Example sentences of "way of [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet we are talking about some of the greatest passages in English literature as well as one of the great ways of teaching in the Church . |
| 2 | could be seen as contrasting opposite ways of reacting to the modern era . |
| 3 | We each have our own highly individual ways of reacting to the stresses of life and of maintaining our inner harmony . |
| 4 | Detente and the new cold war in the 1970s and the 1980s can be viewed as different ways of reacting to the end of the golden age , the faltering of the Fordist formula for capitalist expansion , and the emergence of new policies of capitalist accumulation in West Germany and Japan , based on new post-Fordist technologies . |
| 5 | There are two alternative ways of reacting to the stylized facts outlined above . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | This desire , Hilton says , is the " love of Iesu " which is the ground of salvation whether or not man experiences the joy and love in the kind of illuminated understanding which is the special gift of the contemplative : Hilton spends some time at this stage of the book finding imaginative ways of pointing to the goal of contemplative discipline — the finding of Jesus who is lost in man 's soul as a treasure buried in a field ( c.49 ) but who also is a joy beyond all that desiring can encompass ( c.46 ) . |
| 9 | Most of the police station meeting was taken up by discussion between council officers and the police on security for the Ks and ways of dealing with the club — to which the council , just to complicate matters further , had indemnified a £100,000 loan . |
| 10 | It may well be possible to find ways of dealing with the demands of the various themes of these acts by yet greater dependence upon the hierarchical/control model — indeed it almost certainly will be — but at what level of success in terms of the educational needs of the pupils and at what cost to the motivation of staff ? |
| 11 | There are different ways of dealing with the timing of ‘ learning experiences ’ . |
| 12 | Most importantly , it demonstrated that there were alternative ways of dealing with the car without compromising on safety , access or environmental quality . |
| 13 | Even when new members are regularly taking their place on Panels , the training continues into every aspect of children 's lives , into care , physical , mental and sexual abuse , criminal activity , and ways of dealing with the variety of cases that come before them in the course of their work . |
| 14 | The APB also notes that ‘ before the role and scope of audit can be widened … a solution must be found to the financial threat posed by risks to auditing firms arising from litigation in the current legal framework ’ , but does not ‘ state a preference ’ for any of the possible ways of dealing with the problem . |
| 15 | We have a number of ways of dealing with the elderly in Western societies . |
| 16 | Should the entry qualification be to do with difficult behaviour rather than severity , or is required level of care the most important factor ? iii Low expectations and reduced social stimulation from other residents may lead to impaired performance in dementia , hastening the decline iv Segregated units may become stigmatized , and be unattractive to prospective residents and relatives v Staff recruitment may be more difficult , and staff turnover may be higher vi A unit may find itself looking after an increasingly disabled group In response to the increasing numbers of dementia sufferers in every type of service for the elderly , we saw five different ways of dealing with the integration/segregation issue . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 18 | Then , at least , the Policyholder can consider alternative ways of dealing with the loss . |
| 19 | The project will assess various possible ways of dealing with the ambiguity problem , and this will point toward areas for further research . |
| 20 | 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 " . |
| 21 | In which case , the contrary themes of common sense are perfectly adequate ways of dealing with the contradictions of everyday life . |
| 22 | For example , environmental audits of the prioritised projects of reducing chronic air pollution in Silesia and cleaning up the Baltic Sea , have shown that the most effective ways of dealing with the problems are to modernise Silesian state-owned coal burning power plants and provide sewage plants for Poland 's Vistula River . |
| 23 | Er , I gather that the last letter that had from you dated the twenty fourth of November in which you say that you will get back as quite soon to decide whether you want to apply for one of these erm erm ways of dealing with the problem or not . |
| 24 | ‘ We are studying a number of ways of dealing with the problem . |
| 25 | ‘ Let's go and find the bastards , ’ Sharpe grunted , and once he had said it he marvelled at how easy it was to slip back into the old ways of speaking about the enemy . |
| 26 | But there are other ways of looking at the question . |
| 27 | A tin of rings and a ten shilling note , a woodshed and an oak tree , an innocence , never to be reclaimed , a shock which changed even the ways of looking at the ferns and foxgloves , droopy-leaved sallow , buckthorn , white-beam and goat willow . |
| 28 | The Newson studies do , however , suggest ways of looking at the backgrounds of those children we are setting out to serve . |
| 29 | I spent the rest of the evening pretending riveted attention on the discussion while all the time practising ways of looking at the two women without them catching me . |
| 30 | There are other ways of looking at the culture of executive search firms . |