Example sentences of "[noun sg] as [art] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | And shipping lines are exploring the technique as a way of stripping paint and barnacles from hulls . |
| 2 | Whereas she had seen the assessment as a way of addressing Tom 's unsettled home situation , establishing an objective base line from which she and her ex-husband could identify how their differences were affecting Tom , the EP refused to become involved in this area . |
| 3 | Robert Schuman , the French foreign minister after July 1948 who had been raised on the Franco-German border , was attracted to European unity as a way to bring a rapprochement between the two countries . |
| 4 | Ankara diplomats saw his resignation as a way of distancing himself from an unpopular government . |
| 5 | The FIS and other groups were convinced , he said , that " the sole solution to all the problems and crises suffered by the country is to adopt Islam as a way of living " . |
| 6 | Formerly considered the bane of tropical forests , perhaps in part as a way of keeping the ‘ peasant ’ economy distinct from the ( colonial ) plantation one , despite the fact that such was freely integrated in the system of exporting natural products , e.g. most of Indonesia 's pepper , coffee , coconuts , tobacco and rubber is grown thus , it is now praised , possibly too much so , as a result of the increasing romanticization of forest living , for shifting cultivation is changing . |
| 7 | The premiss of afrancesado policy was , therefore , the cessation of the patriot rebellion which made French military intervention a necessity : they consistently clung to the idea of a negotiated settlement as a way out of their difficulties . |
| 8 | The two sides accepted the need to cut the budget deficit as a way of tackling inflation , to improve living standards and to reduce Poland 's $38-billion foreign debt . |
| 9 | But developing countries with large supplies of natural gas have turned to direct reduction as a way of forcing their way into the steelmaking industry relatively cheaply . |
| 10 | However , the rationale for using this paradigm as a way of investigating perceptual units was established by Ladefoged and Broadbent ( 1960 ) who showed that the position of clicks is not reported accurately , because they are heard as displaced from their original position to the boundaries of perceptual units . |
| 11 | It is even possible that a few councillors were sufficiently worried by the prospect for them to advocate a protectorate as a way of blocking Woodville pretensions . |
| 12 | It is even possible that a few councillors were sufficiently worried by the prospect for them to advocate a protectorate as a way of blocking Woodville pretensions . |
| 13 | A drawback of being a private company is limited access to capital ‘ so we also have to look to investment income as a way to increase shareholders ’ funds for development ’ , Davidson said . |
| 14 | Appeal to ecclesiastical censure as a way of explaining the misfortunes of scientific theories is a card that can be overplayed . |
| 15 | One of his early projects was a film version of John Galsworthy 's Escape ( 1930 ) , which he proposed to the writer as a way to enable theatre to ‘ regain influence ’ over the screen . |
| 16 | She used her religion as a way of not ever speaking for herself . |
| 17 | I thoroughly recommend this course of action as a way of improving your driving and putting your badge where your mouth is . |
| 18 | From the opening of the Convention a number of MPs were determined to restrict the Crown 's revenue as a way of keeping the monarchy more dependent upon Parliament , and the fact that the revenue eventually settled on the Crown in 1690 was deliberately kept well short of anticipated peace-time expenditure has led one historian to conclude that the financial settlement " created a new type of monarchy " . |
| 19 | He loves driving , rather than seeing his car as a way of getting him from A to B , and sees his car as a status symbol , and means to power and freedom . |
| 20 | All this is combined with the resentment of ethnic minorities by those who see football as a way of reasserting their national pride . |
| 21 | If you use your card as a way to spread payments , of course , low annual percentage rate ( APR ) is more important than a fee . |
| 22 | The IMW threshold was agreed by the industry as a way of limiting the negotiations , which they faced once they were free to compete after 1 April 1990 , to manageable numbers — around 5,000 customers . |
| 23 | Ranching is seen in the industry as a way of transferring barren seabeds into productive aquaculture . |
| 24 | Colby Simpkins is one of the elect , above familial ties or mundane circumstances , like Harry in The Family Reunion and Celia in The Cocktail Party — although Eliot has on this occasion eschewed the Furies or martyrdom as a way of emphasizing Colby 's difference from those who are content with a secular existence . |
| 25 | It could mark the beginning of a new North-South confrontation that replaces the old East- West confrontation as a way of organising global relations . |
| 26 | If Foucault proposes the philosophy of the phantasm as a way for the historian to produce the meaning-effect of the event while still doing justice to its singularity , it also offers a way of thinking through some of the paradoxes that we have encountered in the problematic conceptualization of history . |
| 27 | Kelly defined a construct as a way in which two things are seen as alike and yet are different to others . |
| 28 | In recent years , however , the Child Poverty Action Group has made considerable use of judicial review as a way of attacking what they see as faults in the social security system , and this has to some extent overcome the barriers to the use of judicial review in this area . |
| 29 | But the second proposal seems to contemplate an expanded role for judicial review as a way of controlling government activity ; and increasing the sources of information available to the courts in the way contemplated by the first proposal might so change perceptions of the judicial role that it , too , would lead to an expanded conception of the role of judicial review . |
| 30 | That cost , according to Brian Foster of Securitag , a company which installs security systems , varies from £2,000 to £60,000 depending on the size of the store , but Foster admits it is not so much ofa cure for theft as a way of changing its focus . |