Example sentences of "way [prep] [v-ing] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Guidance on ways of speeding up the planning inquiry system which supersedes the previous rules contained in Statutory Instrument 1974/420 . |
| 2 | Finally , in Chapter 8 we consider some topics on the border between architecture and implementation ; dealing with faults in the hardware of the computer , ways of speeding up the processor , and the interface between computer and operator . |
| 3 | If it has no effect , members will be consulted again on ways of stepping up the action . |
| 4 | The General Medical Council is looking at ways of tightening up the rules to stop bogus doctors working and European laws will help . ’ |
| 5 | What is familiar in Christina Stead 's books is not familiar from other fiction , but from life , which also has ways of bringing about the unfamiliar . |
| 6 | The terrorists know that by hitting commercial buildings and their insurers they are also hitting at a British Government faced with potentially huge underwriting costs even as it is desperate to find ways of bringing down the public sector borrowing requirement . |
| 7 | When a choreographer creates a ballet based on ancient Greek or Roman myth and legend , or on medieval legends and the fairy tales derived from them , he can find inspiration for ways of acting out the story or theme by reading the works of authors such as Homer and Plato . |
| 8 | To most animals , the clarity of each image is at least as important as the number per second , and many have found ways of sharpening up the picture . |
| 9 | As concern over state expenditure mounted , governments have looked for ways of cutting back the volume of support for the railways . |
| 10 | They were talking about the House of Representatives at Weimar — ‘ That troublesome place ’ , as the T'ang continually called it — and about ways of shoring up the tenuous peace that now existed between it and the Seven . |
| 11 | By Sept. 30 the Federal Assembly would pass a law , which the federal government had already approved , legalising four possible ways of winding up the federation : by referendum ; by agreement between the two republics ; by the unilateral secession of one republic ; or by a simple declaration of the Assembly . |
| 12 | Since the acquisition of beautiful paintings and objects became one of the ways to clambering up the slippery social slopes this sort of chatter has become jet-propelled . |
| 13 | I should think it is working the way of bringing back the workhouse through having too much economy . ’ |
| 14 | The park , unlikely though it might seem , was not a job , not a political ideology , not a way of filling in the weary hours until she was old enough to retire , not even something to spite her mother with once and for all while she accepted everything else from her . |
| 15 | It is also ‘ the best way of filling in the crossword ’ , he added . |
| 16 | Each player in these groups was engaged for his or her ability to perform one type of role , therefore the playing was predictable because there was a particular way of acting out the various situations . |
| 17 | A good way of breaking up the detailed explanation is to add a quotation or two in this section . |
| 18 | The Joan Collins syndrome is one way of summing up the present attempt to take ten to fifteen years off the way women look . |
| 19 | Thus , as Neugebauer has succinctly remarked , our present way of dividing up the day into hours , minutes , and seconds ‘ is the result of a Hellenistic modification of an Egyptian practice combined with Babylonian numerical procedures ’ . |
| 20 | There is no way of dividing up the organisation 's work that will simultaneously satisfy all the organisation 's objectives and all its members . |
| 21 | He regarded it as a fairly accurate way of weeding out the pretenders from the cream of Europe 's opulent elite . |
| 22 | Often it is another state-owned body which is used to provide the mechanism for making the payment ; this , as we have seen , provides a way of dressing up the deal as being commercially ‘ normal ‘ . |
| 23 | Things were always crystal clear to Beamish ; he was always taking a view or spying out the land or finding some way of pointing out the difference between his world — a universe of sharp corners and exact distances — and the booming , foggy place in which Henry found himself every time he took off his glasses . |
| 24 | Rothstein argues that patron-client relationships are well suited to the peripheral capitalist development that has taken place in Latin America because they are a way of paring down the number of recipients of industrial gains , when these gains are few in number . |
| 25 | The establishment of a locally-based subsidiary company will commonly be regarded by a foreign or multinational holding company as a sensible and effective way of carrying out the business of the latter company ; but the English courts will see it differently . |
| 26 | Not neurotic , that , just a way of parcelling out the time , and doing everything I need to . |
| 27 | Well just colleagues about the Burnsall dispute erm er clearly and I 'm just anticipating the views of Congress that since we adopted a particularly way of making up the er Dispute Fund , I think we should certainly adopt exactly the same practice in relation |
| 28 | The government , which controls around 85 per cent of the country , has turned to logging as a way of making up the shortfall in revenue resulting from the end of Soviet aid , and its loss of the Palinn gem mines in western Cambodia to Khmer Rouge forces . |
| 29 | It looks very much a way of screening out The Great Wonderful British Public and not having to endure any of their tiresome phone witterings . |
| 30 | It also serves , appropriately enough , as a way of closing down the aporias which have opened up in Sartre 's text . |