Example sentences of "in a [noun sg] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is in the very nature of democratic politics that policy change must be rationalised in a vocabulary that both appeals to popular understandings of the social problems that are being tackled and yet does not disturb certain common sense understandings of the workings of the economic system . |
| 2 | Like another release in the same series — Benedict Mason 's Lighthouses of England and Wales , which I 've reviewed at length below — Birtwistle 's work is also , for all its contemporary superstructure and substructures , a species of tone-poem in a genre that British composers tend to be good at : in this case the quasipantheistic dark-pastoral in the tradition of North Country Sketches , In the Faery Hills , Enter Spring and , perhaps especially , the ‘ Ritual dances ’ from Tippett 's Midsummer Marriage . |
| 3 | As their lips met , she knew in a flash that this kiss of love was even more wonderful than the words that had just thrilled her . |
| 4 | Then he added , in a tone that combined statement , claim , threat and ultimatum : ‘ Mine . ’ |
| 5 | Yes I mean in a sense that just sort of shows that a lot of people would agree with Lakehoff in the sense that they think that women use a lot of tag questions and have that speech style , erm I mean like we 've been able to see , and what we can say is that men and women 's language is different er and it 's even possible to say in what way it 's different , but the difficulty becomes when we actually want to say why those differences are . |
| 6 | This has resulted in a proposal that one phoneme symbol ( e.g. ) be used for representing any occurrence of or , so that ‘ cup ’ would be transcribed and ‘ upper ’ as . |
| 7 | Admittedly , the Model Penal Code does contain a list of circumstances which may amount to extreme indifference , which assists the courts and increases the predictability of verdicts in a way that Scots law does not , but the essence of both approaches is that there is no precise way of describing those non-intentional killings which are as heinous as intentional killings . |
| 8 | Presidents are tribunes of the people in a way that prime ministers are not , and British general elections — notwithstanding some recent increase in the importance of the personality of leaders — continue to be overwhelmingly party-based affairs . |
| 9 | Germany , by contrast , with a huge export surplus , benefits from the systematic undervaluation of her currency in a way that net importers do not . |
| 10 | Faith must ‘ know its object ’ in a way that philosophical reason can not . |
| 11 | Erm one of the things I picked up off the course is , technically every training course that we have , should be written in a way that that identifies erm Unit two point four I 'm on to at the minute . . |
| 12 | Local authorities are directly responsible for providing services in a way that central government frequently avoids by the allocation of responsibility to other governmental agencies . |
| 13 | What a queasy period those inter-war years now seem ( I am looking at the chicken curry ) , the old hatreds and prejudices simmering and bubbling nicely with all the dark , irrational fears surfacing in a way that rational people like Cohn-Casson believed had long ago been rendered obsolete by the evolutionary nature of society . |
| 14 | He had already imposed his personality upon the country in a way that Bonar Law in eleven years of intermittent Conservative leadership had never succeeded in doing . |
| 15 | The current warm-weather soundtrack of choice for discerning numbskulls is Ugly Kid Joe , a quartet of stoned surfers who 've risen to power on the Young Dumb Fun ticket in a way that critically-defied combos like The Ramones never managed . |
| 16 | It seems to be one of the basic functions of art to enable us to acknowledge thought and perception in a way that other things do not . |
| 17 | The fact is , Karajan was able to accommodate and support voices , even in the most taxing roles , in a way that other conductors with a less complete control of the orchestra find it hard to emulate . |
| 18 | We can certainly say that in an important sense a record is finished — finite , objectified — in a way that oral performance is not ; indeed , in this sense it is , ironically , recordings rather than scores which represent an extreme form of reified abstraction ( with the resulting potential alienation of producer and consumer ) . |
| 19 | Renault 's new front-drive , 1.2-litre , one-box baby looks confident in a way that small cars seldom do ; it 's cute without being jokey , radical without being controversial . |
| 20 | What is interesting is that you had a kind of real intellectual respect for intellectual content and expertise and professionalism in a way that previous programmers perhaps have n't . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , central control of the elementary school curriculum was maintained through a succession of codes and it was not until 1936 that these regulations were changed in a way that left responsibility for ‘ a suitable curriculum and syllabus with due regard to the organisation and circumstances of the school ’ in the hands of teachers . |
| 22 | They start to refine their miaows in a way that wild cats never seem to do . |
| 23 | This argument can be formulated more quantitatively in a way that both helps with the understanding of it and shows what determines the width of the fingers . |
| 24 | That too , despite its popularity , had been underrated , in a way that this recording ought to correct once and for all . |
| 25 | This allows some spectacular spaces within , with rooms soaring into the roof space in a way that American architects have designed for years . |
| 26 | This term was reserved for the rural dialects , which had been legitimized by nineteenth-century investigations , and which were believed to be ‘ genuine ’ in a way that urban dialects are not . |
| 27 | Foreignness for me provided a difference that moved me in a way that sexual difference never did ’ ( ‘ Home and Abroad ’ , 44 , my emphasis ) . |
| 28 | Private care can be flexible and innovative in a way that statutory services often find difficult . |
| 29 | So although positivist criminology did concern itself with social and economic conditions , in a way that classical criminology did not , it mostly ended up just as timid-looking as far as drawing ‘ corrective ’ conclusions was concerned . |
| 30 | These sorts of rule-breaking are amenable to strategies of correction or control in a way that most forms of isolated crime can not be . |