Example sentences of "way [prep] [verb] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The concept of normalisability also forms the basis of a rather different way of determining whether an anomaly has a grammatical or semantic origin . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | If , however , press freedom is never absolute , there can be no real way of guaranteeing that the mass media will represent a wide range of views . |
| 5 | It is their way of stressing that the Beyond has come into our midst , and we can neither organise nor domesticate him . |
| 6 | There is no way of knowing that the writer intended to write the word books , but by a lexical substitution error wrote boots instead . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | There is no direct way of knowing whether the ancient people constructed magic circles , since by their nature they are only temporary . |
| 9 | ( That is why , in Task 2 , although one may make a pretty good guess on the basis of past experience , there is no sure way of knowing whether the sentences which are grammatically correct ike ( 1 ) , ( 3 ) , and ( 5 ) — have been used or just invented . ) |
| 10 | But the reader has no way of knowing because the relevant information has not been given by the writer . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The information had been furnished by the French underground , and , as the crews had been told , there was no way of knowing if the information was correct . |
| 13 | If you do not obtain a certificate of posting we are not legally liable to pay compensation , after all we have no other way of knowing if the item was even despatched . |
| 14 | One way of telling whether a horse has completely eliminated the infection is to take follow-up nasal swabs . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | But there was no way of telling whether the thing was still outside . |
| 17 | Not necessarily , because in our experiments we experimenters , devise ; however , we have no way of telling whether the scales we use are the same as those the animals themselves use in making their memories . |
| 18 | Patients will have no way of telling whether the waiting list is a reflection of high quality and status , or that the consultant is doing a lot of outside non-NHS work . |
| 19 | At that moment , there comes a new way of seeing and the sensation of tears is felt and with it the ecstasy of seeing the eternal or divine . |
| 20 | Norwegian freedom fighters had discovered the existence of the base ; but had no way of ascertaining whether the Dane was a collaborator or a forced worker . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The anthropologist Margaret Murray used to say that the god of one religion becomes the devil of the next , and these legends may be a way of indicating that the sites to which they were attached had been sacred in pre-Christian times . |
| 23 | He moved round the room — in so far as it was possible in such cramped quarters — glad to he relieved momentarily of desk work but perhaps by way of indicating that the interview must be conducted as if we were both on the move ; and this meant that certain remarks were addressed to the window or the mantelpiece . |
| 24 | There 's no way of testing whether the strip of card which holds the cracker 's ‘ bang ’ is easy to grasp ; no indication if the whole cracker is easy to break , or tough as last year 's turkey ; and no clues as to whether the cracker makes a loud , emphatic noise . |
| 25 | Whether it continues to survive is simply another way of asking whether the traditional collateral fact doctrine will continue to be used by the courts . |
| 26 | This was his way of declaring that the battle for the Labour Party was won and the Battle for Britain about to commence . |
| 27 | Perhaps this is a way of saying that no one is immune from the feelings of attraction towards being merged in a group , or in a commune , a nation , a religious community , a political movement . |
| 28 | That is rather a ponderous way of saying that no one in his right mind doubts the truth of my assertion about the states in which Bill will be found , because there are two of them and he must be in one or the other . |
| 29 | ‘ It is our way of saying that every guest is important , ’ he says . |
| 30 | He became ill , and eventually died from ‘ a twisted bowel ’ , which frequently is another way of saying that a horse died from psychological stress . |