Example sentences of "way [prep] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , erm , I had in mind that , is there a seconder to that ? my own view is that erm , and that goes for most of the way for dealing with the problem , but I think it would be appropriate for this committee to make it clear that erm , any extension of the maximum aggregate for the current financial year will be met by an appropriate reduction or a corresponding reduction in the expenditure for ninety four ninety five , erm and I 'm not certain that that 's absolutely clear to the public or indeed to all members of |
| 2 | Jasper thought of a way of smoking in the trains . |
| 3 | Although the government changed its way of profiting from the sale of drink mainly for negative reasons — to stave off rural unrest and reduce under-the-counter payments to civil servants — the abolition of the vodka farm looked like a victory for the common man . |
| 4 | The situation basically is that I am confident I can come to accommodation with Norfolk from my way of thinking as the neighbouring Highway Authority , those the people we 've got to er to make certain are on site , I 'm sure , I 'm confident enough to do that . |
| 5 | I think that this kind of objection rests upon a false way of thinking about the information that the input system provides . |
| 6 | ‘ It represents a new way of thinking about the media world we live in and a new way of learning the skills of active engagement and critical reflection with all forms of modern media — television , video , film , radio , print , and the glue that binds them all together — advertising , ’ says Sister Elizabeth Thoman , Executive Director of the Center for Media and Values . |
| 7 | Evolutionary game theory is a way of thinking about the evolution of phenotypes when fitnesses are frequency-dependent ; i.e. when the best thing to do depends on what others are doing . |
| 8 | This identification was one factor which provoked a major attack on the practice of International Relations which helped usher in a new way of thinking about the subject . |
| 9 | Realism , claimed Carr , is a well-established way of thinking about the world : witness , for instance , Machiavelli , ‘ the first important political realist ’ . |
| 10 | I do not pretend that these notions can do more than offer a way of thinking about the quantum world with some hope of doing justice both to the idiosyncrasy of its ways and also to the beautiful structure of the microworld which has been laid bare by the discoveries of elementary particle physics . |
| 11 | For me , it started a whole new way of thinking about the photograph . |
| 12 | Is this a good way of thinking about the problem' ? |
| 13 | Major changes in the way we conceptualize Nature certainly took place at this time , but historians now suspect that the emergence of Darwin 's theory should not be treated as the only watershed dividing the old way of thinking from the new . |
| 14 | coming round to our way of thinking regarding the capabilities of the respective forces . |
| 15 | The joy of a golden thread approach is that it provides a way of moving between the past and the very different circumstances of the present . |
| 16 | I think that the adjective moralistic is really an unkind way of protesting at the fact that she seems to continue to be interested in moral themes which are often associated with Christianity , even if she has got rid of actual orthodox commitment to Christianity itself . |
| 17 | ‘ I must believe in the Apostolic Succession , there being no other way of accounting for the descent of the Bishop of Exeter from Judas Iscariot . ’ |
| 18 | For example , Slobin ( 1973 ) has put forward a number of ‘ operating principles ’ as a way of accounting for the appearance of language forms which suggest this kind of abstract grammatical knowledge . |
| 19 | Thirdly , the model suggests one way of accounting for the peculiar nature of mathematics , computing and language , as the disciplines which constitute our stances in and towards the world , and for the way they relate to other disciplines , both servicing them at a mundane level and pervading them at a profound level . |
| 20 | And it was as crime stories , mystery puzzles , that he chose to embody his way of commenting on the follies of mankind . |
| 21 | Buy BT as a way of plugging into the potential benefits of recovery — such as rising telephone call volumes — without taking undue risks . |
| 22 | As mentioned there are few records to name the originators of many of the finest carvings of the 16th century , but approximately 400 years after Simon Werman left his name or initials on his work , 15 men and women of the village of Halse near Taunton decided on a unique and practical way of assisting with the restoration of the village church of St James . |
| 23 | He sounded almost like the gentlemen who brought their horses to be shod at Samson 's smithy , except for a slight foreign way of leaning on the wrong part of the words . |
| 24 | One way of breaking through the barriers you may have put up to appreciating yourself fully is to play Boast . |
| 25 | The Ego revels in guilt , since it is a way of clinging to the past , and hanging on to old payoffs . |
| 26 | Between them , the Waleses have established a way of operating over the last ten years that is unmistakably their own ; and quite unlike any other branch of the Royal Family . |
| 27 | In these new communities Christians have developed their own way of listening to the Word and responding to it from their own situation . |
| 28 | Social activities Provided that they do not stop you going to bed at the proper time , social activities are a very good way of adjusting to the new time zone , particularly if they enable you to spend time out-of-doors in natural daylight at the times recommended in Table 11.2 . |
| 29 | The best way of escaping from the top-ropers is to go on one of the long classics . |
| 30 | This may be the only way of escaping from the temptation of continuing perpetual agricultural subsidy in one guise or another . |