Example sentences of "way [prep] [v-ing] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since , on principle , they could not say that lesbianism made them nervous and that the complex new demands made on them scared them , they found more underhand and aggressive ways of expressing their resentments . |
| 2 | Those people that had found ways of structuring their time , of organising themselves round routines , or having particular sorts of appointments to make _ and this could take many forms , like , for example , just getting up early in the morning to play a sport game , for example , or arranging to meet other people at particular times _ those people that had got some sort of time structure in their lives and some sorts of regular activities to carry out in their lives erm tended to be a lot less severely affected by unemployment than those people that did n't have these sorts of activities , this sort of time structure . |
| 3 | Few peasants became involved , and the workers were frequently indifferent — or positively hostile , feeling that national struggles were ways of evading their own class demands . |
| 4 | Large chains , such as McDonald 's and Beefeater , spend thousands of pounds on research into frying technology and on the best ways of cooking their staple menu item , French fries . |
| 5 | If teachers ' allegiances to transmission pedagogies are to be loosened , then ways of encouraging their collaboration with colleagues must be found , along with the resources to do this . |
| 6 | The intellectually gifted find themselves teaching older children ; the educationally radical look outside schools for ways of implementing their ideas . |
| 7 | The years of battles and punishment that have not worked help them realize that keeping calm , ignoring slight misbehaviour , and rewarding appropriate behaviour are more effective ways of controlling their children and of having a more pleasant life . |
| 8 | At independence , the new governments had looked around for ways of publicizing their activities and seized upon the means to do so . |
| 9 | In the case of four elements there are five ways of evaluating their product , all of which yield the same result ( copy the argument of exercise 1.2 . ) . |
| 10 | People in poor countries lose touch with their own ways of meeting their needs — and may be too polite to tell foreign volunteers that they are compounding the problem . |
| 11 | They range in size from microscopic flatworms to the giant squid and by the process of evolution over the past hundreds of millions of years , have adapted an amazing variety of different ways of perpetuating their own kind . |
| 12 | When people stop working through redundancy , retirement or maternity they need to find other ways of getting their needs fulfilled . |
| 13 | Other varieties were made on farms in small quantities and were usually for home consumption only , but the resurgence of interest in farmhouse foods coupled with milk quotas that forced farmers to look for ways of using their surplus milk , has brought about a revolution in British cheesemaking , which is all to the good for the cheese eating public . |
| 14 | We must address the social ills that are at the root of much crime ; we must take action to divert young people into more positive ways of using their time and lives ; we need the sort of common-sense and long-term commitment shown by my right hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham , Sparkbrook ( Mr. Hattersley ) and his team . |
| 15 | In the 1980's , competitive pressures have led many British companies to look for ways of using their employees more flexibly . |
| 16 | Thus they will always be looking for ways of expanding their balance sheets provided this leads to extra profit . |
| 17 | Not only that but they do have different ways of achieving their maximum personal utility . |
| 18 | Some as young as eleven and twelve , these ‘ migrant labourers ’ went looking for work and did not always find it , turning to other less than legal ways of earning their bread . |
| 19 | Yet it is because they loved their partner so deeply that they are driven to seek ways of easing their pain and fear . |
| 20 | Organizations have developed several different ways of regarding their existing and potential customers . |
| 21 | ask teams and committees that meet regularly to suggest ways of streamlining their procedures to save time and money |
| 22 | The point is that by thinking of concepts as variables we also begin to think of suitable ways of reflecting their character by numbers . |
| 23 | Now the average buyer can choose between more than 10 ways of buying their house , ranging from foreign current mortgages and pension mortgages through to unit linked plans and endowments . |
| 24 | People have a number of ways of holding their wealth . |
| 25 | The parallel between primitives and infants is the weakest part of Freud 's model , but to suggest that there are parallels between the responses of neurotics in modern societies and some primitive culture 's ways of handling their situation is sometimes enlightening . |
| 26 | This section looks at those you are most likely to have access to and suggests ways of assessing their suitability as an aid to language learning . |
| 27 | The story , therefore , from the seventh century onwards becomes an increasingly complex one as more countries sought out individual ways of satisfying their own needs , techniques , modes of living and religious beliefs . |
| 28 | A number of schools wanted to examine practical ways of putting their vision of Catholic education , already discussed to some extent , into practice . |
| 29 | The result is that all Home Secretaries are grossly over-worked , although most will have found their own ways of keeping their heads above water . |
| 30 | But maybe there are kinder ways of keeping their numbers down . |