Example sentences of "a way [prep] [v-ing] [art] " in BNC.

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1 None the less , the concepts are powerful and provide a way into understanding the more detailed managerial explanations that follow later .
2 But the Government did find a way of accepting a link between the riots and social problems without bringing its main policies into the debate : namely by linking the growth of violent disorder to crime and drugs .
3 Personally I thought the fears overdone , but nevertheless I sought to find a way of transferring the operation to the private sector which would minimize the risk of industrial action .
4 The equivalence principle indicates a way of transferring the definition of a geodesic to curved space–time .
5 It is a way of experiencing the facts " .
6 For other people , who are already working , but get a certain number of weeks paid holiday a year , it 's a way of enjoying a change of scenery , becoming fit , and earning some extra money .
7 Thus it came about that Tanberg anticipated the second ingredient in the Fleischmann and Pons story : he introduced ‘ electrolysis ’ as a way of encouraging the hydrogen to come together .
8 Elections to the Länder governments are treated much like by-elections in Britain , as a way of expressing a mid-term opinion of the Federal Government , rather than as a way of choosing a significantly different local or regional government .
9 Invariant latitude is a way of defining a magnetic field line by the motion of energetic charged particles along it and is the magnetic latitude of the point where the field line intersects the Earth .
10 This was a way of defining the parish boundary , and every half mile or so gospels would be read and a cross erected .
11 We then telephoned for an ambulance , got her admitted into hospital , and finally wrote a letter of admittance as well — both as a formality , and as a way of stating the patient 's medical history , and the findings of the doctor after an examination .
12 Eventually National Socialism , which was deeply rooted in this national complex , was felt to be a way of withstanding the impact of unfettered foreign capitalism on German society , a way of organising the country 's own resources and of competing on more equitable terms — by force where necessary .
13 It showed how categorisation by discipline installations , painting , photography and so on can still work effectively as a way of organising an exhibition .
14 On one level that phrase indicates that it is the old person 's own independence which is being guarded , but on another level the idea of wanting to remain independent in old age is a way of according the proper independence to one 's children .
15 First , he has devised a way of buying the ground at less than half price .
16 Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk , making a public apology for Ukraine 's part in the massacre , acknowledged for the first time that Babi Yar had been primarily a massacre of Jews , and commentators noted that the ceremony was also a way of emphasising the government 's insistence on minority rights in Ukraine ( where 500,000 Jews still lived ) .
17 In this case ideology would simply be a way of loading the dice in one 's own favour and hence since the ground rules would obviously vary there could be no way of ever comparing two ideologies .
18 Starting 100 years ago as a way of entertaining a bored little girl on a picnic in Oxford Lewis Carroll 's story still fascinates .
19 The argument of many feminists is that the myth of the objectivity of the physical sciences has been a way of legitimizing the abuse of knowledge within a patriarchal and capitalist framework .
20 Co-operative R&D ventures are interesting in this respect because they are a way of organizing the process of innovation which promises to minimize static inefficiencies without sacrificing dynamic efficiency .
21 Either way , research of this kind can provide invaluable information , ‘ a way of evaluating the effectiveness of the organisation in conveying its goals , mission and code of conduct to the target publics upon whose support the organisation is dependent for continued existence . ’
22 Irony is at the same time a characteristic form of the contemporary imagination and a way of thinking the specific forms of engagement which the distractions of the everyday and the interruptions of its temporality might facilitate in television viewing .
23 There has been a longstanding debate between those who draw their inspiration from Marx , and those who follow Weber , as to which approach is more useful as a way of developing a sociological understanding of class .
24 And look on the feelings , etc. , as you look on a way of regarding the language-game , as interpretation ’ ; ‘ We are not analysing a phenomenon ( e.g. thought ) but a concept ( e.g. that of thinking ) , and therefore the use of a word ’ ; ‘ a concept is in its element with the language-game ’ .
25 NEXT loop is a way of repeating a section of program a set number of times .
26 The emphasis was therefore on the internal procedures of the institutions — a way of sharing the Council 's procedures .
27 I hate throwing my MKM away so I devised a way of condensing the information and patterns .
28 It would be useful to have a way of determining the fair sterling-dollar exchange rate independently of knowing whether these other relationships were equilibrium ones .
29 Elections to the Länder governments are treated much like by-elections in Britain , as a way of expressing a mid-term opinion of the Federal Government , rather than as a way of choosing a significantly different local or regional government .
30 We may see here a way of expressing the double motif of God 's transcendence and immanence discussed above .
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