Example sentences of "way [prep] [verb] [prep] 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 | We have a number of ways of dealing with the elderly in Western societies . |
| 5 | ‘ PROFIT , moreover , seeks to find better ways of dealing with the existing uncertainty , as well as ways of obtaining ultimate knowledge from seismic and well data . ’ |
| 6 | Republic of Algeria radio reported on Aug. 7 that the Palestine National Council ( PNC , the Palestinian " parliament in exile " ) would convene in Algiers in September to " look into ways of dealing with the new peace initiative " . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | In the local elections of 1981 a number of Labour Party manifestos highlighted economic issues , and suggested ways of moving beyond the traditional approach to local economic strategies . |
| 9 | Jean Grimshaw looks at some of the ways in which feminists have tried to conceptualise what it is for a woman to be autonomous , and the relationship between these conceptions and philosophical ways of thinking about the human self . |
| 10 | In this paper , I want to look at one kind of way in which some feminists have tried to conceptualise what it is for a woman to be ‘ autonomous ’ , and at the implications this has for ways of thinking about the human self . |
| 11 | The male-orientation of the deviancy literature is almost certain to have precluded the study of certain patterns of behaviour which constitute deviant ways of behaving for the female half of the population . |
| 12 | Eventually , alternative ways of relating to the social fund were put forward and Council agreed on a policy of ‘ impartial advocacy ’ . |
| 13 | So the shore-line creatures adopt several different strategies for survival ; and animals from very different phyla — notably coelenterates , molluscs , crustaceans , and echinoderms — have found ( various ) ways of coping with the intertidal zones . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The librarian had also found the committee helpful in a number of ways by going beyond the narrow terms of the funding itself . |
| 16 | The situation basically is that I am confident I can come to accommodation with Norfolk from my way of thinking as the neighbouring Highway Authority , those the people we 've got to er to make certain are on site , I 'm sure , I 'm confident enough to do that . |
| 17 | Major changes in the way we conceptualize Nature certainly took place at this time , but historians now suspect that the emergence of Darwin 's theory should not be treated as the only watershed dividing the old way of thinking from the new . |
| 18 | Thirdly , the model suggests one way of accounting for the peculiar nature of mathematics , computing and language , as the disciplines which constitute our stances in and towards the world , and for the way they relate to other disciplines , both servicing them at a mundane level and pervading them at a profound level . |
| 19 | Buy BT as a way of plugging into the potential benefits of recovery — such as rising telephone call volumes — without taking undue risks . |
| 20 | He sounded almost like the gentlemen who brought their horses to be shod at Samson 's smithy , except for a slight foreign way of leaning on the wrong part of the words . |
| 21 | Social activities Provided that they do not stop you going to bed at the proper time , social activities are a very good way of adjusting to the new time zone , particularly if they enable you to spend time out-of-doors in natural daylight at the times recommended in Table 11.2 . |
| 22 | This has also been a way of escaping from the serious clashes which historically have taken place between different Christian groups involved in education and which remain a distinct possibility in the multi-faith situation . |
| 23 | I do n't think anybody can agree , there is , there is perhaps a better way of looking at the current formula , but I 'm just a little bit concerned having read this report and seen the purpose , about the way that er , the A C C are , are pressing for the |
| 24 | Figure 4.1 suggests one way of looking at the emerging relationships . |
| 25 | In the quantum mechanical way of looking at the gravitational field , the force between two matter particles is pictured as being carried by a particle of spin 2 called the graviton . |
| 26 | Their way of looking at the exterior world , the means they used of recording their ideas about it , even their concept of what a painting was , all these things were different from anything that had gone before them . |
| 27 | ANOTHER way of looking at the magnetic quantisation of Figure 3 is shown in the energy band diagram ( a ) . |
| 28 | In our near-sighted way of looking at the stratigraphical column , we tend to forget that these recent events , if considered on the normal geological time-scale , were virtually instantaneous and certainly catastrophic . |
| 29 | They must have done some good ( Cipolla points out that their principles were the same as those of the great 19th-century sanitary reformers such as Sir Edwin Chadwick ) , and yet there seems to be no way of telling from the surviving evidence whether lives were saved as a result . |
| 30 | If she remembered he was the same man whom her son had once employed , there was no way of telling from the awed reception she gave him . |