Example sentences of "way [prep] looking [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 In this way of looking at the economy , wages seem to be determined by forces as inevitable as mathematics , and if wages were low this was no doubt unfortunate , but there was nothing anybody could do about it , any more than it would be possible to change the laws of gravity .
2 The second way of looking at the distribution of coin hoards is to plot their geographical positions on a map .
3 But modern westerners ( and those inspired by European culture ) combine this way of looking at the world with advanced technology , enabling them to make huge changes , quickly .
4 Many scientists saw at once its far-reaching implications and a whole spate of major papers were published in 1967 and 1968 , which quite suddenly added up together to make a completely new way of looking at the Earth 's main working parts : Plate Tectonics .
5 For the most part it consists of a series of simple techniques combined with a new way of looking at the subject .
6 ANOTHER way of looking at the magnetic quantisation of Figure 3 is shown in the energy band diagram ( a ) .
7 Rene/ Descartes , the I7th century French philosopher , gave the world the expression Cogito , ergo sum ( I think therefore I am ) and endowed the French with an invincible confidence in they very own way of looking at the world .
8 Whatever the merits of such an exact parallel between the chakras of the human body and the landscape , this way of looking at the countryside seems to enable certain insights into subtle geography to be obtained that might otherwise be missed .
9 Such descriptions may have truth in them , but I think there is yet another way of looking at the situation .
10 However , there is another way of looking at the phenomenon of life , and that is in terms of consciousness .
11 Talk of ‘ processes ’ and ‘ states ’ commits us to an inappropriate way of looking at the matter — as though the only difference between understanding understanding and understanding sweating is that in the case of understanding understanding our gaze is directed inwards .
12 The end product of psychedelia was not a new way of looking at the world and a liberation of the mind , but rather a lot of shit concept albums in the 1970s and an inaccurate belief on the part of pop stars that they were somehow important .
13 In other words , I was trying to establish whether religion had been important enough in the interviewees ' childhood ( at least , as it was now remembered ) for it to be mentioned , without any prompting on my part ; and then , I would try not to prejudge what the interviewees thought was involved in religion , but let them decide what aspect would come out ‘ naturally ’ — whether they would talk about the institutionalised churches , private prayer , a personal relationship with God , a way of looking at the world or the ultimate meaning of their existence .
14 ( Another implication of this way of looking at the origin of moral talk is that the child will learn her primary duties in familial contacts with her parents , close friends , relations , and the family pets .
15 In a volume commemorating Darwin 's death , I have tried to show how his way of looking at the behaviour of individual plants in nature can be extended .
16 This seems a more satisfactory way of looking at the possibility that a society may be an organic unity than Moore 's principles allow .
17 What 's another way of looking at the situation ?
18 Such brief ‘ thumb-nail ’ sketches do give some indication of the essence of sociology , but ultimately it is both necessary and perhaps more fruitful to emphasise that the most important and distinctive feature of sociology is not so much what is studied but how it is studied , i.e. it is important to indicate what is the particular perspective of sociology , its distinct way of looking at the individual and society .
19 Figure 4.1 suggests one way of looking at the emerging relationships .
20 The High Court of the Trust Territory rejected this excessively formalistic way of looking at the agreement and preferred to examine the underlying concepts .
21 One way of looking at the effects of the kind of industry they work in is to see whether black people and whites living in the same area — inner cities for example — have similar rates of unemployment .
22 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 .
23 Capra ( 1979 ) , himself a physicist , has argued that most physicists , despite the discoveries of twentieth-century physics , are trapped in a pre-twentieth-century way of looking at the world .
24 But inspiration came in the form of a fellow photographer he met at the printers , who suggested a different way of looking at the images .
25 So , if this way of looking at the world is what starts up that vital fire in your imagination , then you would do well to take Watson 's top and have as your hero someone imbued with plenty of ordinary commonsense .
26 Another way of looking at the process is to regard the member of the pair of particles that falls into the black hole — ; the antiparticle , say — as being really a particle that is traveling backward in time Thus , the antiparticle falling into the black hole can be regarded as a particle coming out of the black hole but traveling backward in time .
27 There is the sense here that reason is more than the sum of its parts , and that the serious pursuit of truth can , over time , generate a way of looking at the world and an approach to forming judgements on it that stands over and above any particular truths that may be assimilated on the way .
28 Their way of looking at the exterior world , the means they used of recording their ideas about it , even their concept of what a painting was , all these things were different from anything that had gone before them .
29 A useful way of looking at the development of groups was made by B. Tuckman in 1965 .
30 In a sense the breakdown of a problem is always based on the old way of looking at the problem .
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