Example sentences of "way [adv prt] of [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are various ways out of this dilemma . |
| 2 | Delegates at California 's energy conference point to various ways out of this chaos , from general policy to specific action . |
| 3 | Do n't start kidding yourself that there 's any way out of that . |
| 4 | There was no other way out of that particular area except through that door , and Nell edged up to it , hesitating at the sound of the slithering , before forcing herself to turn the corner . |
| 5 | He 's typed his way out of that corner , no trouble . |
| 6 | ( Whispering to Clint ) I think we bluffed our way out of that one . |
| 7 | I doubt if you can kiss your way out of that ! ’ |
| 8 | Simon was the way out of all this mess and confusion . |
| 9 | The quick way out of all his troubles lay in his own two strong hands . |
| 10 | ‘ Her doctor feels that if he could get her to face up to whatever it was that had such a damaging effect on her as a young child , then she would … well , take a grip on life again , see Harry in a different light , enjoy him , in fact , instead of escaping into illness as a way out of all her responsibilities . ’ |
| 11 | But because it is a writer who is giving us this , and a writer at the beginning of his career , what more natural than that we should see him as writing his way out of all this , as ‘ getting it out of his system ’ as we say , clearing the ground for work that will enact triumphantly his escape , his liberation , his hope . |
| 12 | Overfunding is not a way out of this box , because at the end of the day this too works via interest rates . |
| 13 | There is still a way out of this economic mess , if Mr Gorbachev can summon up the courage to take it . |
| 14 | He thought he could talk his way out of this easily enough surrounded by educated people of a less prejudiced kind than Dr Kingsley . |
| 15 | But you 'll not laugh your way out of this one . |
| 16 | Obviously , SHe 'd have to ratbelly hir way out of this place first , if only to get Malamute on his own . |
| 17 | Alternatively , the reply could be ‘ Close your eyes and , keeping them closed all the time , try to find your way out of this room ’ . |
| 18 | Is there any way out of this semantic maze ? |
| 19 | Yet Ormrod J. follows his own logic to conclude that April Ashley , in purely biological terms , is not a woman ; yet biological terms are all that count , because there has to be someone who can perform the essential role of a woman ( remember , the essential role is to be a woman , since marriage is the relationship between a man and a woman ) : therefore , for marriage purposes , April Ashley by law is a man , and there is no marriage.45 No way out of this particular self-made legal thicket is provided , unfortunately , by an amendment to the Nullity of Marriages Act , passed into law as section l(c) . |
| 20 | The best way out of this quandary is to stop thinking about mistakes as such and to ask yourself regularly ‘ What could have gone better ? ’ |
| 21 | A way out of this double-bind is to conclude that ‘ I ’ am holding my eyes open but that ‘ they ’ have closed involuntarily . |
| 22 | The way out of this predicament was to alter their own environment through their own metabolism . |
| 23 | ‘ We know what we are capable of achieving so we 've got to dig deep and battle our way out of this bad spell . ’ |
| 24 | He told Monika there was only one way out of this nightmare . |
| 25 | One wonders how he 'll talk his way out of this one . |
| 26 | Finding lonely bits of countryside or the middle of a large field to do your shouting is a way out of this problem , as is going to a football match or a rock concert . |
| 27 | The scroll they have with them allows entrance to that Tower , and is the only way out of this room . |
| 28 | If that is so , the easiest way out of this battle of the sexes will be for firms to let employees opt out of the company scheme and use their money to buy a private pension . |
| 29 | One way out of this dead-end situation , denying as it did the possibility of a human relationship , was taken by Donne in his love-poems , where the woman is no longer on a pedestal but is discovered in bed with the poet . |
| 30 | The chief way out of this difficulty has been for empirical studies to focus on surrogates for power , rather than directly on the exercise of power itself . |