Example sentences of "a [adj] way [prep] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He added : ‘ One ca n't imagine a feebler way of making a protest or trying to gain by showing A Clockwork Orange … at four o'clock in the afternoon at the Scala cinema on a weekday and advertising it as a surprise item . ’ |
| 2 | Do take the occasional trip on it if you can , it is a pleasant way of getting to Shrewsbury and practical if you live anywhere near the line . |
| 3 | The return route follows the Dales Way and involves a bit of road walking , but since the road is a backroad and sees at the most two or three cars a day , it is a pleasant way of returning . |
| 4 | So you thought gliding was a pleasant way of spending leisure time away from the cares and woes down on the ground . |
| 5 | Pros Everything you need in the way of FAX facilities with a pleasant way of working Cons Nothing significant |
| 6 | Darts and snakes and ladders championships organised a bit like the ‘ world cup ’ ensures everyone of more than one game and can be a pleasant way of making a small profit . |
| 7 | But one step down from this grander world view at a more personal level , we all have a simpler way of seeing things which still vigorously affects the shape and colour of our personalities and what contributions and responses we bring to our relationships with others . |
| 8 | A simpler way of looking at laicisation might be to say that institutional Christianity has lost some of its functions : most education passes from church to state ; so too do medicine , welfare and human counselling . |
| 9 | However , there is a simpler way of comparing variations in readers with variations in readings . |
| 10 | A simpler way of describing its position would be to say that it is part of the transitional zone between the Oriental and Australian regions . |
| 11 | If there 's a simpler way of recording guitars , Bryan and Keith have n't found it yet . |
| 12 | Erm there may be a simpler way of doing it . |
| 13 | Less than a mile from the turning for the Lac de Bious-Artigues , but on the other side of the road , is a lazier way of gaining real altitude and tremendous views , by taking the cable-car ( it goes regularly only in summer and during the skiing season ) up to the Pic de la Sagette , at almost 7,000 feet . |
| 14 | It 's a polite way of saying that I 'm a nerd , ’ she shouts . |
| 15 | This is a polite way of saying that recruitment normally causes chaos in the personnel department . |
| 16 | But for today , we 're going to pretend that there is a right way of using these and you 're going to follow what I say . |
| 17 | Steve mentioned , you know , to put fifteen , twenty pounds a month into it erm and you said well we 'll come back to that later which I think on the face of it is probably er a right way of going about it cos you did n't get interrupted at that stage talking about a specific product so I think that was er that was good . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , it has its place in camcorder operating techniques and there is a right way of doing it which is worth learning and practising . |
| 19 | The first interest is to win and then to help the team who pays you and looks after you , but there is a right way of doing it . ’ |
| 20 | One of the nice aspects of a task such as that is that I think we , as professional physicists — and I 'm a physicist too erm we , as professional physicists , feel there 's a right way of doing something because it 's the way we learnt and we 've got used to , and we tend to instil this idea into other people . |
| 21 | The price cut will go a little way to alleviating the burden of VAT on bills , due to be introduced next April , a move described by Manweb chairman Bryan Weston as disappointing . |
| 22 | But he went a little way towards pacifying their incensed tour management when adding : ‘ We were beaten and have no complaints . ’ |
| 23 | During your schooldays , were you ever given any encouragement to look at photography as a possible way of earning your living ? |
| 24 | Road pricing has been up for discussion for some time as a possible way of alleviating the high levels of traffic congestion in many city centres . |
| 25 | A possible way of dealing with this is to use the location method ( see 2.6.1 ) . |
| 26 | Although the nerve pathways from the brain to the blood vessels and heart use acetylcholine as their transmitter at ganglia , they end in terminals which release an adrenaline-like substance , so a possible way of controlling blood pressure is to block the action of this substance . |
| 27 | With opportunism , a central monitoring unit is a possible way of controlling shirking , by monitoring input performance and adjusting compensation accordingly over time . |
| 28 | A possible way of minimising this difficulty is outlined in the following section on more general formative assessment . |
| 29 | A possible way of arguing against a causal theory of justification would be to claim that we have no guarantee that there is only one way in which beliefs come to be justified , and in particular no real reason for supposing that any acceptable way must somehow be causal , so that all justified beliefs that p must be caused by relevant facts . |
| 30 | The idea of market socialism has appealed to economic reformers in Eastern Europe as a possible way of overcoming glaring problems of bureaucratic inefficiency and worker alienation evident in centrally planned economies . |