Example sentences of "ways of [verb] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | could be seen as contrasting opposite ways of reacting to the modern era . |
| 2 | There are two alternative ways of reacting to the stylized facts outlined above . |
| 3 | However , as Fillmore ( 1975 ) notes , these have two kinds of referent : they can either refer to the entire span itself , as in ( 56 ) , or to a point within the relevant span , as in ( 57 ) : ( 56 ) Tomorrow is Wednesday ( 57 ) Dennis hit Murphy with a baseball bat yesterday Note that the deictic words yesterday , today and tomorrow pre-empt the calendrical or absolute ways of referring to the relevant days . |
| 4 | In prose writing , the discrepancy between identity of meaning and identity of sense is well exemplified in the device of so-called elegant variation : we have already noted , for instance p107 ) , Henry James 's use of non-synonymous expressions : " the poor young man " , " this personage " , etc , as ways of referring to the same person . |
| 5 | ‘ You should know by your age , Lachlan , there 's more ways of getting to the other side of a mountain than by chewing through it . |
| 6 | And as family members we have seen and felt at close hand some of the most intense pains and also pleasures of later life : on the one hand , bereavement and loss , but on the other , the continued mastery of old skills , the creation of new pursuits and interests , the discovery of new friends and of new ways of contributing to the wider community . |
| 7 | Eventually , alternative ways of relating to the social fund were put forward and Council agreed on a policy of ‘ impartial advocacy ’ . |
| 8 | They were drastically reduced in 1985–86 because of overtime cuts forced upon the police by the local police authority as one of the ways of responding to the budgetary impact of rate capping . |