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Example sentences of "[vb infin] in [art] way " in BNC.

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1	And the agreement may insist that the duchess should never act in a way that brings the royal family into disrepute .
2	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 .
3	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 .
4	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 .
5	Responsible suppliers , who have everything to gain by maximising product penetration , will welcome the chance to contribute and usually will assist in every way .
6	By day it 's very much a ‘ let's get a sunlounger and lie on the sand ’ sort of resort and the sandy beach is well equipped with everything you 'll need in the way of bars , restaurants and shade , and there are several places to waterski , windsurf and parascend or try your hand on the wet bikes .
7	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 .
8	The managers might behave in a way that benefits themselves and does not maximize shareholders ' wealth .
9	When we are hurt by someone 's behaviour , all that is happening is that we are disappointed because they do not behave in the way we expect and the reality conflicts with our ideals .
10	It 's quite clear why women do n't achieve in the way define by the general public .
11	Future Neil Kinnocks — or David Blunketts or Michael Meachers or even Ken Livingstones — will find that their best strategy in their early years in national politics will be to act and speak in a way that appeals to ordinary television-watching , newspaper-reading Labour Party members , rather than to the left 's hyperactivists .
12	People will usually choose in a way which is consistent , but not in their own best interests since they fail to take into account all relevant information .
13	I realised why I was wrong about good theatre , about how it can enthrall in a way cinema and television rarely does .
14	On any view of causes , a great deal in the life of each of us is completely out of our power , and our freedom must consist in the way we handle that small but crucial area which does actually come before us for choice .
15	We choose to be attractive , or dowdy , to enhance what nature has given us or to play it down ; we can dress in a way that we feel accords with our essential character or choose to create a fantasy image which bears little resemblance to the personality .
16	But she does now dress in a way that pays attention to the mood of the moment for quieter , softer clothes .
17	Nothing that he can do in the way of concentrating on the original sensation and uttering the word ‘ pain ’ will succeed in endowing that word with a meaning .
18	We can not check this independently by re-examining the original one , not because we can not re-examine the original one but because everything we can do in the way of a re-examination is just doing again what we have already done in thinking of the new sensation as relevantly similar to the old one .
19	As a side issue if anyone knows what we ( the public ) can do in the way of complaint against Ceefax can they let me know … it almost spoilt a wonderful day .
20	What Hailey did see in the way of African unrest was a number of scattered local agitations arising from problems connected with land tenure , taxation , conditions of employment , and interference with native custom .
21	I shall be the director but you will work in the way you 're used to and as you think fit .
22	The language that most of the home computers are used with is BASIC , and although there are a few words in that language which look like English words , like ‘ If ’ and ‘ Let ’ and ‘ Go to ’ and perhaps some others depending on the dialect of BASIC that you have , these words do not work in the way that ordinary English speakers are used to .
23	Well I suppose you can understand in a way .
24	Indeed , the thrust of what my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State and I seek to do is to tell people of their rights , how they can best achieve them and how they can claim in a way which is much different from before .
25	What do you suggest in the way of decor ?
26	It should come as little surprise that some of those who feel they have no stake in ‘ official ’ society should react in a way that demonstrates their exclusion .
27	She has to know how to deliver appropriate information to the patient , to overcome the neurological deficit which is the result of the brain damage , and to help him react in the way she wishes by producing carefully controlled movements .
28	Jane often tried to shock her mother into facing some of the world 's uglier problems , but Laura did not react in the way Jane might have expected .
29	She , too , was unhappy about the play — to say nothing about the fact that all too few people carne to see her in her dressing room , a circumstance that was startling to her , even though she did n't react in the way that Ken himself would have done .
30	We seem to be on firmer ground , however , if we suggest that a singer who draws upon a training in the English choral tradition will not readily perform in a way that is bogus , trivial or solipsistic , for the choral tradition is none of those things ; it embodies the results of countless individual strivings for the best results in conformity to a communal discipline .