrative — decisions " , and therefore , he said , " incapable of being an end in itself " .
25 During the measurement of the molar mass of the polymer using a colligative method , an equilibrium is established when the chemical potential of the solvent in the solution is equal to that of the pure solvent , where the pure solvent is either in another phase or separated from the solution by a semi-permeable membrane .
26 His stress on Marxism as a historical method that presupposed and required the idea of totality initiated a course that determined the history of Western Marxism to our own day .
27 This function of the discrimination tree is basically a set-splitting method of looking up words .
28 The materialistic interpretation of history therefore is a dialectical method linked to a materialistic world-view and applied to human history .
29 NOBODY , unfortunately , has invented a scientific method of measuring the stiffness of a steeplechase fence .
30 In Soviet Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain , Dr Genady Sergeyev names techniques now in the development stage relating to a scientific method of determining electro-magnetic emotional patterns .
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