Example sentences of "[vb pp] in [det] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is impossible to know the extent to which this knowledge had a reactive effect in the field , although the research was designed in such a way as to try to establish , as well as one ever could , whether there was a mask behind which respondents were concealing their true behaviour and feelings . |
| 2 | Part of the training is here to make that point very clear : the aircraft/avionics interface is designed in such a way that there can be no failure which will end in loss of control authority , but one must of course invest time and effort to understand the procedures . |
| 3 | For it was always possible to argue that a primordial molecular arrangement had been designed in such a way that the universe , as we know it , would be the outcome . |
| 4 | Er , in a number of ways I think everybody will agree that it 's been improved by er the er demolition of the terrace blocks , rather than refurbishment and the opportunity has been taken to create erm perhaps a a more comfortable relationship between bungalows that are about to be refurbished and the new houses , because the new houses are designed in such a way as to keep the scale down so whereas the terraced blocks were anything up to four storey , the new houses will only be two storey and in a number of cases they will they will be a relatively low two storey so that erm I will just point out on the front elevations that the roof comes down fairly low relative to the first floor windows so that it 's not too much above the , the roofs on the bungalows , we 're not talking about compromising people 's heads on the internal though ! |
| 5 | The Panopticon was designed in such a way that prisoners were under constant surveillance by inspectors in a central observa-tion tower . |
| 6 | A suggested alternative , the worker-controlled enterprise , will be discussed towards the end of the chapter , and in particular whether worker-controlled firms can be designed in such a way that participation is not bought at the price of rendering the economy as a whole substantially less efficient . |
| 7 | The five oligonucleotides shown in Fig. 5 were designed in such a way that the two motifs GGGCCC and AAAAA are differentially separated . |
| 8 | Thus care in indexing is essential and systems should be designed in such a way as to minimize the possibility of error . |
| 9 | The questionnaire was therefore designed in such a way that teachers who had not seen the Solihull booklet would not complete part one . |
| 10 | Software , could be designed in such a way that it can be exchanged and regularly updated including information on subjects such as C O S H H , labour law and industrial relations and social groupings within the G M B structure . |
| 11 | Computer equipment may be designed in such a way that it is aesthetically pleasing as well as functional , there may be something novel about the design which falls short of the scope of patents . |
| 12 | The Kuwait the Kuwait cities are designed in such a way that the military installations and erm are outside the country , so from the eyewitnesses that we receive that all the bombings are on the outskirts of the city , no damage to Kuwait City or to the civilians inside Kuwait . |
| 13 | Lord Parker 's response to that suggestion was that no offence had been committed in any event because , even if it could be said that such conduct was insulting ( which he doubted ) most men approached in such a way are not likely to resort to violence . |
| 14 | ‘ What becomes more difficult , and what the geoscientists , drillers and completions people all work to ensure , is that the well is drilled in such a way as to make the completion process as routine as possible . ’ |
| 15 | Each instruction is encoded in such a way that it can be held in a store location , so that the store contains both the data being operated on and the program of instructions specifying the operations to be performed . |
| 16 | Lieberman and Michaels ( 1962 ) found that they could get reasonably accurate recognition of attitudes using short recording of sentences spoken in different ways , but that when the recordings were distorted in such a way that most acoustic information was removed ( e.g. the speech sounds , voice quality , loudness variations etc. ) leaving only the pitch information — that part traditionally equated with intonation — listeners ' ability to recognise the attitudes was seriously reduced . |
| 17 | While complete impartiality can not always be expected in such a case , the obligations of natural justice or fairness may still require that a minister hear representations . |
| 18 | While it is true that many large Victorian family houses have been successfully converted into small flats , the smaller suburban-style houses built in the 1920s and 1930s and copied in the ‘ garden cities ’ and new towns of the 1940s are less amenable to conversion and are often located in such a way within the city that they will have an effect on the life-style and employment opportunities of men and women for generations to come ( McDowell , 1983 ) . |
| 19 | Hambledon District Council believes that insufficient regard has been payed erm to these issues erm in the structure plan alteration , in paragraph thirty three the P P G sets down a list of criteria erm to which local authorities er should refer erm , I 'll erm refer specifically to er to three of them and I and and comeback to them as I go through erm erm what I want to say , erm the first one I draw that I would draw the panel 's attention to is erm that the alternative of the expansion of existing towns or villages should represent a less satisfactory method at providing the land for housing that is needed , and it 's a rhetorical question really here , erm and w we would ask that erm if there has n't been a comparative appraisal erm of the two options , and how could there be , there 's no erm district or areas been identified , how can we be certain that one option is better than another under the terms of that er criterion , erm the oth second point we would draw the panel 's attention is that the proposal is a clear expression of local preference supported by the local planning authorities , and again I would emphasize there that Hambledon District Council objects , and the third one is the option of a new settlement in