Example sentences of "way [prep] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Homonyms are another example of a way of distinguishing between identical sounding words . ) |
| 2 | The objectives in Parts 1 and 2 provided a way of thinking about behavioural problems and a set of general methods for dealing with these problems . |
| 3 | Overall , the crux of this six-point programme is the claim that Realism is a scientific way of thinking about international relations . |
| 4 | Nevertheless this is , as she says , a way of thinking about international politics which is still more or less in its infancy . |
| 5 | Classrooms became ever more informal and when new schools were built their very shape and design proclaimed acceptance of a way of thinking about young children 's learning which was often quite alien to the more traditional views of parents . |
| 6 | Charles Handy redefined the term ‘ conflict ’ to offer a useful way of thinking about destructive and constructive conflict and how it might be managed . |
| 7 | Moreover — and more fundamentally — this way of thinking about Human Liberation has got things backwards . |
| 8 | To achieve this Lazarsfeld borrowed a notion from mathematics and logic , that of the variable , and used it to create a way of thinking about social science in both its theoretical and empirical aspects . |
| 9 | With the explanatory survey and the refinement of variable analysis as a way of thinking about social research , the interview and the questionnaire have become most important instruments in achieving the dream of a quantitative social science : it is this which has also modified the character and the rationale of interviewing and questionnaire design . |
| 10 | One way of thinking about abstract identification is to think of the output as being a statement like ‘ This is word number 538 ’ . |
| 11 | These days it is not unreasonable to present variable analysis as a relatively coherent approach to social research , some would say the approach , which embraces not only the technical matters to do with data collection and analysis but also , importantly , a way of thinking about theoretical and empirical problems . |
| 12 | One abstract way of thinking about this is to think of a pragmatic theory as a " black box " ( an as yet unexplicated mechanism ) , and to ask : what should be the input to such a theory , and what should be the output ( or : what is the theory meant to predict , given what particular information ) ? |
| 13 | That term did n't last long , though , and ‘ Plate Tectonics ’ really came into being when scientists all over the world , such as Isacks , Oliver , Sykes , Le Pichon and Morgan ( to name but a few ) , began to apply the new way of thinking to specific parts of the globe . |
| 14 | We to my w way of thinking like that is n't it . |
| 15 | My argument does not even assume that it was a dominant way of thinking in earlier periods . |
| 16 | So common is this way of thinking in social research that it is difficult to recapture its radical and innovative character . |
| 17 | You are suggesting , tactfully , that he did n't like what he saw ( correct ) , and that if he had seen more , he would perhaps have come round to your way of thinking in these matters ( incorrect ) . |
| 18 | It is also interested in selective acquisition as a way of moving into new geographical markets or new up-and-coming product areas . |
| 19 | One way of moving towards this would be to have a Council Tax Administration Team dealing with the same geographic area as a Council Tax Rebate Team . |
| 20 | Although French technique does seem awkward to begin with , it is the most efficient way of moving on easier angled terrain and is also the basis of resting on steeper ground . |
| 21 | Serialism has as its prime objective an organized way of composing with all the twelve notes contained within the octave . |
| 22 | The boys ' behaviour is their way of protesting at these changes and competing for your affection and attention . |
| 23 | Moreover , throughout the 1980s , when opposition to European Federalism became closely associated with Margaret Thatcher , enthusiasm for Europe became a way of protesting against Conservative economic liberalisation . |
| 24 | Although basic , they are all friendly , spotlessly clean and represent the best value for money way of staying in this delightful resort . |
| 25 | However if this way of jumping from two feet to two feet had not been combined with well picked-up pas de bourrée piqués and relevés retirés as well as extremely accurate , quick ports de bras with straighter and more angled than rounded arms , they would have seemed out of place . |
| 26 | So I think we have to do them , but I think it is very important that we do not erm , er talk to the , or communicate with the other member authorities in a way that looks as if this is Wiltshire saying , well we want to find a way of flogging off this asset without worrying about what happens to the future of the service . |
| 27 | The Government 's intention was that these funds would be a way of helping with one-off exceptional circumstances affecting only a small minority of students , but the reality is that once again they have been shown to be completely wrong . |
| 28 | If the administration now seeks a coherent shopping-list of objectives , it has better find a way of accounting for these hidden benefits . |
| 29 | The simplest way of accounting for this is to assume other , unnamed children of Adam and Eve . |
| 30 | It may be that some areas are running out of money er which clearly need money , maybe there 's other areas are in surplus with the demands on them that are n't so great , so the answer may simply be to find a way of operating with greater flexibility within the total cash limit . |