Example sentences of "way of [noun] [conj] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The DAR were very snazz at what they did , which was remembering the founding fathers , upholding the traditional American way of life and torturing and killing people . |
| 2 | When a project researching into the cause of this disease carefully examined a group of men in London , recording their way of life and following their subsequent history for twenty years or until they died , the strongest risk factor for coronary heart disease was found to be smoking and the strongest protective factor the intake of cereal fibre . |
| 3 | Jana 's work is based on the belief that exploring creative expression is one way of finding and strengthening our inner power . |
| 4 | The term groupware refers to products designed to provide teams of ( what may be widely dispersed ) PC users , termed workgroups , with an easy-to-use interactive way of communicating and sharing information . |
| 5 | This device provides a safe , simple , and quick way of cutting and stripping the ends of electrical flex , first by removing the tough outer insulation , and then by baring the inner wires . |
| 6 | The IPCC is charged with producing a comprehensive review and recommendations on the state of knowledge of the science of climate and climatic change ; its likely social and economic impacts , and way of delaying or limiting such impacts . |
| 7 | We have no way of recording and replaying the sense of balance , and we can barely manage sight and sound with our present technology . |
| 8 | I think that you , without fully realizing it , have a way of ordering or arranging that internal landscape of figures that amounts almost to — clairvoyance . ’ |
| 9 | Although the language was a bit complicated you were able to understand it after a while through the actors way of raising and lowering their voices . |
| 10 | He was small , with wide , staring eyes and a way of raising and turning his head which suggested not so much caution as a kind of ceaseless , nervous tension . |
| 11 | Although electronic messages potentially offer a convenient way of negotiating and establishing contractual or other rights , their use for these purposes is evidentially hazardous . |
| 12 | In the same way sacred manuscripts were commonly bound in covers enriched with ivory , gold and precious stones as a way of marking and enhancing the reverence in which they were held ( fig. 32 ) . |
| 13 | He had learnt the proper way of cleaning and boning Sir Dermot 's shoes and " doing " his lovely old clothes . |
| 14 | Nor is there any way of inputting or editing individual records . |
| 15 | When I started to think about these things I was in a position to interpret this way of living and eating as a variation on the spending patterns of poverty described in Booth 's and Rowntree 's surveys ; but now I think it was the cheapness of it that propelled the practice . |
| 16 | In the Nineties we are rediscovering a way of living and dressing which picks up the threads of that decade and updates it . ’ |
| 17 | We renounce our own way of living and thinking to live the life of obedient faith — just as Jesus lived on earth . |
| 18 | Not historic buildings , except for his last home at Schloss Solitude , outside Stuttgart , but elderly , ordinary , slightly shabby houses , planned and built in an earlier age , that had acquired a comfortable individuality in occupation by previous occupants , and lent themselves to his own way of living and working . |
| 19 | Diminished responsibility could also be accommodated , although a general defence of mental disorder remains a better way of labelling and dealing with cases of clinical mental disorder . |
| 20 | Moreover , Lorca influenced Leonard 's world-view too ; his ‘ transcendental and far-reaching ’ ideas about life touched him : ‘ Lorca changed my way of being and thinking radically , ’ he told a Spanish journalist . |
| 21 | It is not clear what the standing rule is for hybrid actions brought by way of writ or originating summons . |
| 22 | It is a way of thinking and expressing oneself in language that is radically different from conversational speech . |
| 23 | The matrix therefore represents the cross references between what is seen and the constructs that come to be applied in making sense of the experience and , by recording these , it is able to illuminate something of a person 's way of thinking and responding . |
| 24 | JB : My background , living in the north country with rugged landscapes , had a great influence on my way of thinking and working . |
| 25 | This means changing people 's way of thinking and working , maybe breaking down fences and getting them to share information they might for some reason be reluctant to divulge . |
| 26 | Reconstructivist Post Modernism which is based on a feminine way of thinking and working will lead into the 90s . |
| 27 | Having become aware of the difference , a deep-seated bias often becomes evident as the individual concludes that his or her way of thinking and behaving is better just because it is different . |
| 28 | The first , as is implied by its name , is sympathetic and persuasive , attempting to ‘ convert the deviant ’ to the dominant way of thinking and behaving . |
| 29 | It was a way of thinking and behaving . |
| 30 | In 1904 he wrote to the poet and critic Arthur Symons : ‘ I have , however , of late years , lapsed so deeply into my early weakness for verse , & have found the condensed expression that it affords so much more consonant to my natural way of thinking & feeling that I have almost forgotten the prose effusions for the time . ’ |