Example sentences of "way [prep] [verb] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The NIO wants to know what has sparked the increase and ways of bringing it to an end , said the source . |
| 2 | The City and the County Councils have looked very seriously at the erm traffic study that the Oxford Preservation Trust commissioned , and they are working on it and working on ways of implementing it within the City centre . |
| 3 | In this second part we shall look at what is required of a spiritual director and suggest some ways of exploring it as a personal resource . |
| 4 | I 've tried a few ways of getting it off her … offering to telephone for her and so on , thinking she might improve if that was off her mind … ‘ |
| 5 | ‘ Each is only concerned to find ways of advocating it without getting it . ’ |
| 6 | For instance , they discovered how useful honey was in the treatment of wounds and it was thanks to people 's participation that the best ways of applying it to particular kinds of wounds were developed . |
| 7 | There are different ways of doing it with different people erm who do share it . |
| 8 | His keen instinct gave him a deep understanding of his environment and his innate intelligence led him to devise ways of altering it to his advantage . |
| 9 | Actually the ganglion cells are responsible for preprocessing the information in sophisticated ways before relaying it to the brain , and in some ways the word " interface " does n't do justice to this . |
| 10 | He now has a way of displaying it as a real space-filling 3-D image . |
| 11 | While one would have liked to have thought that the injustice of B's situation would of itself have been enough to persuade the Court of Appeal to strain to find a way of bringing it to an end , the Convention considerations ought to convince a future court that it has the duty to do so . |
| 12 | It also turns out that the ratio of proportions is rather cumbersome to handle when dealing with many variables at once , and no-one has yet proposed a way of decomposing it into component effects as they have with d s and with measures based on odds . |
| 13 | The difference between the way we saw life as young people — especially the amoral attitude to sex — and the conventional way of portraying it on screen was so great that I knew we were on the verge of a big change . |
| 14 | Dewey , as is well known , divided knowledge into tens so that he could employ decimal notation ; when a particular subject turned out to have more than nine facets he had to group them together , often at the expense of logic , and if a new facet arrived in-conveniently there was no way of including it at an appropriate place in the hierarchy . |
| 15 | Thus we agreed a way of phasing it in that reduced the cost of introduction but provided no disruption for those nearest retirement . |
| 16 | There 's no mathematical way of defining it at that point . |
| 17 | If a new demand is short-lived , it may be possible to find a way of meeting it without any overall loss of performance . |
| 18 | Secondly , having collated this information , they must find a way of translating it into actual literature . |
| 19 | Manchester Computing Centre is used to coping with multi-volume files , but a further problem arose when the file was too large to fit onto one of our backup cartridges ; as no one had ever needed to copy a file that large on to cartridge before , we had to devise a way of splitting it between two cartridges . |
| 20 | When I look at a natural object for a long time , like looking into the burning embers and the flames of a fire , there appears a new vision or facet of that object or a new way of seeing it in relationship to some other world of thought . |
| 21 | Well that 's probably a good a way of managing it as anything really . |
| 22 | The problem of evil has exercised people in all three traditions of historical monotheism and nobody has ever been able to find a logical way of reconciling it with the concept of the one God . |
| 23 | And when they would offer to no no they would n't they would have their own way of drying it in in their bags they would have another clean or or you would say clothes to put on but we never ever heard of them doing a washing . |
| 24 | ‘ If you wanted to find out how an astronaut 's body was likely to stand up to the strain of living on a very , very heavy planet , is there some way of testing it before actually visiting the planet ? ’ |
| 25 | Two centuries later , the Enlightenment returns : but not at all as a way for the West to take cognizance of its present possibilities and of the liberties to which it can have access , but as a way of interrogating it on its limits and on the powers which it has abused . |
| 26 | Well I mean I know that twenty percent is twenty pound in a hundred , but what 's a quick way of doing it on the calculator . |
| 27 | Another way of doing it of course is that as you 're |
| 28 | ‘ There must be a way of doing it without the costs of a full listing . |
| 29 | And this is a way of doing it without having to , you know , log-in to er a specific tradition , but to invoke , sort of a wider , more general principles . |
| 30 | our society has become so complicated and our representative system of government so remote to many fellow citizens , that there has to be an alternative way of expressing dissent other than the constitutional way of doing it through representative government . |