Example sentences of "a [adj] way [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most serious problems over credit use — sometimes an extreme manifestation of one of the general problems , such as the relationship between ignorance , high-cost credit use , and over-commitment ; sometimes something quite distinct — are too rare to show up in a quantifiable way in a sample survey such as ours . |
| 2 | Darts and snakes and ladders championships organised a bit like the ‘ world cup ’ ensures everyone of more than one game and can be a pleasant way of making a small profit . |
| 3 | The return route follows the Dales Way and involves a bit of road walking , but since the road is a backroad and sees at the most two or three cars a day , it is a pleasant way of returning . |
| 4 | Pros Everything you need in the way of FAX facilities with a pleasant way of working Cons Nothing significant |
| 5 | Do take the occasional trip on it if you can , it is a pleasant way of getting to Shrewsbury and practical if you live anywhere near the line . |
| 6 | So you thought gliding was a pleasant way of spending leisure time away from the cares and woes down on the ground . |
| 7 | They shuffle about in a rapt way to these radiant arches of sound , punctuated by the thunder of dub-style percussion . |
| 8 | It 's a polite way of saying that I 'm a nerd , ’ she shouts . |
| 9 | This is a polite way of saying that recruitment normally causes chaos in the personnel department . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , it has its place in camcorder operating techniques and there is a right way of doing it which is worth learning and practising . |
| 11 | But for today , we 're going to pretend that there is a right way of using these and you 're going to follow what I say . |
| 12 | Steve mentioned , you know , to put fifteen , twenty pounds a month into it erm and you said well we 'll come back to that later which I think on the face of it is probably er a right way of going about it cos you did n't get interrupted at that stage talking about a specific product so I think that was er that was good . |
| 13 | The first interest is to win and then to help the team who pays you and looks after you , but there is a right way of doing it . ’ |
| 14 | One of the nice aspects of a task such as that is that I think we , as professional physicists — and I 'm a physicist too erm we , as professional physicists , feel there 's a right way of doing something because it 's the way we learnt and we 've got used to , and we tend to instil this idea into other people . |
| 15 | While he went on picking up young girls , he talked in a blasé way of lust being ‘ expense of spirit in a waste of shame ’ . |
| 16 | ‘ There is a subtle way in which we are never given quite the full authority , never quite the full credit , never quite the full respect , ’ said one woman working for a big firm . |
| 17 | Capitalism and the sterner Puritan ethic are delighted with hedonism as a private way of life because hedonism encourages consumerism , and consumerism becomes the economic mode of hedonism for modern man . |
| 18 | Creating synthetic chemical structures that can reproduce themselves represents not only an intriguing intellectual challenge , but also a possible way of illuminating one of the most basic processes of a living cell . |
| 19 | Although the nerve pathways from the brain to the blood vessels and heart use acetylcholine as their transmitter at ganglia , they end in terminals which release an adrenaline-like substance , so a possible way of controlling blood pressure is to block the action of this substance . |
| 20 | We know rather little about what kind of bargains are struck at the present time although inheritance is always a possible way of ensuring that the balance of support does not tip too much in one direction , even if its use is not spoken about openly . |
| 21 | A possible way of dealing with this is to use the location method ( see 2.6.1 ) . |
| 22 | A possible way of arguing against a causal theory of justification would be to claim that we have no guarantee that there is only one way in which beliefs come to be justified , and in particular no real reason for supposing that any acceptable way must somehow be causal , so that all justified beliefs that p must be caused by relevant facts . |
| 23 | During your schooldays , were you ever given any encouragement to look at photography as a possible way of earning your living ? |
| 24 | And why are we telling them this if it 's not eligible for consideration as a possible way of depriving us of an cash ? |
| 25 | A possible way of minimising this difficulty is outlined in the following section on more general formative assessment . |
| 26 | The idea of market socialism has appealed to economic reformers in Eastern Europe as a possible way of overcoming glaring problems of bureaucratic inefficiency and worker alienation evident in centrally planned economies . |
| 27 | With opportunism , a central monitoring unit is a possible way of controlling shirking , by monitoring input performance and adjusting compensation accordingly over time . |
| 28 | ‘ A possible way of payment . |
| 29 | Road pricing has been up for discussion for some time as a possible way of alleviating the high levels of traffic congestion in many city centres . |
| 30 | Notions of similarity and the recognition of rhymes and rhythms present a possible way in which such orderings might be achieved . |