Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [prep] a [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | They wanted to kill me in a horrific way , to frighten those who work in defence of human rights . |
| 2 | Teaching materials usually provide very little in the way of explicit rationale which would enable teachers to modify them in a principled way with reference to the ideas which inform them . |
| 3 | It is difficult to speak of popular religion or to define it in a satisfactory way , because it included an amalgam of magic and superstition , belief and doubt , the pagan and the Christian . |
| 4 | However , it is likely to be preferable to limit the range of choices facing the teacher at any moment and to group them in a natural way from a teaching point of view . |
| 5 | If possible try to frame them in a dramatic way — because this is a further pointer for the children showing how you are going to work together . |
| 6 | to bringing the claim , if it is pursued , the claim maybe good , it maybe bad and it depends upon the circumstances of the underline agreement , that 's one example where something maybe good or it maybe bad , it 's like an intellectual property ride , depending on how you exercise the right , it maybe good or it maybe bad , if you use it to block parallel imports or for some anti competitive purpose then it may be bad , erm it , it 's not necessarily the case that if you have a clause in the contract it is always in every circumstance bad , where the clause itself allows the undertaking concerned , to exercise it in a particular way , now , erm so so that as a matter of principal not all clauses could be automatically said in a standard form contract to be good or bad and it may depend upon how they are to exercise in a particular way , what we have said is the , the , erm , the provision in on , on the , the unfettable authority , er , erm and powers of the agent , erm is void it would depend upon the facts of each individual case whether or not every other restriction as your Lordships seen again only through and the cases they side , erm that other provisions in a standard form contract may on the facts be had , it depends upon the significance of the particular clause in the circumstances , my Lord in , in answer to your Lordships question , I do n't think it necessary follows that every clause is bad , but we do say it depends upon the facts and we have pleaded that not all loss might be erm defensible against . |
| 7 | Are we trying to achieve , erm unity or bringing children in to do something in a corporate way . |
| 8 | In the second the ‘ stage of conventional morality ’ , the child judges people by their intentions in carrying out something , and then moves on to believe it is a persons duty to do something in a particular way . |
| 9 | To return to Griffith 's experiments , Griffith was not the first man to draw strong glass fibres but he was probably the first man to do it in a systematic way and to provide a plausible explanation of the results . |
| 10 | Afghans have always killed each other in a small way , and started to do it in a big way only when foreign armies , money and weapons became involved . |
| 11 | They may not have a reason to prefer one way of going about things to another , but the fact that they chose to do it in a particular way gives them a reason to prefer that way from now on . |
| 12 | Our early encounters with power may have deterred us from ever wanting to use it in a similar way ; having suffered from a cold , distant father or a smothering mother , and inevitably having attributed power to these parents , we may well decide that power is a negative force and not for us . |
| 13 | ‘ If somebody 's already used a break it just means you 've got to use it in a better way . |
| 14 | The question is rather whether the accounts ought to record it in a meaningful way . |
| 15 | In practice that means keeping an eye out for leadership qualities and sometimes selecting on that basis and , at the same time , encouraging the absorption of certain leadership precepts by those who do not seem to possess them in a natural way . |
| 16 | This will serve to start you in a new way of thinking about your rating habits . |
| 17 | You have to read it in a certain way . |
| 18 | ‘ They said they were so impressed — and now that green issues are moving up their agenda , they 've become aware that they have to run themselves in a green way — that they are committing three million dollars into researching ‘ golf and the environment ’ , and appointing an ecologist to lead the research . ’ |
| 19 | Isaac Mizrahi was the first to dress her in a big way , but since she came to Paris last year the designers all want to meet her , as do the socialites , the Left Bank social hostesses who receive prime ministers as well as actors . |
| 20 | The org the organist used to carry it for a long way . |
| 21 | Now that we have video in the classroom the opportunity to focus on the visual is clearly there , so should we attempt to include it in a systematic way ? |
| 22 | Having achieved professional status by means of success in competitive examinations , they are likely to feel a sense of obligation to working-class pupils to equip them in a similar way . |
| 23 | For when he seeks a particular type of person to assist him in a particular way , he can be assured that the recruitment professional will not waste his time or energy in introducing unsuitable candidates for consideration , but that he will be given details of only the right sort of person for the required position . |
| 24 | Or it may be that the question you are interested in has been discussed before , but that you want to develop it in a particular way , or to extend it , or to disagree with one of its premises . |
| 25 | Erm Jim you , you , you need to present it in a certain way to your staff , and er after you 've considered that , if you do n't feel it 's workable then I think you need to talk to David and I . |
| 26 | You mean you would like to present it in a different way ? |
| 27 | It would have been a foolish , bull-necked man who would have looked a gift horse in the mouth … so I like to see myself in a small way as following in his footsteps . ’ |
| 28 | When I started to touch her in a sexual way I asked her if she liked it . |
| 29 | I know it was a lie , but at six years old I felt that a close relative should be the one to tell him in a quiet way . |
| 30 | ‘ I tried to tell her in a matter-of-fact way that when you die you leave your body behind and go to Heaven . |