Example sentences of "[art] way as [to-vb] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Edwards ( 1979 , 16 ) , for example , characterises the situation as one where for most of the twentieth century management have met ‘ chronic resistance to their effort to compel production ’ and consequently ‘ have attempted to organize production in such a way as to minimise opportunities for resistance and even to alter workers ’ perceptions of the desirability of opposition ’ . |
| 2 | It was clear that in the preceding year share prices in global financial markets had risen in such a way as to force yields down several points below gilt yields ( see Fig. 17.7 ) . |
| 3 | To answer that immediate need , the British government has been agonising over how to offer a single tranche of passports , perhaps 100,000 , to Hong Kong , in such a way as to target recipients whom it believes play vital roles in the public and private sector . |
| 4 | The tapestries and wall-paintings look slightly different to different people , in such a way as to foster thoughts of distrust and discord between them . |
| 5 | The process of law enforcement , in its broadest possible interpretation , operates in such a way as to conceal crimes of the powerful against the powerless , but to reveal and exaggerate crimes of the powerless against ‘ everyone ’ . |
| 6 | Hoyle proposed that the magnetic force lines , twisted and contorted , interacted with the Sun 's surface in such a way as to produce regions where the nuclear reactions that power the Sun were subdued . |
| 7 | Power was indeed divided , in such a way as to place restraints upon popularly elected assemblies ; and it was the view of Hamilton that a representative democracy avoided the dangers clearly inherent in " simple democracy " : When the deliberative or judicial powers are vested wholly or partly in the collective body of the people , you must expect error , confusion and instability . |
| 8 | Disorderly conduct bears the same significance as it does in the section 5 offence , and is likely to involve conduct such as shouting or singing in such a way as to alarm persons near by , uncertainty of gait , staggering , lurching or swaying , and behaviour that causes people to take evasive action . |
| 9 | Even the payment of players was regulated in such a way as to prevent clubs competing in a free market for talent . |
| 10 | Under the terms of this formula resources in the NHS were distributed in such a way as to favour areas of the country traditionally under-provided with services , such as the Trent region in the Midlands . |
| 11 | The 1986 Act states ( in section 46 ) that sex education should be given in such a way as to encourage pupils to ‘ have due regard to moral considerations and the value of family life ’ . |
| 12 | There were no sudden changes in direction even though employers and government began to modify their attitudes towards trade unions in such a way as to encourage negotiations at the highest level . |
| 13 | Though her job is to translate as faithfully as possible , this process is replicated in her mind by ‘ bad copies ’ in which analogous discursive systems are conjoined in such a way as to emphasize disparities between them or unexpected parallels . |
| 14 | But then , either Hobbes has failed to distinguish the child from at least the higher and domesticated animals or the force of ‘ intelligently ’ must be explained in such a way as to exclude animals . |
| 15 | These must be addressed in such a way as to help pupils to see that the questions are open ones , worthy of their attention throughout life . |
| 16 | Indeed , it can draw the line in such a way as to make synonyms of the terms form and content . |
| 17 | Epigenetic rules have been demonstrated in virtually every category of cognition and behaviour investigated in such a way as to distinguish choices among stimuli . |