Example sentences of "way of [verb] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The best way of escaping from the top-ropers is to go on one of the long classics . |
| 4 | This may be the only way of escaping from the temptation of continuing perpetual agricultural subsidy in one guise or another . |
| 5 | It had been a way of escaping from the poverty into which her family had sunk , and she knew that by working hard for long , tiring hours and helping Fred turn the mediocre business into one that was thriving and profitable she would one day be able to help her parents and her brother too . |
| 6 | This has also been a way of escaping from the serious clashes which historically have taken place between different Christian groups involved in education and which remain a distinct possibility in the multi-faith situation . |
| 7 | They must have done some good ( Cipolla points out that their principles were the same as those of the great 19th-century sanitary reformers such as Sir Edwin Chadwick ) , and yet there seems to be no way of telling from the surviving evidence whether lives were saved as a result . |
| 8 | If she remembered he was the same man whom her son had once employed , there was no way of telling from the awed reception she gave him . |
| 9 | To drive from Lascaux of the prehistoric caves in the Dordogne right across country to Valence on the Rhone is possibly not the most expeditious way of getting from the deep south-west of France to the Mediterranean . |