Example sentences of "[verb] in a way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her heart beat in a way she had not been conscious of it beating for many a month and she felt near to tears . |
| 2 | And the agreement may insist that the duchess should never act in a way that brings the royal family into disrepute . |
| 3 | On the other hand , such an authority must act in good faith , use the powers for the purpose for which they were given , take into account relevant matters and disregard the irrelevant , and must not act in a way so unreasonable that no reasonable authority could have so acted . |
| 4 | Thus the government may spend money on compulsory education or compulsory vaccination because is recognizes that , left to their own decisions , individuals will act in a way they will subsequently regret . |
| 5 | Needs have to be met to enable active citizenship as without education , welfare , health care , self-respect , and law we can not act in a way we would like to . |
| 6 | However , the study was not designed in a way that would allow the conclusion that physicians were as accurate as psychiatrists in their diagnoses and recommendations . |
| 7 | It also believes that planning can ensure that new buildings are designed in a way which it likes , and has an ability to prevent anything , however small , happening near its own house which reduces its value or interferes with the way in which it has been in the habit of using it . |
| 8 | If this is the case we may be standing , sitting or walking in a way that is putting enormous stresses on our structure without us even being aware of it at all . |
| 9 | Because their demands were nil , the Masai could be approached in a way which came close to the Colonial Service 's proclaimed ideal of disinterested benevolence . |
| 10 | I do n't think you , you 've , you 've got to try in a way not to shut it off too much erm and yet it , i you 've just got to sort of be able to not shut it off but sort of create different areas |
| 11 | The Geste brothers are stereotypes and may be laughed at with impunity : but Charles Wogan , as A. E. W. Mason saw him in Clementina , and the ingenuous John Ridd , self-revealing narrator of Lorna Doone , exemplify the intricacies of love and honour in a way that transcends period and social niceties . |
| 12 | I think the er figures also suggest in a way that |
| 13 | The New Testament teaches us that God is present and active in this world through his Holy Spirit , who is able to enter the hearts of individuals , giving new qualities of life and understanding in a way which we can not fully grasp , though we can experience it . |
| 14 | She then stood next to the telephone box , her stomach beginning to tighten in a way which was becoming sickeningly familiar . |
| 15 | Moreover , these correlations only achieved overall significance when the junctions were grouped in a way which may make sense , but was clearly post hoc . |
| 16 | Another factor which may influence the chances of conventional videodisc players is that in the 1990s , the collection of high quality , permanent recordings of movies and other programming might appeal in a way it never could in the early 1980s . |
| 17 | The late Marguerite Yourcenar was also an admirer of Proust and she relates the history of her mother 's family in Dear Departed in a way which recalls Proust 's fidelity to our actual thinking about the past and to the sheer coincidences by which past and present can seem to illuminate one another . |
| 18 | They seemed to have darkened , smouldering in a way that sent hot and cold chills chasing each other through her body . |
| 19 | Once documented the data can be rearranged in a way that reveals how you can reorganize matters to give you more time . |
| 20 | I was astonished , and a little dismayed , by the ease with which Dana entered into the spirit of things , giving Indian war-whoops and clowning and laughing in a way I thought was rather contemptible . |
| 21 | Although they discovered they had hardly a single taste in common , he was nonetheless a witty and amusing host and she found herself laughing in a way she had not done for a considerable time . |
| 22 | She moved in a way that seemed to emphasize the body beneath the clothes , to hint at the purposes to which it might be put . |
| 23 | These new powers , however , were buttressed by substantial grants of land , which led one chronicler to remark that the resources of the crown had been dissipated and a modern historian to comment rather sourly that ‘ hereditary offices and jurisdictions were scattered in a way hardly compatible either with the interests of the crown , or with sound finance ’ . |
| 24 | When humans cut down the forest , it might be replaced by a permanent grassland because the soil itself had been modified in a way that prevented the trees from reseeding themselves . |
| 25 | Such metalwork and fabric may have been decorated in a way which conveyed meaning to the wearer and the viewer , but all of the artefacts whose technology we have considered had , first and foremost a function to their owners . |
| 26 | Well , basically to tell you the truth it 's been … better in a way . |
| 27 | Short-skirted and heavily made-up , she smoked and drank and behaved in a way that outraged many of the older generation . |
| 28 | Some at least of the leading Romans felt and behaved in a way which seemed to him perfectly understandable and eminently sensible . |
| 29 | Boswell amplifies in a way which casts a slightly different glow on the affair : he comments on how striking it was to hear all the aldermen of Aberdeen drinking Johnson's-health with much exclamation of the great man 's name . |
| 30 | The managers might behave in a way that benefits themselves and does not maximize shareholders ' wealth . |