Example sentences of "[det] a [noun sg] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Both the assertion of central authority and the fragmentation of local social structures and economics are integral to the overall desire to use power to restructure social arrangements in such a way that certain interests are favoured over others , to reward supporters , and to maintain these arrangements by using social institutions to entrench an alternative set of ideas , those of the ‘ enterprise culture ’ .
2 It works in such a way that lower interest rates may fail to boost credit and demand .
3 3.3 In making detailed arrangements for phasing of the transition , it is intended that implementation will be arranged in such a way that all centres offering a particular course will transfer to the new system in the same year .
4 It seems essential that the school should operate in such a way that all staff , including non-teaching staff , have the opportunity to think together about its work in a way that deepens understanding of aims and moves towards genuinely shared values .
5 Accordingly , teachers need to choose books in such a way that all pupils have the opportunity to learn how to understand and enjoy works that make manageable but increasing demands upon them .
6 Ideally , an approach is required which will narrow the focus of the " act of identity " in such a way that individual choices like the one just mentioned can be seen as part of systematic behaviour patterns which are simultaneously typical of speakers ' own fictive speech communities and conditioned by the immediate context of the interaction in which they occur .
7 At issue in this seemingly-abstruse dispute is a fundamental question : how to tax the growing number of firms which operate around the world in such a way that each dollar of profit is taxed only once , but firms are discouraged from artificially shifting profits to low-tax jurisdictions .
8 Bearing in mind the difficulty that you may have had even in locating a book on the shelves in your room , imagine what a formidable task it is to arrange hundreds of thousands of books in a college library in such a way that each reader can quickly find a particular book or publication on a particular topic .
9 Among archivists and manuscript curators , it is an essential principle to explain the provenance of the documentary sources and preserve their integrity in such a way that each reader may draw his/her own conclusions with the minimum of interference .
10 The story is constructed in such a way that each group gets different information , or perhaps a different version of the same story .
11 Bickerton ( 1973 ) provides detailed analyses using statistical scaling of variables to produce an implicational scale , ranking different speakers ' grammars in such a way that each grammar ( corresponding to a " lect " ) differs from the next by just one rule .
12 They had to fit the cars in the car park in such a way that each car could get in and out .
13 Kung fu training is constructed in such a way that each step is dissected by the teacher to reveal its particular function .
14 This occurs in such a way that similar increments of growth are similar in shape , similarly oriented , and similarly magnified relative to their predecessors .
15 Her sense of time is utterly bewitching : she floats phrases across bar-lines , stretches vowel sounds or shrinks a line in such a way that indifferent melodies are made to sound stronger than they are .
16 This was because the Shah , always nervous of a military coup against him , had structured the armed forces in such a way that lateral collaboration between the services was very hard to arrange .
17 In this view , cohesive ties exist between elements in connected sentences of a text in such a way that one word or phrase is linked to other words or phrases .
18 Bilateral animals move in a constant direction in such a way that one end is the front and the other the back .
19 Unfortunately at the press conference our careful recommendations about the importance of Standard English were presented in such a way that many journalists came away with the false impression that we did not mind if children spoke dialect rather than Standard English .
20 Areal data will not suffice by themselves , since it is quite possible for aggregate areal food production to increase in such a way that increasing numbers of people have difficulty feeding themselves .
21 ‘ People go to school to learn , ’ he said , ‘ and if they go to school to learn , at the end of the day they have to be marked in such a way that future employers or colleges know what they have achieved . ’
22 This one happens to slow down the flow in such a way that future deposition of its own kind of clay is enhanced .
23 These relationships are held in a hierarchical fashion in such a way that greater definition is achieved as lower levels are displayed .
24 It is this : that collective force should be trained against individuals only when some past political decision has licensed this explicit in such a way that competent lawyers and judges will all agree about what that decision was , no matter how much they disagree about morality and politics .
25 He took his argument further than that based on the existence of the pluralist society whether of his day or ours , and drew attention to the crucial question of truth-claims which can not be publicly demonstrated in such a way that reasonable people may not disagree .
26 As to which sorts of things will produce these sensations , that has been settled for us by nature ( ultimately God ) in such a way that normal men will inevitably agree as to the colour and smell of things .
27 GNP per capita can be determined for all of the countries concerned in such a way that meaningful comparisons can be drawn .
28 The reason is that the recognition network was arranged in such a way that acoustic similarities were minimized .
29 You should explain to them that it is your responsibility to ensure that contracts are exchanged in such a way that this scenario does not arise .
30 Who , therefore , is responsible for seeing that the areas available are planned in such a way that this end may be achieved ?
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