Example sentences of "this method of [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A major reason for a manager to understand something about statistics ( and to overcome his fear of numbers ) is to enable him to cope with other managers who use this method of proving a point or presenting a case . |
| 2 | Many wars have been started or sustained by the exploitation of religious beliefs , but even if this method of prolonging wars could be removed by a rationalised attitude to ‘ god ’ and religion , it does not necessarily follow that wars would never be started , but nevertheless they might well be greatly shortened . |
| 3 | It would be startling if the mere fact that the defendant invoked a Community law defence , with sufficient substance ( but no more ) to escape rejection under the narrowly drawn principle of acte clair , should be capable of itself of excluding this useful jurisdiction , thus providing encouragement to those seeking to profit from law-breaking activities to adopt this method of prolonging what may prove to be a source of illicit profit . |
| 4 | This method of reclaiming the dead , we may note in passing , survives in modern archaeology . |
| 5 | This method of catching fish was an early form of modern-day trawling . |
| 6 | This method of implementing open-loop control is shown Schematically in Fig. 8.4(a) . |
| 7 | Subscriptions and students ' fees were not adequate to provide a properly staffed establishment , and the choice made of this method of financing the College , in preference to direct government funding ( which would have had to be much greater than the government grants received from 1795 to 1813 ) was to hamper the growth of the College well into the present century . |
| 8 | This method of financing old age is widely practised through the media of private insurance and occupational superannuation as well as that of statutory National Insurance . |
| 9 | This method of delimiting senses will be confined to sense-spectra . |
| 10 | The integrity of this method of labelling the meal has been well established by incubation of labelled scrambled egg with simulated gastric juice at 37°C and monitoring the rate of release of the label into the liquid phase . |
| 11 | In spite of these drawbacks the questionnaire method is efficient and quite economical , and the national clearinghouses , particularly the UK one , are moving towards this method of gathering information . |
| 12 | ( This method of counting courses assumes that the same HNC on offer in three different centres counts as three available courses . ) |
| 13 | They saw — and no doubt often found in their own homes — that this method of buying , if properly used was a godsend to thousands of people , especially to young couples setting up their first home and families moved from old houses or furnished rooms to new estates and towns . |
| 14 | This method of constructing a release enables the editor to assess the importance of the story at a glance . |
| 15 | This method of operating the break-clause may be advantageous to the landlord in that he may delay the service of a section 25 notice until he is in a position to establish a ground of opposition to an application for a new tenancy . |
| 16 | Certain vegetables do not have seeds or go to seed so this method of determining ancient people 's diet is an important source of historical information . |
| 17 | This method of riding is less tiring for the horse and less risky . |
| 18 | A potential drawback of consecutive spill is that , while this method of handling synonyms can be effective in some circumstances to retrieve records that are held in a file , it is not a good method of dealing with records that are not in the file . |
| 19 | From the first example you should have found This method of setting out sets was thought out by a mathematician named Venn , who gave his name to the " Venn diagram " . |
| 20 | One of the great advantages of this method of proceeding is that we can guarantee a debate about Scottish questions . |
| 21 | This method of calculating an average is favoured by the hotel and catering industry as it can show the trend over a period of time and eliminates the effects of seasonal fluctuations . |
| 22 | We shall return to this method of controlling inflation in Chapter 7 where the major anti-inflation and anti-unemployment policies are outlined . |
| 23 | The government after 1980 chose not to use this method of controlling bank lending and hence the figure for special deposits in Table 16.2 is zero . |
| 24 | Consequently , you should avoid using this method of sending characters to the printer unless you really need to . |
| 25 | Invasion of property in the form of the appropriation of put-out materials attracted regular attention as this method of organising manufacture spread . |
| 26 | Because database systems require fast retrieval , this method of organising data is unlikely to be appropriate , apart from , perhaps , the storage of historical or back-up files . |
| 27 | This method of looking at cultural objects , developed chiefly by German and American scholars at the turn of the century , assumes in its extreme form that complex and exotic techniques can only be invented once in the history of mankind . |
| 28 | Hunches these may have been , but they were almost always right — critical theory may not have the language to describe this method of discovering homosexually-relevant material , but as a subcultural practice , a particularly attuned set of decoding skills , it undoubtedly exists , as I and any other gay person can testify . |
| 29 | When the birds are familiar with this method of feeding , a trap door is sprung and the occupants of the cage are disposed of humanely . |
| 30 | Though we have begun by stating that some consonances are stronger than others , the difference is not striking , and for the sake of simplicity we intend to regard them as equal for this method of creating harmony . |