Example sentences of "[det] a way as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hopefully , he can use the creativity which exists between the experiential inside view and observational outside view of a cultural system to formulate an ethnography which incorporates ‘ a continuous dialectical , tacking between the most local of detail and the most global of global structures in such a way as to bring them into simultaneous view ’ ( Geertz ibid. 235 ) . |
| 2 | Many contestants apply a foot sweep in such a way as to strike the side of the opponent 's knee . |
| 3 | Loosen the support when the competition is over and work the wrist in such a way as to maintain its range of movement . |
| 4 | Skilfully applied , these cuts were made in such a way as to protect the sectors ' long-term business-base stability . |
| 5 | Indeed , philosophers such as Susan Mendus , of York University , produced a novel apologia for liberal book-banning : ‘ Where free speech is employed in such a way as to destroy the possibility of communication and of mutual understanding , then its raison d'etre is destroyed , ’ she argued . |
| 6 | To answer that immediate need , the British government has been agonising over how to offer a single tranche of passports , perhaps 100,000 , to Hong Kong , in such a way as to target recipients whom it believes play vital roles in the public and private sector . |
| 7 | It is impossible to know the extent to which this knowledge had a reactive effect in the field , although the research was designed in such a way as to try to establish , as well as one ever could , whether there was a mask behind which respondents were concealing their true behaviour and feelings . |
| 8 | If we baldly declare the Bible world-picture and do not interpret it to the modern world in such a way as to make it intelligible , we are useless . |
| 9 | While we do this we must beware of those who are so hungry for authority in our societies that they want to press the authority of the Bible over men and the Church in such a way as to lead to extravagance or to sectarianism . |
| 10 | The poem is an undermining of traditional notions of love , through repeating love 's rites in such a way as to show them as meaningless . |
| 11 | In the 1960s Kenyatta manipulated sales of formerly white-owned land and businesses in such a way as to create a new class of Kenyan capitalists to replace the old white capitalists , in a no-nonsense determination to both preserve the private sector and to transfer its ownership into African hands . |
| 12 | On the basis of her understanding , it appears that any artist in the USA who uses the conventions of the mass media in such a way as to produce a critique of the media ( and I can think of a good many ) is veritably a ‘ quasi-situationist ’ . |
| 13 | Even the payment of players was regulated in such a way as to prevent clubs competing in a free market for talent . |
| 14 | Current legislation is embodied in the Health and Safety at Work Act which places a general duty on an employer to ‘ conduct his undertaking in such a way as to ensure , as far as is practicable , that persons not in his employment who may be affected thereby , are not exposed to risks to their health and safety . ’ |
| 15 | The General Staff was left with unenviable task of deploying a smaller army than was needed in such a way as to reduce the risks of the Sandys Reformation . |
| 16 | Given Hobbes 's view of egocentric human nature , according to which people always act in such a way as to produce pleasure and avoid pain , it is plain how they will behave in an ungoverned state of nature . |
| 17 | Certain propositions are true because the relevant ideas are connected and related to each other in such a way as to make them true . |
| 18 | But we do perceive people 's bodies , and these behave in such a way as to show that they are accompanied by ‘ a distinct principle of thought and motion [ i.e. a mind ] like to ourselves ’ . |
| 19 | Thirdly , it is also possible that the advances in birth control operating within the climate of an ‘ acquisitive society ’ might well have permitted couples to plan their family lives in such a way as to allow them to enjoy the consumer benefits of society . |
| 20 | Others , including Richard and Kathleen Titmuss , suggested the need to regulate future population in such a way as to help the overall development of the economy . |
| 21 | There were no sudden changes in direction even though employers and government began to modify their attitudes towards trade unions in such a way as to encourage negotiations at the highest level . |
| 22 | If our propaganda has failed , it has failed because we have been unable to arouse the British people in such a way as to make them feel that the cause of Republican Spain was their cause in such a measure that they would take every risk , even the risk of war to make the Republican cause in Spain prevail . |
| 23 | A second approach is to frame the law in such a way as to make it clear that the court should make a moral judgment on the gravity of the defendant 's conduct . |
| 24 | A pair of wellington boots stood below a big black overcoat in such a way as to give the impression that a very tall man was standing against the wall , watchful and silent . |
| 25 | Mozart once said , ‘ Passions , whether violent or not , must never be expressed in such a way as to excite disgust . ’ |
| 26 | The disc that slipped had done so in such a way as to be digging into my spinal chord . |
| 27 | But she thought of how , if the positions had been reversed , she would have written pages full of detail to Ellen , would have described a child in such a way as to make him spring from the writing , alive and visible . |
| 28 | All the emphasis , she felt , must be on this coming as an order which could not be disobeyed and yet put in such a way as not to be offensive . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Thus the skills , knowledge and qualities of individuals appointed to the institution are formulated in such a way as to contribute to the achievement of institutional aims . |