Example sentences of "way of [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For instance we can suggest ways of rescheduling the payments over a longer period . |
| 2 | In short , the message of Traffic in Towns was that in order to find civilized ways of accommodating larger volumes of cars , more money could be spent on physical alteration to the area to raise environmental standards or to increase accessibility levels , or both . |
| 3 | These admit various ways of accommodating the sacred to the profane ; i.e. behaving more or less like a rational economic man . |
| 4 | seek ways of accommodating nurses special needs |
| 5 | There are a number of ways of cueing a sound tape , but the simplest way is to record a guide onto a spare track to show where each section of the music should start and end . |
| 6 | selective listening means focusing your attention on one particular feature at a time , such as intonation patterns , rhythm , sentence stress , abbreviations , specific morphemes or constructions , specific works or phrases , ways of hesitating , ways in which an audience accompanies a speaker , expressing agreement or disapproval . |
| 7 | The ordinary householder might think it normal to estimate needs , list the various ways of filling them , then adopt the cheapest options . |
| 8 | Now it has launched a series of competitions to select the best ways of filling the gaps in Britain 's armoury . |
| 9 | Oil burners are wonderful ways of filling a room with a relaxing aroma . |
| 10 | What we have in mind is instead a much smaller team which could give a national focus to the work of local or regional money management education associations , help to harmonise educational material with the needs of school curricula , spot gaps in research knowledge and seek ways of filling these , and follow its concern through into the adult world — tackling the credit information gap from both sides , by looking for ways both to spread knowledge ( for instance through the media , not forgetting — see chapter 3 — those catching the attention of women ) and to make credit use itself easier to understand . |
| 11 | Here are 12 ways of filling your boots in soccer 's dirty dozen … |
| 12 | Some ways of filling the coffers … |
| 13 | They are just ways of filling time whilst the realities of power assert themselves . |
| 14 | She never thought that she would look at emptiness and not immediately be able to think of a hundred ways of filling it . |
| 15 | Since , on principle , they could not say that lesbianism made them nervous and that the complex new demands made on them scared them , they found more underhand and aggressive ways of expressing their resentments . |
| 16 | These are two ways of expressing what is now a widely accepted notion . |
| 17 | Televised violence , however , not only teaches new and unique ways of expressing aggression but also has what is called a disinhibitory effect on aggression in general . |
| 18 | So do Humpbacks have ways of expressing the same request for the repetition of a pleasurable sonic experience ? |
| 19 | Many ways of expressing the same thought |
| 20 | ‘ He has a very strong character and poetry , painting and football are just different ways of expressing himself . |
| 21 | Language difficulty will be seen in terms of nonconformity to standard or normal ways of expressing notions and functions . |
| 22 | But these reactions are a later development when anger has begun to take the system over and commandeer all its ways of expressing displeasure . |
| 23 | John 's address stressed that the Council was to be pastoral rather than dogmatic , thus distancing himself from his advisers , and endorsing the view , condemned by Cardinal Ruffini , that the task of the Council was not to proclaim new dogmas but to find new ways of expressing the old ( see Abbott , p. 710–19 ) . |
| 24 | Moreover , the Wolof may retort that they do have ways of expressing multiple points of view and that we should attempt to understand these before dismissing them en bloc . |
| 25 | The status of daydreaming about holidays , housing and related themes as conventional ways of expressing discontent is suggested by a passage from the interview with Elizabeth Gould , an ex-fashion model . |
| 26 | Unlike [ 9 ] , these sentences do not treat the two events of shutting and clicking as separate things : in this respect , as in other respects , [ 12 ] and [ 13 ] are just different ways of expressing the same sense as [ 3 ] . |
| 27 | Correspondingly , we will suggest , there is , for any text , a number of different ways of expressing ‘ the topic ’ . |
| 28 | Their disagreement would be over ways of expressing ‘ the topic ’ . |
| 29 | There are informal ways of expressing the topic , even in conversational discourse . |
| 30 | If there are , as we have already argued , a potentially large number of different ways of expressing ‘ the topic ’ of even a short written text , how does the analyst determine which is the one correct expression of the topic for the text ? |