Example sentences of "way [prep] [v-ing] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Man needs to have some understanding of how this , and other atrocities , are possible as one of the major ways for avoiding them in the future . |
| 2 | Understanding how and why that struggle occurs and suggesting ways for regulating it is the purpose of the discipline . |
| 3 | The ordinary householder might think it normal to estimate needs , list the various ways of filling them , then adopt the cheapest options . |
| 4 | Here are 12 ways of filling your boots in soccer 's dirty dozen … |
| 5 | She never thought that she would look at emptiness and not immediately be able to think of a hundred ways of filling it . |
| 6 | ‘ He has a very strong character and poetry , painting and football are just different ways of expressing himself . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | These are two ways of expressing what is now a widely accepted notion . |
| 9 | … children find it easier to improvise , and therefore liberate themselves in terms of discovering and finding valuable ways of expressing what they want to say through sound , but also learning new skills through improvisation . |
| 10 | THE longer one party stays in power , the greater the danger that it will find ways of falsifying its record . |
| 11 | The Wolvercote Tongue was insured for half a million dollars , and one of the safest ways of transferring it over to England had got to be on the person of the traveller : few people would entrust such an item to letter-post or parcel-post or courier-service ; and even if they did , the insurance-risk premium would be prohibitive . |
| 12 | First , an Open Forum in October called for significantly better club facilities — notably the men 's changing rooms , and a Development Sub-Committee was constituted to look at the suggestion and ways of financing it . |
| 13 | There is an urgent need for getting out a newsletter — and finding ways of financing it — so that we have an organ of communication with each other . |
| 14 | Large diameter coils , glowing valves , brass fittings , large meters mounted in ebonite front panels , all evoke the atmosphere of the past and the article suggests ways of re-creating your own authentic or individual masterpiece — or maybe just a glorious Spiders ' Nest ! |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The important thing to remember about agencies is that they have two different ways of structuring themselves . |
| 17 | Kingman concluded : ‘ It is not necessary to specialise in such studies to be aware that our ways of structuring sentences and thoughts , and , by extension , our ways of structuring our cultural values and beliefs , affect the whole of our individual and social lives . ’ |
| 18 | The borrower had three ways of repaying his loan , either starting at once , in three months or nine months time . |
| 19 | instructors different ways of teaching you . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | And you kept trying all those complicated ways of pleasing me , but all I wanted was for you just to want me . ’ |
| 22 | Lots of ways of writing it . |
| 23 | Now when we were taught sums like that , probably erm they were written down and we had special ways of writing it to distinguish between the two cases four times and then two plus one added together , to give us four times three equals twelve , or , four times two , which is eight , add one , which is nine . |
| 24 | That is to say , it has indicated ways of redefining our problems . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | In the later Middle Ages canonists and theologians came to see with increasing clarity some of the objections to this view ; and throughout the Middle Ages Christian money-lenders had their ways of evading it . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | She had prepared so many ways of telling him how accidental it had been , how only the thought that he was safe in France had made her bold enough . |
| 29 | Theory-builders have tried to peer behind it , but none agrees on what they see , nor on ways of telling which of their glimpses is true . |
| 30 | Paul McGuinness ( U2 ) , Roger Forrester ( Eric Clapton ) , Roger Davies ( Tina Turner ) , Bill Curbishley ( The Who , Judas priest ) or myself do n't concoct ways of conning our acts . |