Example sentences of "ways [prep] [verb] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | could be seen as contrasting opposite ways of reacting to the modern era . |
| 2 | We each have our own highly individual ways of reacting to the stresses of life and of maintaining our inner harmony . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | There are two alternative ways of reacting to the stylized facts outlined above . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | He worked out there were one hundred and seventy-three different ways of getting to the library from the dining room and fifty-two different ways of getting from his dormitory to the nearest toilet , which was only a few yards from the dormitory itself . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | One of the best ways of getting to the heart of a character is to put him or her into a situation of extreme testingness . |
| 11 | I probably have n't explained that there are two ways of walking to the station . |
| 12 | On page 35 we take a detailed look at ways of describing to the teacher how to ‘ drive the program ’ and how to use it in the classroom . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Except that already it is not quite that simple , since the post-modern sophisticate is also the critic of these other , negative ways of relating to the other ; he or she is the one who diagnoses their social and psychic economies . |
| 15 | Eventually , alternative ways of relating to the social fund were put forward and Council agreed on a policy of ‘ impartial advocacy ’ . |
| 16 | Weekend conference and seminar and study group , doctoral dissertations , and communally compiled working papers toward another Annotated Index — we may agree , as I do , that in present historical conditions these are the best or the only ways of responding to the achievement of a very great , though of course imperfect , poet . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Some centres are already devising innovative ways of responding to the opportunities offered by general SVQs , and we will be ensuring a wider audience for this kind of good practice throughout the pilot . |