Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] a way that " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | They seemed to have darkened , smouldering in a way that sent hot and cold chills chasing each other through her body . |
| 6 | Once documented the data can be rearranged in a way that reveals how you can reorganize matters to give you more time . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The managers might behave in a way that benefits themselves and does not maximize shareholders ' wealth . |
| 10 | It is artificially constrained in a way that ensures that the burden is not fairly distributed and those at the top end of the property range , and very likely to be at the top end of the income range , are being given shelter which is not justified . |
| 11 | Given that agreement is reached and a contract is established , either formally or informally , the matter of supply is resolved in a way that will ensure continuity of suitable materials with the minimum of problems . |
| 12 | In consequence , there has been the pretence that a single perspective grounded in the nineteenth century can capture the essentials of things today , and so constitutional theory has itself been frozen in a way that has confined the parameters of constitutional debate . |
| 13 | Whereas one would expect the lexicon to be organised in a way that facilitates the access of items , one would expect working memory to be organised in a way that facilitated the discrimination of competing hypotheses . |
| 14 | Whereas one would expect the lexicon to be organised in a way that facilitates the access of items , one would expect working memory to be organised in a way that facilitated the discrimination of competing hypotheses . |
| 15 | The recognition that the transnational practices in the culture-ideology sphere were seriously asymmetrical had to be addressed in a way that was not necessary for economic and political TNPs . |
| 16 | Near vision tasks need to be presented in a way that ensures that materials can be easily accessible to handle . |
| 17 | The Beeching proposals have been criticized for the lack of serious consideration given to the possibility of retaining many unprofitable passenger services , and the case for closure was presented in a way that prejudged the final decision . |
| 18 | In this , pupils will be guided by the realisation that they are part of a community of moral wisdom , the Church ; and the reasons for Church teachings will be presented in a way that makes possible informed , personal choices . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | These problems require very different sorts of action ; together their requirements conflict in a way that gives him little room for manoeuvre . |
| 21 | These problems require very different sorts of action ; together their requirements conflict in a way that gives him little room for manoeuvre . |
| 22 | ‘ People get hooked , ’ he wrote , ‘ they begin to behave in a way that resembles addiction . |
| 23 | Yet , if every state is following its national interest by maximizing power , how can Realists account for situations when states seem to behave in a way that undermines their power ? |
| 24 | She shook her head , which wobbled the ear she was now nibbling in a way that he found extremely stimulating . |
| 25 | This should be done in a way that enables cleaning to be efficient without interfering . |
| 26 | This should be done in a way that will encourage primary care practitioners and their hospital based colleagues to collaborate on patient management . |
| 27 | Stating the US position on May 29 , Cheney said that " whatever is done in the European context should be done in a way that strengthens the alliance " . |
| 28 | All our respondents agreed that the new qualifications should be based on a structure of mandatory and optional units , though the strong view was expressed that this should be done in a way that allowed plenty of flexibility . |
| 29 | This planning is being done in a way that it has never been done before and I 'm surprised they have n't grasped that . |
| 30 | Well I get involved in it in so many different ways erm this is a difficult one , but one of the things that happens is that a number of teachers , both from the area and elsewhere , erm do advanced courses at the university and as part of these courses we have a unit on evaluation , and for this they will choose some area of their school work which they and their colleagues — and I emphasise that this is something they do have to involve their colleagues back at school in very much — erm feel it would be useful to look at and then they try and discuss with their colleagues what aspects of it are important and significant and what ought to be seen , and they bring this discussion back and we all discuss together there 'll be different teachers working on different problems the different ways in which they could approach this problem and how they might most usefully be able to do it and at the end of the exercise they will have found out quite a lot about this particular area of teaching and very often we find that the people they 've consulted have themselves got quite interested in it and begun to realize that it 's not being done in a way that 's there to threaten them , they 're not sending a report to the headmaster or the Chief Education Officer or anything like that — it 's for the benefit of the people doing the work themselves . |