Example sentences of "way [prep] [v-ing] [pron] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Encouraging us to exist on the brink of starvation is one way of stopping us from getting too liberated . |
| 2 | For Iranians it was always a political as well as religious creed , and way of differentiating themselves from the Arabs . |
| 3 | Ankara diplomats saw his resignation as a way of distancing himself from an unpopular government . |
| 4 | In at least two areas of the city , voters were misdirected by official polling cards to the wrong polling stations — a clever way of discouraging them from voting without actually disenfranchising them — and when the final count was made , 1,000 votes were added to the Tory candidate 's total . |
| 5 | So , in fact you 're not going to do anything to them much in the way of discouraging them from removing their forest , by stopping them exporting small amounts of . |
| 6 | He loves driving , rather than seeing his car as a way of getting him from A to B , and sees his car as a status symbol , and means to power and freedom . |
| 7 | I had had nothing to read for three months , and now that we had some time to ourselves reading was a good way of distracting myself from the immediacies of life around me . |
| 8 | he had a completely different way of doing anything from anybody else . |
| 9 | I laughed , and she said , ‘ Laughing is a way of protecting yourself from the truth . ’ |
| 10 | ONE type of wild potato has developed a novel way of protecting itself from the ravages of aphids — by producing the chemical that aphids themselves use as an alarm signal . |
| 11 | This , then , is the first stage of reacting to loss : denial — shock that something bad has happened — is our psyche 's way of defending us from experiencing too great a sense of harm too quickly . |
| 12 | There was no way of preventing anyone from walking in if a room were empty . |
| 13 | To find the benefits of religion , we have to find some way of separating it from the institutions which claim to represent it . |
| 14 | She had wanted some way of freeing herself from Gareth Davis and his demands and now , with no effort on her part , she was free of him for ever . |
| 15 | Increasingly they felt German education to be a way of excluding them from the experience of industrial and urban life , from the totality of modernisation . |
| 16 | People do n't usually hit out unless they are upset or angry , so showing you understand their feelings goes a long way to preventing them from expressing that anger towards you . |
| 17 | No Hiding Place Sitting containers on pallets or bricks goes a long way toward preventing them from harbouring all kinds of pests under their bottoms . |