Example sentences of "as [art] [adj] way [prep] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Butlin version of the holiday camp prospered in a climate of campaigning for holidays with pay and in a period before packaging had been fully developed as the major way of selling holidays and travel . |
| 2 | If there really was a conspiracy against Gloucester , his subsequent actions can be seen as a matter of self-defence , culminating in his seizure of the throne as the only way of achieving long-term security from Woodville recriminations . |
| 3 | If there really was a conspiracy against Gloucester , his subsequent actions can be seen as a matter of self-defence , culminating in his seizure of the throne as the only way of achieving long-term security from Woodville recriminations . |
| 4 | Why then did the RCM insist on fostering as the only way of emptying Dovercourt and Pakefield ? |
| 5 | The French have tended to exploit a philosophical idea of reconciliation as the only way of restoring German acceptability inside Western Europe . |
| 6 | Siobhan resents the fact that the mainstream broadcasting industry is presented as the only way of working . |
| 7 | He justified the ‘ legal regulation of the problem ’ as the only way of heading off the likelihood of spontaneous ‘ defensive actions of the enraged population ’ , and claimed the German government had been compelled ‘ by the idea of being able , through a once and for all secular solution , of perhaps creating a basis on which the German people might possibly be able to find a tolerable relationship with the Jewish people ’ . |
| 8 | Although many politicians have not been prepared to accept the thorough-going case for pricing advanced above , many have , under the practical pressure of public spending constraints , been prepared to accept charging as a supplementary way of raising revenue , or to see charges increased as the only way of preserving a service . |
| 9 | The conservative aspect of the new bourgeoisie is that it establishes a more durable form of capitalism , but as Becker does not see socialism as the only way of ushering in progress , this does not present a problem for him in his depiction of the new corporate bourgeoisie as promoters of development . |
| 10 | In some circumstances , however , a teacher would be foolish to risk leaving it at ( 2 ) ; it may well be necessary to adopt ( 3 ) as an instruction to the class as the only way of engaging their interest . |
| 11 | Others take a more philosophical view , regarding the provision of extra help as the best way of maintaining their independence , or at least avoiding any further loss of independence . |
| 12 | Since the dominant conception of pollution control work is utterly pragmatic , doing the job is regarded as the best way of learning the job ( cf. |
| 13 | As a result , Japan now wants revenge and sees peace as the best way of getting its own back . |
| 14 | Even so , like a dog at the bone , The Times was driven to search out the foreign disposition of the garotters , accusing them of abandoning the traditional civility of the traditional English highway robbery : ‘ Without the old challenge and parley in use among highwaymen , your garotter knocks a man 's head against the kerbstone as the best way of getting at his pocket . ’ |
| 15 | This strikes me as the best way of getting a real working knowledge of computers . |
| 16 | He does n't defend it as the best way of getting the correct decision , he does n't defend it , or he does n't solely defend it that way he does n't defend it either on the idea that people have right to be tried by their peers for example which is the most likely defence now , but he defends jury service on the grounds of the effect it has on the jurors which is quite a novel erm . |
| 17 | The Hinches see sponsorship through ActionAid as the best way of helping a child and his or her community . |
| 18 | If , for example , lean-burn engines are developed by Western manufacturers as the best way of cutting carbon dioxide emissions by the world 's rapidly increasing stock of vehicles , is the technology passed on free of charge to developing countries beginning a build-up to mass production from their own motor industries ? |
| 19 | The rich see population control as the best way of conserving their environmental well-being . |
| 20 | The congenital apathetic inefficiency bred by the regime as the best way of keeping people down had also delayed the demolition process . |
| 21 | If there are many siblings who must compete for the mother 's favours , and if no one of them can exclude the others , each will probably demand equality as the next best thing to preference , and most definitely as the best way of preventing the preference of others . |
| 22 | It has been argued that the sexual division of labour between husband and wife may be interpreted as the best way of maximising the welfare of the working class family , and certainly the struggle for a family wage benefited working class families to the extent that it raised the wages of the male breadwinner . |
| 23 | The Department of Transport has come up with two alternative by-pass routes as the best way of relieving the heavy traffic using the A forty Green Road Roundabout junction at Headington . |
| 24 | It was encouraging that the wives saw themselves as having an increasing role to play and it was equally encouraging that in many cases they saw training courses as the best way of acquiring new skills and knowledge . |
| 25 | Another reason for American houses ' strength is the spread of ‘ book-building ’ as the preferred way of selling international equities . |
| 26 | for the central ideas of structuralism and post-structuralism do indeed spring from the study of language as the human way of ordering experience . |
| 27 | Barton worked a sixteen-hour day , which began with careful , detailed consideration of the trading figures and key ratios for every one of his forty-three major shops and the output of both factories , and continued , usually by helicopter , with a detailed aerial survey of a particular area as the quick way of identifying new sites , interspersed with unheralded descents on the manager of any shop he took a fancy to visit . |
| 28 | Librarians who think this way , and who dispose of books by the skipful because they do not look appealing enough for ‘ face-on ’ display , have the excuse that almost all publishers regard the dust-jacket as the main way of selling a book . |
| 29 | It 's obvious Peter has got himself into money difficulties and hit on the idea of producing a fiancée in order to get his hands on his share as the quickest way of solving them . |
| 30 | Encouraging dialogue between individual parent and individual teacher so that each child can be given specific help and encouragement , discussion between parent and teacher being seen as a better way of evaluating progress than a written report . |