Example sentences of "way [prep] [verb] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Response to art at this level demands both a willingness and a capacity to go beyond obvious and conventional ways of perceiving and a preparedness to accommodate and restructure existing concepts and patterns of relationships . |
| 2 | Will the Secretary of State consider ways of ensuring that a sky shield can be erected by the international powers over Croatian air space to stop the aerial bombardment of Dubrovnik and Vukovar and also find ways to increase humanitarian aid to people who will otherwise continue to die over Christmas ? |
| 3 | There is no foolproof way of determining if a Turkish knot has been used , but a fair indication can be obtained by looking at the back of the rug . |
| 4 | It was concerned with the story that Archimedes had found a way of discovering if a crown made for King Hiero of Syracuse was in fact of pure gold , as it was supposed to be , or had been adulterated with a cheaper metal . |
| 5 | As for communication , there is no way of knowing whether a cab radio would have made any difference in this accident , but I agree with my hon. Friend that it is desirable that cab radios should be fitted into locomotives and multiple unit fleets . |
| 6 | Most of the respondents answered this question in a similar manner ; it is perhaps disturbing that most companies feel they would have no way of knowing if a headhunter had abused their trust . |
| 7 | One way of telling whether a horse has completely eliminated the infection is to take follow-up nasal swabs . |
| 8 | We have no way of telling whether a simple Menuetto marking by Haydn or anyone else indicates that a movement is to go slow , fast or somewhere in between . |
| 9 | The program must have some way of establishing when a transput operation is complete , so that a further operation can be initiated or ( in the input case ) so that the input character can be processed . |
| 10 | He became ill , and eventually died from ‘ a twisted bowel ’ , which frequently is another way of saying that a horse died from psychological stress . |
| 11 | Like ‘ excessive profit ’ , ‘ over-priced ’ is merely another way of saying that a market is failing . |
| 12 | Mastery of mathematics , according to Cockroft , gives children a powerful means of communication , a way of representing , a way of explaining and a way of predicting . |
| 13 | We have also seen that there is no mechanical way of deciding whether a function is a public one or not . |
| 14 | ‘ It may well be that … the only absolutely sure way of ensuring that a guarantee or charge from a third party is valid is to insist on that party being independently advised . |
| 15 | One way of ensuring that a particular type of microcomputer is suitable , is to visit other schools , or school library services or teachers ' centres to find out whether a particular microcomputer will be suitable in the individual school . |
| 16 | Mr Mario Cuomo , New York 's governor , has led the way in showing that a politician can stand up to the capital-punishment lobby . |
| 17 | France , however , has gone some way to showing that a judicious space programme — based on modest goals and less than the highest technology of the era — need not be excessively costly . |