Example sentences of "way [prep] [verb] about the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Let's go and find the bastards , ’ Sharpe grunted , and once he had said it he marvelled at how easy it was to slip back into the old ways of speaking about the enemy . |
| 2 | If abstractions such as ‘ bureaucracy ’ and ‘ classical management ’ theories provide some ways of thinking about the management ideology at work in our schools , what practical evidence do we have ? |
| 3 | Starting from a point further back in the development of a theory of television than that from which Steve Neale begins for cinema , I want to suggest some ways of thinking about television genre , which , though they will not deal with particular programme categories , may open out some more complex ways of thinking about the aesthetics and poetics of television . |
| 4 | Wells employed two different ways of thinking about the future , which he once labelled undirected and directed thinking . |
| 5 | For now , the point I wish to make is that in regard to the notional/functional syllabus , although there is a change in the way of describing the content units for language teaching , this change tends to be assimilated into traditional and well-established ways of thinking about the syllabus as a pedagogic construct . |
| 6 | In the end , it is naïve to expect the media to single-handedly change centuries of established ways of thinking about the role of the individual/citizen/consumer in the political and social system . |
| 7 | Jean Grimshaw looks at some of the ways in which feminists have tried to conceptualise what it is for a woman to be autonomous , and the relationship between these conceptions and philosophical ways of thinking about the human self . |
| 8 | In this paper , I want to look at one kind of way in which some feminists have tried to conceptualise what it is for a woman to be ‘ autonomous ’ , and at the implications this has for ways of thinking about the human self . |
| 9 | There could be two distinct ways of thinking about the teacher 's role in promoting collaboration : |
| 10 | Four ways of thinking about the relationship between central and local government in Britain have been distinguished ( Rhodes , 1979 ) . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , both approaches offer ways of thinking about the values guiding organization participants ' behaviour . |
| 12 | But these expressions are often only convenient figures of speech , shorthand ways of talking about the average or representative members of a community . |
| 13 | I think that this kind of objection rests upon a false way of thinking about the information that the input system provides . |
| 14 | ‘ It represents a new way of thinking about the media world we live in and a new way of learning the skills of active engagement and critical reflection with all forms of modern media — television , video , film , radio , print , and the glue that binds them all together — advertising , ’ says Sister Elizabeth Thoman , Executive Director of the Center for Media and Values . |
| 15 | Evolutionary game theory is a way of thinking about the evolution of phenotypes when fitnesses are frequency-dependent ; i.e. when the best thing to do depends on what others are doing . |
| 16 | This identification was one factor which provoked a major attack on the practice of International Relations which helped usher in a new way of thinking about the subject . |
| 17 | Realism , claimed Carr , is a well-established way of thinking about the world : witness , for instance , Machiavelli , ‘ the first important political realist ’ . |
| 18 | I do not pretend that these notions can do more than offer a way of thinking about the quantum world with some hope of doing justice both to the idiosyncrasy of its ways and also to the beautiful structure of the microworld which has been laid bare by the discoveries of elementary particle physics . |
| 19 | For me , it started a whole new way of thinking about the photograph . |
| 20 | Is this a good way of thinking about the problem' ? |
| 21 | All religions use what in classical theology is known as the via negativa — the negative way of speaking about the centre of religious worship or meditation . |
| 22 | The student Work Experience programme is always a positive way of learning about the skills and attitudes of young people who may wish to work in an organisation like yours . |
| 23 | So although in a sense one 's moral judgements indicate simply one 's personal emotional response to a situation , in making one 's response stable by further enquiry into the details of a situation , and by further reflection , one is not only stabilising one 's own feelings but moving towards the way of feeling about the situation on which men in general would converge . |
| 24 | America is his favourite way of talking about the undiscovered country , and it shows that as well as suicide and blanket boredom he has taken over the flavour of Raskolnikov 's joke about getting used to family life . |
| 25 | Gustave had a way of talking about the women he had enjoyed . |
| 26 | But , even assuming its feasibility , this would be a grossly stupid way of going about the business , reducing the whole delicate operation to a clumsy manipulation of crudely simplified formulae . |
| 27 | I mean only to endorse a complex , two-stage way of reasoning about the responsibilities of officials and citizens that finds a natural expression in the personification of community and can not be reproduced by a reductive translation into claims about officials and citizens one by one . |
| 28 | But we need to take our consideration beyond that a little way in thinking about the accounting customs and legal requirements of the different countries . |