Example sentences of "[verb] to the [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is also a section devoted to the polite ways of ‘ playing around between the classes ; you do n't have to be British to know that a great sexual attraction exists between people not like us ’ . |
| 2 | It was pleasant to see people returning to the old ways , he said . |
| 3 | Acton and Shepherd 's Bush , he said , were a long way from Islington but it had not needed the history and memory of Risinghill and William Tyndale to make headteachers alert to the damaging way in which matters of discipline , race , criminality and parental disquiet could be brought together into presentations of hot and not always accurate news . |
| 4 | Within its peer group , the young child , by interacting with others and playing childhood games , learns to conform to the accepted ways of a social group and to appreciate the fact that social life is based on rules . |
| 5 | No other form of cancer has been found to be more closely related to the Western way of life and the Western way of eating . |
| 6 | Again , according to Bernstein ( 1975 ) , Ball ( 1981 ) , and many more , schooling can have opposite effects on children according to whether children have been socialized into working-class or middle-class aspirations , and according to the actual way the schooling process is structured by the state , the teachers , and the subject-disciplines . |
| 7 | In fact , if one understands government growth to refer to the increase in the degree to which government affects the nature of the society in which it operates , it is possible to derive a variety of measures according to the different ways in which a government can influence its environment . |
| 8 | However , the real triumph was the fact that the user interface was matched to the traditional ways of working — which made it both easy to learn and rapidly accepted ( though much criticised for its lack of typographic accuracy ) by the publishing industry . |
| 9 | It was as though I had died to the old way — and yet I was alive in a new kind of way . |
| 10 | So it 's important that they 're supported throughout by senior staff , because it 's never very easy to fit into an established team who may be used to the old ways of doing things . ’ |
| 11 | You you never get to the this way did you ? |
| 12 | Author Martin Wood covers all aspects of the business , from planning , design , staff , marketing and finance to the correct way to grip utensils for spoon and fork service . |
| 13 | Mind the Lowsons stuck to the old ways in other respects . |
| 14 | By the time a local shatran was commissioned to find a suitable wife for him , he was settled and orientated to the British way of life . |
| 15 | There 's obviously been a misunderstanding there , a lack of communication or whatever , but whereas some departments have got to grips with the issue , unfortunately police wor finance working party just stuck to the traditional way , rather reminiscent of Mr 's old budget working party days , which does n't get to grips with the real needs and the real costs . |
| 16 | For Gould , accustomed to the European way of shooting birds , of which stealth is rarely a part , the task was not so easy . |
| 17 | The constraint of positive sanctions really refers to the general way in which the desire to seek the approval of others ( though , sometimes , their disapproval ) can influence our behaviour . |
| 18 | Indeed , there are important instances when the ‘ followers ’ stimulate the leader , as opposed to the other way around . |
| 19 | First , when we examine a very wide range of psychotic traits in normal people , using questionnaires that contain different kinds of item , we find that they tend to group into clusters closely corresponding to the different ways in which clinical psychosis manifests itself : in emotion , in perception and thinking , and in socially deviant behaviour . |
| 20 | Russell Reynolds has achieved the highest fee income in the British market through adapting to the British way of doing things whilst retaining an American approach to marketing and business development ; it has achieved the former as effectively as Spencer Stuart and the latter as profitably as Korn/Ferry , to produce a combination more successful than either . |
| 21 | Less tangibly , but almost of equal importance , the newer migrants may obtain advice on how to adapt to the urban way of life with its newer and more ‘ sophisticated ’ ways . |
| 22 | But instead of trying to adapt to the British way of life he rebelled against it and reverted to his African heritage . |
| 23 | As an adult , Jenny admits to the same way of coping . |
| 24 | They had to wait 20 minutes for a train to take them back the way they 'd just come from , then hire cabs to return to the Five Ways area . |
| 25 | Though explicitly Christian , ‘ Journey of the Magi ’ forms between the earlier and later work a bridge over which the reader ( with access to the gospel word ) may cross into the release of Christianity , the new birth ; but , denied that access , the speaker of the poem can only seek relief in death to escape from having to return to the old way in which he is ‘ no longer at ease ’ . |
| 26 | Now the Masai are torn by the need to go to school ( schule in Swahili , a leftover of German occupation ) and the understanding that young people who go to school are lost to the traditional ways . |
| 27 | Each story contains a different claim by Jesus that set himself against the religious leaders and pointed to the new way of Christianity : |
| 28 | Marion met him one night when he called to see her father on a matter appertaining to the permanent way adjacent to the signal box . |