Example sentences of "way [prep] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The correct way for approaching the actus reus in relation to cheating was laid down in Doukas and approved in Cooke : ( a ) was there an article for use in cheating ? ( b ) did the accused deceive another ? ( c ) did the accused obtain by that deception ? ( d ) was there dishonesty ? ( e ) was " the obtaining … , wholly or partially , by virtue of the deception " ? |
| 2 | The £2.3m programme of work inside the magnificent building will pave the way for restoring the civic HQ as a major public attraction . |
| 3 | Although 618 remained a prototype , it paved the way for rebuilding the remaining railcoaches as one-man cars , including this one as OMO car 13. ( left ) |
| 4 | It is n't quite so quick to use as the knobs of a panel-mounted set as there is no way of rotating the full MHz figures separately from the decimals ( it takes my fingers well over 150 twiddles to get from 118,00 to 136.975 Mhz ) , but there is a twenty-frequency memory bank , and you can cycle quickly through the stored frequencies . |
| 5 | Doctors concentrated on the best way of achieving the healthy development of women 's reproductive systems and in so doing elevated women 's capacity for reproduction into a moral and social duty . |
| 6 | Are we not being taught the lesson that parents want independence for their schools — whether or not they are in the state sector — because that is the best way of achieving the best possible education for children in Ealing , Cleveland and everywhere else ? |
| 7 | A simpler and more pleasant way of achieving the same end was to use jade vessels for food and drink . |
| 8 | There is another way of achieving the same ends but with your favourite programs as opposed to those from a single publisher , and that involves the use of a ‘ manager ’ such as Caxton 's Memory Shift which lets , say , Wordstar , dBase and Multiplan , all co-exist in RAM . |
| 9 | In the case of planets like Venus , where surface features are obscured , this is an important way of determining the axial period and axial inclination . |
| 10 | The relationship given in ( 7.2 ) is a valid way of determining the fair sterling-dollar exchange rate only if the sterling-Deutschmark and Deutschmark-dollar relationships are already fair . |
| 11 | It would be useful to have a way of determining the fair sterling-dollar exchange rate independently of knowing whether these other relationships were equilibrium ones . |
| 12 | Is there another , more direct way of determining the electric field ? |
| 13 | CECIL therefore provides an objective way of determining the pitched of words and phrases , which could clearly be a great help , both for analysis and for language learning , but the information it provides is only raw data and must still be analysed . |
| 14 | Irony is at the same time a characteristic form of the contemporary imagination and a way of thinking the specific forms of engagement which the distractions of the everyday and the interruptions of its temporality might facilitate in television viewing . |
| 15 | As a result , the panel actually gets in the way of discovering the very information it is there to find out . |
| 16 | An effective way of calculating the additional costs relating to plant and labour , which can usually be treated together , is to identify an undisrupted part of the project . |
| 17 | What it does offer is a way of calculating the probable size of the error in estimating that value . |
| 18 | The question for a public inquiry is whether that is a sensible way of calculating the direct benefit . |
| 19 | And she had a sure-fire way of handling the tough Northern audiences . |
| 20 | Like other human institutions , restaurants have a way of staying the same after all manner of changes — of menu , chef , management , even premises . |
| 21 | It was predictable that the onerousness of the rating task held down response rate somewhat ( 33 per cent of a target population of 200 ) , but less predictably , great suspicion was aroused by the use of multiplication as a way of combining the two components of need for change . |
| 22 | Chamberlain had seen it as an ideal way of combining the efficient running of Birmingham with improving its water supplies , housing and city centre . |
| 23 | Figure 8.3 offers a way of bringing the phenomenological perspective on one religion into relationship with other religions . |
| 24 | Macmillan astutely side-stepped the opposition by appointing General ‘ Pug ’ Ismay , Churchill 's wartime Chief Staff Officer , and General Ian Jacob , who had been one of his deputies and then Director-General of the BBC , to use their acknowledged experience of the workings of Whitehall to produce a blueprint of the most practicable way of bringing the three Service ministries together into a single Ministry of Defence . |
| 25 | If there can be no way of guaranteeing the full representation of all views , is it possible to create structures which lessen or remove restrictions on press ‘ freedom ’ ? |
| 26 | It seems that this is the method of connection that causes the most confusion , and the correct way of connecting the secondary windings is not really the obvious one . |
| 27 | Before the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 came into force , the courts developed , somewhat erratically , the doctrine of " fundamental breach " as a way of curbing the worst excesses of exclusion clauses . |
| 28 | Anyway , ethnicity is one way of filling the empty containers of nationalism . |
| 29 | They are required to identify the best way of helping the frail and vulnerable and in many cases that will be by using the voluntary or the independent sector . |
| 30 | There were several reasons why Adenauer pursued such a line of argument : it might be a way of helping the new West German state to achieve equality in the international order ; it might placate West German annoyance over the role of the International Ruhr Authority ; and it might in time offer an opportunity for West Germany to regain sovereignty of the coal and steel producing Saar , which still remained in French hands . |