preference to the alternative would result in positive environmental improvements , and I 'll return to that erm briefly in relation to er to Hambledon , P P G twelve erm paragraph six one four that 's been referred to it , includes a check list of issues against which areas in for new development in general er need to be er considered , with particular reference for reducing the need for travel , erm amongst these issues that the P P G asked the Councils to take into account erm are that development should make full and effective use of land within existing urban areas , that developments er should consider development patterns that are closely related to public transport net networks , and in relation to housing , and that housing is located in such a way as to minimize car use for journeys to work , school , and other local facilities , P P G thirteen , and I would expect erm I would agree with what Mr Donson has said here , is that it it 's draft and obviously one has to put the appropriate weight on it , but erm this reinforces and expands upon erm established government policy , reducing the need for travel , erm I do n't think it 's necessary for me to go into er the quotes in detail , I think that those have been er been touched on , erm , however , I would say erm that Hambledon District Council believes that the advice in draft P P G thirteen is much less supportive of new settlements , it suggests that greater weight must be given to the environmental implications of the additional traffic generated by new settlements erm this is , erm we believe , particularly important in view of the fact that a new settlement for York is unlikely to be self contained , and by its nature many of the residents will still look to York for essential services , social links , and employment , turning to the residual requirement , erm we have a concern over this , erm clearly a new settlement is intended to mop up any residual requirement which the er policy sets at fourteen hundred dwellings , we 've heard evidence from York today that er the city can accommodate erm more erm houses than was originally envisaged , which brings the residual requirement to erm about the minimum size specified by the County Council as being erm about the right level erm to make a s a new settlement self supporting , however , we would point out that there is still the possibility of erm further peripheral development around York , the greenbelt local plan and Southern Ryedale local plan er have not yet been statutory adopted , the inspector has n't reported on those , we do n't know what he 's going to say about sites er which were at issue , or on the need for flexibility between the inner erm boundary of the greenbelt and the city , irrespective of course of what the inspector says , erm being not yet statutory adopted the County and Ryedale will still have the opportunity to consider , reconsider there policies there , but putting that aside for the present , erm even if it is established that er the requirement for nine thousand seven hundred houses erm ca n't a occupied by er can be accommodated by er peripheral development , erm this does n't it does n't necessarily follow that the answer has to be a new settlement , we heard yesterday in erm great detail that erm environmental considerations have justified a reduction in the rate of development in other districts , erm in the county , I would point out that a relatively modest reduction erm in the inward migration to Ryedale , Selby , and York , could mop up the residual requirement , if one looks at erm the reasons for the greenbelt it is perhaps surprising that given the importance attached to maintaining its historic form and character that this is not an issue erm that 's been considered . |
| 20 | The cry of the human infant ( and this effect applies especially if it is one 's own ) is pitched at a level , and varied in such a way , as to be nigh impossible to ignore or get used to . |
| 21 | The really important task facing all religions is whether these particular categorical assertions can be unpacked in such a way as to reveal a piece of the jigsaw which fits with others . |
| 22 | What it actually means erm is that er there is unlikely to be a by-pass for some time , but in effect that would be likely to be the case anyway , one because of the cost of the by-pass overall and secondly because of the erm position with regard to other aspects of the roads programme and the level of T S G that we are currently receiving er even if there was an agreed line as of today erm bearing in mind the th the other things that have happened in the roads programme , it still would be unlikely that the by-pass would be er programmed in such a way that it would allow housing or other development to take place in East Grinstead within either the structure plan period or the local plan period and hence the points that then er that the report moves on to erm come into play . |
| 23 | Learning is a process whereby knowledge , skills and attitudes are acquired or modified in such a way that human behaviour is more or less permanently changed . |
| 24 | If things are really bad , you are getting nowhere and you feel that an argument is developing , the best action is to state politely that you are not willing to be interviewed in such a manner , that you are clearly wasting one another 's time and you have decided to leave . |
| 25 | These drills should be tabulated in such a way that the substitution item is clearly displayed . |
| 26 | This is the main purpose of this last part of Losing Out , and the proposals are broached in such a way as to appeal to a wider section of the electorate than the underclass alone . |
| 27 | Charles could picture the smugness with which Alex Household would have sat in such a sanctuary and discussed the frenetic activities of the Taunton company . |
| 28 | It had been a deep and tub-like pram , and they had used it to convey her from place to place long after she had been of an age to be confined in such a vehicle . |
| 29 | The kinematics approach recognizes that the mechanism is constrained in such a way that only a prescribed motion is possible ; a mechanism that is randomly assembled and disassembled with no known input conditions is hardly a mechanism and is impossible to analyse by any method . |
| 30 | What might be included in such a checklist for the reform of the DHAs ? |