Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] in a way " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't think he conceived ‘ Ziggy Stardust ’ as a concept album , but the songs slotted together in a way that it became a concept , and the way he presented it on stage , how he wanted to look , how the boy 's costumes looked ( facsimiles of his — though his were patterned and theirs were simple ) meant that he 'd breathe life into a concept hero . |
| 2 | I want you — take me , ’ she whispered , twisting now in a way not designed to keep him away . |
| 3 | But the wee winger from Fife bounced back in a way that says much for the survivalist instincts in the human spirit . |
| 4 | It was also found that while the aircraft was in service a modification to the door mechanism had been carried out in a way which did not comply with the appropriate service bulletin . |
| 5 | There is a genuine exchange , a genuine sale and a genuine investment company , the whole transaction being carried out in a way which the Act , in express terms , provides for . |
| 6 | There is no doubt that reform of the common agricultural policy must be carried out in a way which ensures that there is no discrimination against farmers in the United Kingdom . |
| 7 | For instance , the basic activity in ( 2 ) is painting the general ; but the sentence tells us more specifically that it is an activity carried out in a way that envisages the general as seated . |
| 8 | Other teeth moved freely in a way that they had never moved before . |
| 9 | Passing sentence , Mr Justice Latham said : ‘ Adolescent emotions boiled over in a way that older people would have been able to cope with . ’ |
| 10 | However , it is clear that the parents will often not admit their true feelings about the child and the incident , acting rather in a way which they perceive to be desirable in the circumstances , to gain the return of their children . |
| 11 | Other strings have anything from seven to many hundreds of micro-fibres which are then twisted together in a way similar to natural gut . |
| 12 | So if we wish to touch the horse or communicate with the horse , we should do so in a way that is acceptable to the horse . |
| 13 | The distinction between natural science and the sciences concerned with human action must be developed further in a way which Freud himself failed to do . |
| 14 | Best of all is Donald Maxwell , marvellously sinister as the hunchback Prime Minister , Leander , sidling on in a way to chill the blood . |
| 15 | He makes it clear in his Report that these ‘ prisoner contracts ’ should not be drawn up in a way which would give the prisoner private rights ( that is the right to damages ) . |
| 16 | For no apparent reason it was hanging on my head like lank seaweed ; I could n't make it puff out in a way that hid my ears properly . |
| 17 | As so often , ‘ decadent ’ is used here in a way evasive of what it gestures towards . |
| 18 | But then , having exhausted his recollections of the circumstances of his writing the paper , he switched to more personal matters and enquired carefully how I was getting on in a way that made me reel that my mission had been worthwhile and that I had by no means wasted his morning . |
| 19 | If he was to rule as well as reign he himself had to overthrow Mortimer and Isabella and to do so in a way which would not enhance the power of the magnates . |
| 20 | That Peel , leading the Tory opposition , recognised that the Whigs ' Bill would in the short run unite the middle and lower classes in support of the Government is one thing ; to infer from this that Grey and his team deliberately set out both to counter the threat of revolution and to do so in a way which would ultimately isolate the working class , quite another . |
| 21 | In particular , I will focus on those occasions when executives try to solve problems that are potentially threatening , and they try to do so in a way that communicates caring and respect for the other . |
| 22 | Of course we have to pay the mortgage , but it is important to be able to do so in a way which contributes to international understanding and equips our students with worthwhile and important skills . |
| 23 | The important point to remember is that all the sub-units are needed if the production function is to meet its aim of providing the goods required by its customers , and to do so in a way that meets the profit , growth and other objectives of the organization as a whole . |
| 24 | Even if subjects are deliberately attempting to recall the risky situations it would still be interesting that they are able to do so in a way that makes them distinct from all the other situations encountered . |
| 25 | Thus redness , rather than merely looking red , is basic but its being there is bound up in a way which is manifest from the start with how it looks to us . |
| 26 | It was n't the first time her pupil had mentioned Rossmayne and each time the girl 's face had lit up in a way which made the nun catch her breath . |
| 27 | You know , erm , you know what sort of gross salary and you know and there was , you were holding back in a way erm tt and why you did n't wan na discuss your hobbies you know where you were losing it |
| 28 | So she grinned vaguely in a way that could have meant yes or could have meant no . |
| 29 | The camera swung again , but this time George looked above it , to a monitor screen hung on a metal rafter above the audience , to see his own face in close-up , the eyes staring upward in a way that gave him an absurdly soulful look . |
| 30 | It is doing so in a way that does not give wind a good name . |