Example sentences of "[verb] a [adj] way [prep] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Initially , the steel toecaps of industrial boots provided a good way of savaging your opponent . |
| 2 | When the children help , they sometimes suggest a different way of arranging things and even a small alteration can suddenly make a forgotten toy more popular . |
| 3 | Perhaps so , but it seems to me that , if the experience curve is understood as reflecting the continued , planned desire for cost leadership as more is produced , the expression of the curve and the learning rate provide a useful way of monitoring cost-reduction possibilities and helping to formulate strategy . |
| 4 | Paramo 's Nevada jacket and Prima trousers provide a good way of beating the rain . |
| 5 | The next book must break new ground , provide new insights , provide a new way of looking , or perhaps even a way of re-seeing the familiar . |
| 6 | So lawyer C took on a notoriously troublesome client — and indeed , found a satisfactory way of handling the client himself , as well as his many debts and difficulties ! |
| 7 | The problem of evil has exercised people in all three traditions of historical monotheism and nobody has ever been able to find a logical way of reconciling it with the concept of the one God . |
| 8 | I have no difficulty using gesso or in laying and burnishing the leaf , but I am unable to find a suitable way of laying paint onto burnished leaf . |
| 9 | On a more general level it is possible to say that since painting is in any case an art of illusion , in so far as it conveys sensations of volume and depth on a two-dimensional surface , it was easier for the Cubists to break with traditional conventions , to push the ‘ illusion ’ one step further , and to invent a new pictorial language , than it was to find a new way of dealing with the solid , tangible forms themselves . |
| 10 | He added members wanted the Government to find a new way of paying for NHS work , and hoped a joint inquiry by the Department of Health and British Dental Association would come up with a solution . |
| 11 | Malcom Green and Robin Perutz at Oxford University have harnessed matrix isolation work in the quest to find a simple way of activating methane , a process of enormous commercial interest because of the vast stores under the North Sea . |
| 12 | Precisely because the composition of phonolexical sets can not be specified on phonological grounds , it is difficult to find a principled way of specifying the lexical input to the variable ( u ) ; eventually eighteen words were assigned to the set simply on the basis of observation . |
| 13 | I 'd have turned it down without asking except I thought you might be interested — ah — because … ’ he shrugged , unable to find a tactful way of saying that this was the best offer she would get all year . |
| 14 | If you 're taking a holiday more than a three-hour drive from here , he thought , I 'll have to find a different way of doing this . |
| 15 | But classifying animals and plants , living and fossil , is more than just an attempt to find a convenient way of slotting them into different categories , like stamps in a stamp album , for neatness and convenience . |
| 16 | Armed with this hypothesis , they set out to find a convenient way of reducing carbon monoxide that might avoid the expensive catalysts and energy intensive conditions of Fischer-Tropsch chemistry — an industrial process that converts carbon monoxide and hydrogen synthesis gas to mixtures of organic compounds . |
| 17 | Military pressure on Mr Gorbachev to find a quick way of ending the war stems from a bigger worry : that , by letting America take over conduct of the war , the Soviet Union will see its influence suffer in the region , especially if American troops stay on once the fighting is over . |
| 18 | But such is the skill of the production that in the end you just suspend disbelief , accept that you are absorbing a different way of looking at the world and take whatever comes . |
| 19 | Sam , apparently , has a strange way of showing gratitude . |
| 20 | Your queen has a nasty way of scratching her nose , and your angel is in a sulk . |
| 21 | In Committee , the Minister invariably points out that Parliament has a simple way of dealing with orders and that we should stick to it . |
| 22 | The Profitboss has a simple way of establishing the contribution link to profit . |
| 23 | But he is derisive about English defenders and he has a descriptive way of saying so . |
| 24 | Life has a funny way of sorting itself out . |
| 25 | If impressing less as a ‘ big ’ personality she nevertheless has a vivid way of making the developments real and present : for example , at the start of the Act 2 solo , ‘ que viens-je d'entendre ? ’ , she conveys , still more than Baker , the sense of the overheard talk having happened a minute or two before . |
| 26 | This example of one case discussion , lifted out of a sequence of weekly meetings , may appear a laborious way of achieving small gains , consuming time which teachers , pressed as they are , can little afford . |
| 27 | In other words , we must identify a unique way of representing each possible pattern of communication a process might exhibit . |
| 28 | True , it seemed a curious way of implanting poison but — He pulled himself back to sanity . |
| 29 | ‘ Kirkby boasts lots of football teams of all ages and this seemed a good way of drumming up cash . ’ |
| 30 | For practical reasons , fieldworkers adopted a policy in these cases of knocking at the door of the nearest house of a similar type ; since the survey was based on geographical area and housing type , this seemed a reasonable way of obtaining data from a range of addresses while conserving time and resources . |