Example sentences of "way [prep] [v-ing] its " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE longer one party stays in power , the greater the danger that it will find ways of falsifying its record . |
| 2 | Because operations remain vulnerable to low levels of economic growth in Shell 's main markets and also because of sluggish oil prices , the company will continue to put emphasis on the cost-effectiveness of its activities in the North Sea and elsewhere , as well as looking at ways of rationalising its portfolio of assets to maintain profitability . |
| 3 | However , with Sun and other compatible players moving into the Sparc SMP market , which Solbourne has had more or less to itself for some time , the company is being forced to look at other ways of differentiating its products . |
| 4 | Rather , many contemporaries were impressed by the growing capacity of some at least of the working class to practice self- and mutual-help and they sought ways of encouraging its further development . |
| 5 | Science : When suicide can be good for your long-term healthRoger Highfield discusses new insights into the body 's ways of controlling its own development |
| 6 | This ruling allowed Armco ( one of the biggest steel producers ) to use unconventional ways of controlling its particulate levels at its plant in Middletown , Ohio . |
| 7 | Each linguistic community has preferred ways of organizing its various types of discourse . |
| 8 | If , however , the council is serious about the need for reform it must be willing to find innovative ways of enforcing its recommendations . |
| 9 | The term ‘ strategy ’ , as a way of conceptualising management actions , refers to long-term policies pursued by management and it implies , according to one common approach , that management has a choice between alternative possibilities with respect to the best ways of attaining its labour relations objectives — within the constraints set by the external environment . |
| 10 | It is something of a boost for drama teachers to have someone as eminent in education as David Hargreaves taking interest in the value of drama , but if the subject is to develop we must find ways of demonstrating its worth more effectively to more such ‘ outsiders ’ . |
| 11 | • Mazda has set up a research and development team to investigate ways of cutting its car 's full consumption by one-fifth by 1995 . |
| 12 | His was an extreme example , but the Chinese state has other ways of punishing its wayward , educated youth . |
| 13 | The scientists at Wallingford know they 'll never be able to tame the sea but they hope their new wave basin will help them find ways of making its effects less destructive . |
| 14 | It is therefore investigating ways of updating its membership system and replacing it with a more sophisticated means of holding members ' names , addresses and other information , the idea being that in future members receive only what interests them . |
| 15 | A grammatical sequence such as On his victory his opponent congratulates him can be reordered in a number of different ways without affecting its propositional content . |
| 16 | If we conceive of the least pleasant experience which is still a pleasure , then one way of quantifying its intensity would be by characterising the number of times more pleasant a pleasure is at a particular moment than that . |
| 17 | Currently , the UN as such has no way of implementing its enforcement powers under Chapter VII . |
| 18 | Has a distinctly angular way of holding its neck , which alone should suffice to distinguish from any other woodpecker seen against the light . |
| 19 | A cine film made in the 1930s of the last known thylacine , restlessly pacing its lonely zoo cage , shows an uncannily dog-like animal , its marsupial nature betrayed only by its slightly undog-like way of holding its pelvis and back legs , presumably something to do with accommodating its pouch . |
| 20 | But when it comes to playtime , each cat seems to have its own personal , idiosyncratic way of embellishing its playful interactions with its owners . |
| 21 | This was the IRA 's way of renewing its claim to a place in the political negotiations that will shortly begin in Belfast . |
| 22 | In the first place , in a style in which one of the fundamental problems had always been the reconciliation of solid form with the picture plane , the letters written or stencilled across the surface are the most conclusive way of emphasizing its two-dimensional character ; Braque has stressed this when he said of the letters : ‘ they were forms which could not be distorted because , being quite flat , the letters existed outside space and their presence in the painting , by contrast , enabled one to distinguish between objects situated in space and those outside it . ’ |
| 23 | Er that 's one way of expressing its |
| 24 | Their rule is perfect and effective at the practical level , but I could see no way of passing its benefits on , of helping or involving others . |
| 25 | The other is that Japan has , for the next decade anyway , an easy way of expanding its labour force even though population growth is slowing down . |
| 26 | As a result , Japan now wants revenge and sees peace as the best way of getting its own back . |
| 27 | AIS sees Skymaster as an important way of getting its information over to the public in an efficient , quickly updated fashion that is easily accessed . |
| 28 | It was a way of feeding its fertility . |
| 29 | This gives it a way of testing its own skills at forging links between different products . |
| 30 | And this is one of the reasons it has decided to go public — as a way of preserving its own identity and of winning itself recognition . |