Example sentences of "way of [v-ing] [adv] [art] " 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 | Changes in the entry of calcium ions , or the phosphorylation of membrane constituents , or the activation of NMDA receptors , all seem plausible ways of bringing about a temporary change in the electrical properties of a cell , but what makes the change persist — what puts the L into LTP — should be the important question , if LTP is really to serve as a model for long-term memory . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | There are billions of ways of throwing together the bits of Mont Blanc , it might be said , and only one of them is Mont Blanc . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The idea of ‘ revolution ’ can set the pulses racing , for a time at least , and in 1980 it was invoked by Catherine Belsey : ‘ Only by closing the doors of the English department against theoretical challenges from outside can we continue to ignore the ‘ Copernican' ’ revolution which is currently taking place , and which is radically undermining traditional ways of perceiving both the world and the text . ’ |
| 12 | As concern over state expenditure mounted , governments have looked for ways of cutting back the volume of support for the railways . |
| 13 | There are billions of possible ways of putting together the bits of an airliner , and only one , or very few , of them would actually be an airliner . |
| 14 | There are even more ways of putting together the scrambled parts of a human . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | There are two ways of walking along a rocky beach . |
| 17 | But there are two ways of blowing up a balloon . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Six alternative ways of linking together the daily prices between 1982 and 1989 were used , and some substantial differences in the results were observed . |
| 20 | On the other hand , dissenters have viewed this emphasis as a way of skating over a suspicion that something was missing and , amidst the cornucopia of riches here , the inclusion of early mono versions of the Berceuse , Barcarolle and Second Sonata from 1946 provide some supporting evidence . |
| 21 | The consequences of this last point can be pernicious , actually encouraging a way of thinking whereby the aggressor in homophobic violence is somehow identified with his or her victim : both are homosexual , the one repressed , the other overt . |
| 22 | This remains a good way of doing things , and must be the most pain-free way of building up a stock of components . |
| 23 | I should think it is working the way of bringing back the workhouse through having too much economy . ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It is also ‘ the best way of filling in the crossword ’ , he added . |
| 26 | There is , of course , a limit to what a court can do by way of filling out a statute , but to some extent this is possible . |
| 27 | This was my mother 's way of helping out a little tiny bit . ’ |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | So again , erm a way of picking up a few marks , quite a few . |
| 30 | A good way of breaking up the detailed explanation is to add a quotation or two in this section . |