Example sentences of "[verb] it [prep] [adj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Experience may help you take some of these into account but if you went for a fixed fee you may have to pitch it at such a level to allow for these that it 's perhaps twice what it might be and you could lose the client . |
| 2 | Hopefully I have learned from past mistakes and now have honed it in such a way that it has become my profession . |
| 3 | Hopefully I have learned from past mistakes and now have honed it in such a way that it has become my profession . |
| 4 | It was in light of this experience of priests who were barely capable of understanding the Latin Vulgate and Mass , or who juggled with a text and expounded it in such a way as to obscure its original meaning , that Tyndale now decided to translate the New Testament into English ‘ because I had perceived by experience , how that it was impossible to establish the lay-people in any truth , except the Scripture were plainly laid before their eyes in their mother-tongue ’ . |
| 5 | It 's , it 's a very simple organism , but basically what it 's there for is to ensure the future of T four genes , and this is what i it 's doing , and presumably natural selection has er selected it in such a way that it is an optimum design as far as , as far as doing this er is concerned , because it would be in competition with mutant T fours who did it in different ways , and presumably this is the kind of T four that seems to succeed . |
| 6 | Jane continued her career — if you can dignify it with such a name — on Vogue , where the personnel manager fiercely shot at her the rhetorical question : ‘ You 've got a private income , of course ? ’ |
| 7 | The only certainty is that those nations that are victorious will write what is later termed ‘ history ’ , and will do it in such a way as to justify their actions . |
| 8 | We 've got ta be careful that in er using that sheet , we do n't do it in such a way as to bully and turn off the customer by saying , by the way , you 'd better make sure you 've done this , this , this , this and this , cos I 'm not doing it . |
| 9 | However , I would argue that it begs the question to phrase it in such a way . |
| 10 | " Every question asked requires historical information to be applied : the basic need here is for the candidate to select information which is relevant and to organise it in such a way that it is directed towards answering the specific question asked . " |
| 11 | And if you can think of that , you can repackage your particular thing not in terms of your own interests and ideas and so forth , but you can package it in such a way that it 's intriguing , or at the very least , the people who are going you hope will use it can actually see how they could use it . |
| 12 | It was ten o'clock and she had been ignoring it for half an hour . |
| 13 | It 's a matter , I think , of managing it properly , of making sure that we minimise any kind of deleterious effect on the environment , that we manage it in such a way that is tolerable and beneficial to ourselves , to our communities wherever we live . |
| 14 | The information comes from selecting data and presenting it in such a way that it is meaningful and useful to the user . |
| 15 | Technically , an assault is either the application of force to the person of another , or the threat to apply it in such a way as to cause the other to fear or apprehend that he is about to be subjected to force . |
| 16 | They describe it in such a way that it finally appears as it is , that is to say intolerable . " |
| 17 | Er in fact it was put to me as as an option by Superintendent that this could be , if this could be done er at the time er if I recall one of the reasons erm that we were n't able to do it in such a way was that there are numerous exits to the block of flats and each exit would have had to be covered by at least two armed officers we only only had in the region of twenty five officers available to us at that time in the police who were authorised to be armed and to maintain such a surveillance , erm not only would be very costly in the terms of the number of officers . |
| 18 | ‘ Maybe that is true , but I ca n't see how it will deter a side which has superior scrummaging from trying to use it in such a situation ’ , said Ken Rowlands , the WRU director of refereeing . |
| 19 | It appears to be that an agency which has an explicit power or duty to achieve a certain end , ( e.g. good race relations ) , can not exercise it in such a way as to disadvantage a person , unless that person has committed an independent breach of the common law or statute . |
| 20 | He thus pioneered in this country the discursive , witty , exuberant , and surrealist style of humour he bequeathed to his close friend J. B. Morton [ q.v. ] , who took the column over in 1924 and developed it through half a century into an art form . |
| 21 | The fourth stage involves sifting through the data and evaluating it so as to collate and analyse it in such a way as to provide useful information rather than a mass of unrelated facts or figures . |
| 22 | Furthermore he interpreted it in such a way that ‘ support ’ was not an empty word . |
| 23 | I , I think most people would feel , we 've been doing it for such a while |
| 24 | Just to highli I 'd just like to highlight a few of the principles before I comment on this dishonesty of this Government in , on the one hand enacting a major piece of legislation and on the other hand doing it in such a way that Councils 'll settle for failure because resources have not been allocated . |
| 25 | It 's only thirty-seven or thirty-eight miles to Stratford — and Lewis here once managed it in half an hour . ’ |
| 26 | Tithonus asked for immortality but he expresses it in such a way that one feels sad for him . |
| 27 | Yeah but what are we gon na word it in such a way as they 're not gon na give it ? |
| 28 | Although housework is work they say , we would have to turn the ideology of our culture on its head to analyse it in such a manner . |
| 29 | Can you make it in half an hour 's time , you know . |
| 30 | But we 'll be building it in such a way as lets us add without making a pig 's breakfast of it . |