Example sentences of "ways [prep] [verb] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I grew up , young people had various ways of intimating to each other a desire to become better acquainted , but playing footsie-footsie was not generally one of them . |
| 2 | Sociologists and social anthropologists now have a clearer understanding of the nature of their propositions , seeing them as attempts to provide interpretative accounts of one social group 's ways of living to another group , which has a different set of values and assumptions . |
| 3 | Maybe they have n't er been able to er find ways of talking to each other about those difficult things , and maybe they 've , they 've built up lots and lots of assumptions and resentments and disappointment , and they do n't know how to handle it , and they feel that the only thing they can do is to get out . |
| 4 | So people have to devise ways of adapting to this gap between what they want and expect from society and the means they have available to obtain these things . |
| 5 | Merton put forward five possible ways of adapting to this gap . |
| 6 | The boom in study days and conferences and in nursing literature is evidence of consumer demand for enjoyable ways of adding to professional knowledge , and there is now no need whatever to view continuing education as a chore and a duty to be carried out in isolation from colleagues and friends . |
| 7 | I can find ways of contributing to peace-making organisations or activities . |
| 8 | The second element consists of certain ways of relating to other people . |
| 9 | There are two ways of responding to that horror . |
| 10 | Now , there are a number of ways of responding to this ‘ fact ’ . |