Example sentences of "[art] [adj] way that a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Urgent Issues Task Force issued a statement on 17 December 1992 about the unsatisfactory way that a small minority of companies have applied UITF 3 ( see also ACCOUNTANCY , January , p 9 ) . |
| 2 | The one way that a positive step forward in the pursuit of air safety can be made in the UK is by reinstituting the office with a dynamic and imaginative Director of Flight Safety . |
| 3 | I enjoy the actual hunt in the same way that a fisherman enjoys casting his fly or bait near a fish that he has seen in the hope of catching it . |
| 4 | Subject bibliographies are therefore the raw materials of the trade of stock revision , and librarians working on stock revision should seek to acquire a working knowledge of their existence and contents in the same way that a reference librarian is familiar with the major reference tools in the collection . |
| 5 | The first type of theory proposes that these people make an inappropriate immune response ( allergic response ) to certain synthetic chemicals , in the same way that a hay-fever sufferer reacts adversely to pollen ( see Chapter Two ) . |
| 6 | Very often a headache or a stomach upset is a sign of your system being polluted anyway — in the same way that a hangover is because of your system trying to cope with an influx of alcohol . |
| 7 | I would n't expect it to compete for the funnel-web spider ‘ small but deadly ’ award in the same way that a Mesa Boogie .22 could , but look at the price difference and you 'll appreciate why . |
| 8 | Not in the normal sense , I would suggest ; it is amoral , in the same way that a thunderstorm breaking is the inevitable outcome of battling elemental forces . |
| 9 | ‘ She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short ’ — Clive James on Marilyn Monroe . |
| 10 | A rose is like a dog : you do not and can not get back more than you put in and , in the same way that a dog is more rewarding than most other animals , you get more back from a rose than other flowers . |
| 11 | Although specialist training is not a requirement to practise as a counsellor , a professional may occasionally refer a patient to a specialist counsellor in the same way that a doctor may refer medical problems to a specialist colleague . |
| 12 | At worst he was boring , in the same way that a golfer or a photographer or a dinghy-sailor or any other person obsessed by a hobby is boring . |
| 13 | She stepped back , massaging her wrist and looking at Hrun in much the same way that a cat watches a mousehole . |
| 14 | A tenant could be held responsible for an absentee landlord , in the same way that a married couple and partners living together as husband and wife will be responsible for each other . |
| 15 | " Power " , for example , is an ordinal attribute in which we might want to talk about individuals having " more " or " less " power than others and to reflect this in using the power of numbers to reflect " more " or " less " of some attribute in the same way that a higher number score on a test signifies a greater ability to do the test than a lower number . |
| 16 | The word ‘ sweet ’ is used so often throughout the scene that it loses all worth , in the same way that a Chaucerian epithet such as ‘ fresshe ’ comes to mean almost the opposite when continually applied to January 's wife May in The Merchant 's Tale . |
| 17 | Quite , providing there was only one representative , and we were n't overburdened , providing it was clearly understood that they were there almost in the same way that a local member would be , to speak on a given item , and not to vote , then I do n't think we 'd have any objections , but it 's entirely up to the Committee , how do you feel ? |
| 18 | Literary studies in action approaches the study of literature in the same way that a comparatively naive undergraduate reader approaches it : as a conglomeration of linguistic and literary forms , functions and meanings , all operating at once and all of which have somehow to be deciphered in order to gain access to the text , and explained in order to facilitate the production of adequate essays . |
| 19 | I am not saying that a bream leader dishes out orders to his underlings in the same way that an army commander does . |
| 20 | She should have been treated in the same way that an older man would be dealt with for corrupting a young girl . |
| 21 | A shake of the table on which it was standing would bring the pile down in exactly the same way that an earthquake shakes houses down . |
| 22 | From behind two hands gripped his shoulders in much the same way that an old tree root coils relentlessly around a pebble . |
| 23 | His illusions started with reality too , that made the jumping-off point , in the same way that an illusionist on stage has a real girl ; they had to have near possibility , nothing too extreme , not at the beginning anyway . |
| 24 | It is almost as if the modern mind , unable to tolerate cultural restraints , and feeling that discontent in civilization which Freud described long ago , had become so intolerant of the demands of communal existence and civilized behaviour that it saw each and every representative of those restraints as an incitement to revolt rather in the same way that an enraged revolutionary mob , thirsting for the blood of its oppressors , might fall on some unfortunate bystander merely because he happened to bear a resemblance to the head of the secret police . |
| 25 | For example , in the Amerindian language Cubeo , the main protagonists and their actions in a story are tagged by a particle in such a systematic way that a concise and accurate precis is obtained if just those sentences containing the particle are extracted ( see Longacre , 1976a for many such cases in this and other Amerindian languages ; and Anderson & Keenan , in press , re the so-called fourth person category in Algonquian languages , really a discourse-deictic category ) . |
| 26 | If the word " real " in the sense of " actual " or " actually existent " has any discernible function at all , then it is only to indicate in a roundabout way that a certain proposition , or propositions , are actally true ; and " true " , as we have just seen , is itself eliminable as a propositional predicate . |