Example sentences of "way of [verb] [pron] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Encouraging us to exist on the brink of starvation is one way of stopping us from getting too liberated . |
| 2 | In at least two areas of the city , voters were misdirected by official polling cards to the wrong polling stations — a clever way of discouraging them from voting without actually disenfranchising them — and when the final count was made , 1,000 votes were added to the Tory candidate 's total . |
| 3 | So , in fact you 're not going to do anything to them much in the way of discouraging them from removing their forest , by stopping them exporting small amounts of . |
| 4 | There seemed no way of refusing him without causing him hurt . |
| 5 | And this is a way of doing it without having to , you know , log-in to er a specific tradition , but to invoke , sort of a wider , more general principles . |
| 6 | I decide to leave it ; perhaps the safest way of retrieving it without snagging is with a fish on the end . |
| 7 | Apart from making sure that permanent mains-voltage lights are installed by a competent electrician , the main way of protecting yourself against getting an electric shock from garden lights is to install an RCD . |
| 8 | I suppose that 's your way of punishing me for kissing you yesterday evening . |
| 9 | This , then , is the first stage of reacting to loss : denial — shock that something bad has happened — is our psyche 's way of defending us from experiencing too great a sense of harm too quickly . |
| 10 | There was no way of preventing anyone from walking in if a room were empty . |