Example sentences of "it [vb -s] a way " in BNC.
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| 1 | It represents a way of life , it seems , that has only really become possible in the nineteenth century , although Kepler may have approximated it . |
| 2 | But it represents a way of doing it which is not what the members of this Committee , of all three parties I suspect , want to do . |
| 3 | On the one hand it offers a way of displaying hardness , on the other it is respectable , adopted as part of the official culture of ‘ school ’ or ‘ youth club ’ . |
| 4 | This suggests a number of avenues which historical and aesthetic research might pursue , or at least it offers a way of organizing and disciplining some intuitions . |
| 5 | It is for this reason that the category of echoic verbal behaviour , described in Chapter 3 , is particularly important , since it offers a way of ‘ short circuiting the process of progressive approximations ’ . |
| 6 | It is of particular importance because it offers a way of anticipating developmental achievements : ‘ What a child can do with assistance today , she will be able to do by herself tomorrow. , |
| 7 | In short , it is that it offers a way of by-passing ‘ the awkward corner ’ , Nearly twenty years ago Professor Joan Robinson observed that the predictable consequences of the attainment of near-full employment must , if institutions and attitudes did not accommodate themselves to the new circumstances , be so far to strengthen the power of the trade unions as to prompt a vicious spiral of wages and prices ; and that it would become chronic . |
| 8 | The ROA would prefer to see the money used to increase prize money in the lower races , but when money is reallocated in that manner it has a way of disappearing . |
| 9 | Sometimes though it has a way of surfacing . ’ |
| 10 | In Anna Akhmatova 's words , it forms a way of ‘ bearing witness to the common lot ’ . |
| 11 | It forms a way of enriching description by comparing one thing with another . |
| 12 | and it finds a way |
| 13 | It defines a way for applications on networked machines to pass information between themselves , and copes with one of the fundamental problems with distributed systems : namely that networks break and machines go down . |
| 14 | It works a way round see . |
| 15 | It provides a way of helping to dismantle and correct oversimplified explanations where generalisations have been made from particular cases — or even on the basis of a single example — which clearly will not stand up to broader comparative investigation . |
| 16 | The joy of a golden thread approach is that it provides a way of moving between the past and the very different circumstances of the present . |
| 17 | Of course , the rival may fight back , but the point is not that this type of calculation ensures a successful barrier to entry , but that it provides a way of assessing what it will cost the rival to surmount the barrier to attain cost leadership . |
| 18 | For example , it suggests a way of looking at the relationship between science and technology which focuses not on the subject matter of the different disciplines , but rather the stance towards it and use made of it . |
| 19 | A further and very important advantage of this method is that it suggests a way of testing the validity of the rational expectations hypothesis itself . |