Example sentences of "[adj] way of [v-ing] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your " voice " is achieved in two main ways , and we discuss each in turn : the particular style you adopt and more direct ways of referring to yourself and addressing your reader . |
| 2 | For the moment , the demand to make of the nuclear powers is not for a test ban but for five-power talks and joint research to explore more defensible ways of going about their testing business . |
| 3 | However , different people have different long term objectives , and different ways of saving for them . |
| 4 | He worked out there were one hundred and seventy-three different ways of getting to the library from the dining room and fifty-two different ways of getting from his dormitory to the nearest toilet , which was only a few yards from the dormitory itself . |
| 5 | Well there 's three , there 's three different ways of going about it I guess you could do . |
| 6 | Just that it 's different way of dealing with it . |
| 7 | ‘ It was quite appalling and , had we known it was going to happen , I 'm certain we would have found a different way of dealing with our problem . ’ |
| 8 | What is the best tactical way of dealing with your client 's bad character ? |
| 9 | The last set of ideas which I want to discuss , which is not which are only partly related as a matter of fact to the erm ideas of the punctuationists , are the ideas , which , as a matter of fact my colleagues here Brian Goodwin and Gerry Webster have been particularly clear and eloquent advocates , which say in effect that if you really want to understand evolution , merely thinking about the adaptation of organisms to some kind of environment is not really an adequate way of thinking about it , because when you look at organisms , look at vertebrates for example , you 'll find an astonishing range of kinds of ways of life . |
| 10 | Today , he wrote ( and Goldberg typed ) , the glass will stand in a gallery , lit by artificial light , with no right and no wrong way of looking at it , no left and no right hand , no salvation or damnation . |
| 11 | What some women are suggesting at Fem Sap — abolishing masculine endings overnight — just seems to me the wrong way of going about it . |
| 12 | Funny way of looking at it I know but it 's sort of to give you an idea of how how the different ways you can actually do this this mechanism and brings out the er variations . |
| 13 | If you 've ever tried to explain something to somebody , that 's a very reliable way of revealing to yourself that you did n't understanding something that you thought you did understand . |
| 14 | And in coming to terms with the negative , the so-called negative , all those images become part of my dialectical way of thinking about myself . |
| 15 | Seems to be a very straightforward and sensible way of dealing with it . |
| 16 | This leaflet is intended as a guide to simple ways of looking after your mouth . |
| 17 | Liz suggested the following ways of dealing with her problems . |
| 18 | Of course , I might have known that you 'd have some clever way of dealing with everything , though . |
| 19 | Indeed , the realization should come that there are all sorts of rival positions , and that there is no absolute way of choosing between them . |
| 20 | This short book was written to help teachers and student teachers interested in researching what happens in their classrooms to identify what it is they want to investigate and the most appropriate way of setting about it . |
| 21 | It 's crucial to realise , to remember , to know , that this is not just an intriguing way of looking at our lives . |
| 22 | 4 Is the ideal way of dealing with them within my professional ambit ? |
| 23 | She would rather talk to Pilade though she knew this was only a sophisticated way of talking to herself . |
| 24 | Taking criminal motivations as ‘ given ’ seems a rather glib way of dealing with them . |
| 25 | Yes , I mean you could put it in the minutes , but also it would be quick at the next meeting of this sub-committee is after the election , it 'll be some time in June , so a quick way of dealing with it would be to put it in the bulletin , yes , but also , but I 'll put it in the minutes , as well . |
| 26 | Other people may find more low-key but equally powerful ways of working with their thoughts and feelings , gaining insight into the causes of their distress . |
| 27 | For these reasons it seems that it is not so much that people are making more of a fuss about bereavement these days but rather that the traditional ways of coping with it are not readily available , so that alternative ways of supporting people have to be found . |
| 28 | It 's a convenient unit , perhaps a useful way of thinking about it is in terms of the time that light takes about eight minutes to reach us from the sun . |
| 29 | And his ugly , noisy way of breathing through his mouth . |
| 30 | It 's a terrible way of looking at it — but , if people were n't being blown up , I would n't have written ‘ Look Mum No Hands ’ . |