Example sentences of "a way [prep] [v-ing] " 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 | Making a pressed flower picture as a way of welcoming someone into their new home is both a charming and original idea , especially if it uses flowers from their previous garden . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They discovered for themselves the value of taking note of the way pupils write of their school experience ; and by passing unnamed ‘ pupil products ’ around the staff group , they devised a way of cross-checking and standardising the assessment criteria that each was using in grading children 's work . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | A fortune awaits any engineer who can devise a way of transferring , in real time , a sequence of animation direct from a computer 's memory to video tape or film . |
| 7 | The equivalence principle indicates a way of transferring the definition of a geodesic to curved space–time . |
| 8 | He 's saying , quite specifically what his political objective is , and that is , that they can spend more revenue on their political priorities , that they choose to spend it on , and it is a way of transferring capital monies into revenue , and it 's as simple as that . |
| 9 | So the process that you have to carry out , then is to find a way of transferring your literal translation once you 've worked out word for word what is being said , into terms which mean something to a modern reader or , listener . |
| 10 | Ranching is seen in the industry as a way of transferring barren seabeds into productive aquaculture . |
| 11 | She looked on it , without telling him , as a way of exercising her voice , practising her breathing as she would have done for the stage . |
| 12 | It is a way of experiencing the facts " . |
| 13 | When he invited farmers through the Darlington and Stockton Times to consider growing mushrooms as a way of diversifying he received well over 100 calls although he was only looking for ten . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Not unless someone had discovered a way of reviving someone who had lost most of his brain matter and half of his skull . |
| 16 | What is wrong is that , as a way of ordering our affairs , it is only disorder . |
| 17 | As a way of encouraging them to return , food aid to the refugee camps has been withheld since last summer . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Alexander Bain , the inventor , devised a way of skimming raised metallic letters with a stylus attached to a pendulum . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | This was a way of defining the parish boundary , and every half mile or so gospels would be read and a cross erected . |
| 22 | Accepting the authority or leadership of a person or an institution is , for example , a way of defining one 's own identity as a member of a nation or some other group , though needless to say it is unlikely to be the only way any person will express his identification with such a group . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | A question is a way of defining what we do not know . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | But if you look at science as a way of exploring their world , a world they can structure their curiosity about aspects of the physical world , about aspects of the environment , then I think we can do it very early indeed , probably from the time children can come to school at the age of five and from reception classes onwards . |
| 27 | But if you look at science as a way of exploring their world , a world they can structure their curiosity about aspects of the physical world , about aspects of the environment , then I think we can do it very early indeed , probably from the time children can come to school at the age of five and from reception classes onwards . |
| 28 | 17.9 Even so , the various features characteristically associated with casual conversation and with formal writing provide a way of organising programmes of study . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | It could mark the beginning of a new North-South confrontation that replaces the old East- West confrontation as a way of organising global relations . |