Example sentences of "[adj] in [adj] a way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nuadu wanted to cry out to him not to be so defiant , for the Robemaker could certainly not by vanquished in such a way . |
| 2 | I think it 's a terribly difficult thing to do , but I 'd like to have a go at it in the following way , by saying that somebody is a case of sexual harassment has occurred when the behaviour of one person makes another person uncomfortable in such a way that that person , the person who 's uncomfortable , becomes overly conscious of their gender or sexual characteristics . |
| 3 | It is this : that collective force should be trained against individuals only when some past political decision has licensed this explicit in such a way that competent lawyers and judges will all agree about what that decision was , no matter how much they disagree about morality and politics . |
| 4 | By re-classifying the conduct involved in such a way as to distinguish the grave from the less grave , it is hoped to discourage unwarranted pleas of not guilty and to overcome both the reluctance of prosecutors to bring charges and of courts to convict . |
| 5 | Many women in the French fabliaux are described as beautiful , and thus alluring in such a way as to motivate the fabliau plot , but none is made poetically truly so within the text to the extent that Chaucer 's Alison is . |
| 6 | GNP per capita can be determined for all of the countries concerned in such a way that meaningful comparisons can be drawn . |
| 7 | For research focused on formal aspects of code switching , much of the interest lies in the process whereby two widely divergent grammatical systems are made compatible in such a way that switching is possible between them : hence researchers in this area have mainly concentrated on pairs of languages that have no more than chance ( or universal ) similarities . |
| 8 | A major requirement of a religion then , must be that , above all , it shall be capable of a simplified , but undistorted interpretation capable of being taught to the very young in such a way that it will instil in them the stirrings of what will become their consciences , that is , they will harbour a subconscious awareness of the fundamental nature of right and wrong as these are applied to those areas of human aspirations where they are beyond dispute . |
| 9 | Yet whether we think of ourselves as secularist or as religious , we can not be absolutely certain in such a way that our certainty can not be challenged by other people . |
| 10 | To be religious in such a way is to understand theology to have the same relation to the past as do all other human disciplines . |
| 11 | Unlike the wasp , a honey bee 's sting is barbed in such a way that it can not retract once buried in its victim . |
| 12 | The ingredients are familiar , reminiscent of the pastoralism of Bewick and Palmer , but they are patterned in such a way as to avoid the cosily picturesque . |