Example sentences of "they [verb] [art] way of " in BNC.
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| 1 | They discovered for themselves the value of taking note of the way pupils write of their school experience ; and by passing unnamed ‘ pupil products ’ around the staff group , they devised a way of cross-checking and standardising the assessment criteria that each was using in grading children 's work . |
| 2 | One argument for common investment funds is that at the moment they provide a way of getting round the narrow and wider investment bands that dictate charity investment . |
| 3 | they provide no way of measuring the salience of an attitude ; we never know whether the attitude would have been expressed at all , or in the same way , apart from the direct question … |
| 4 | That is , he maintains that while they are soldiers it is their duty to fight , but should they choose the way of non-violence then it would be their duty to refuse to fight . |
| 5 | They forgot the ways of wild rabbits . |
| 6 | They would be free from slavery , from work they were unsuited to do , but they lost a way of life , they had to look after their children for longer , they had to find other work to keep the family fed , clothed , rent paid etc . |
| 7 | Thus , they offer a way of working with employer partners in the active development of students ' enterprise skills . |
| 8 | Melford and a group of archers fanned out before the cavalcade ; they cleared the way of the usual merchants , traders , pedlars , students and hosts of vagabonds and beggars who cluster on every road like flies round a horse 's arse . |
| 9 | Yet surely she knew they had no way of paying , should she demand it ? |
| 10 | Tonks was incensed about the Vichy venture , as were the NZRFU folk at home , everyone was embarrassed that they had no way of knowing where the All Black party were , what was involved in the game , and where next the travelling group might surface . |
| 11 | Because they had no way of driving out of office the men who ran the executive in their colonies , the colonial assemblies could not assert themselves in the same way as the Westminster Parliament , and had to fall back on using the seventeenth-century approach of saying that there should be redress of grievance before taxes were voted to run the government . |
| 12 | It was also to be assumed the four Orientals themselves would have to be faced , as they had no way of knowing that two of them were already dead , thanks to the actions of Sherman and the Prophet himself . |
| 13 | They make promises that they have no way of sustaining . |
| 14 | And , of course , like so many palaeontological matters , they stir up arguments between specialists who think they have a way of solving the enigmas . |
| 15 | because they , they just know they 're different and they , they learn a way of coping , you know ? |
| 16 | As does the whole concept of the Common Foreign and Security policy , they represent a way of thinking which sees military capability as relatively unimportant beside the dream of a powerful and independent European Union , speaking with one voice and free from American interference . |
| 17 | Such blood , and the mud of Culloden , were the last Gaelic colours to fly over Scotland ; the clans looked straight into the mouths of Cumberland 's cannon and died , and with them expired a way of life — the Stewarts of Appin , and the Maclarens , and the Camerons , and the Atholl Brigade , and behind them Ogilvies , and behind them the prince himself . |
| 18 | They 've built a model of the Venetian coast to help them find a way of saving the historic Italian city from potential disaster . |