Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] a [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a remarkably simple idea , which IBM argues can act as a practical way of connecting existing islands of automation . |
| 2 | Returning to the argument in The Future of an Illusion an imaginary antagonist argues that civilization depends upon people continuing to believe in God , otherwise they will not act in a moral way . |
| 3 | GPs who volunteer to hold practice budgets will act in a similar way for those services for which they are responsible . |
| 4 | A pun can act in a similar way to metaphor , pointing to a coalescence of concepts normally distinct . |
| 5 | They 'll improve on it , or they might adapt it , see if they can change it in some way in that case , and they 'll act in a cohesive way . |
| 6 | In fact , it was one of the few times I had seen him act in a civil way towards his stepmother . |
| 7 | Psychology usually assumes that psychologists can act in a neutral way . |
| 8 | The typical case is one in which a factual statement points out that a situation is one of the kind in which an ethical statement asserts that a certain obligation holds , that is , one in which it has expressed the wish that people should act in a certain way or meet the disfavour of others . |
| 9 | Love makes you act in a certain way even — and this is the crunch — when you are not feeling very loving . |
| 10 | A legitimate expectation may arise when a government agency , by its words or conduct , leads a citizen reasonably to expect that it will act in a particular way . |
| 11 | There are certain other circumstances in which this problem of unduly encouraging an authority to reach a particular decision does not arise and in which a scheme of compensation might be feasible and desirable : where there is no question of a decision being re-made , notably where the time-limit for challenging an allegedly illegal decision has run out ( through no fault of the applicant ) ; or where a citizen has suffered loss by relying on a representation by a public body that it will act in a particular way , in circumstances where the law will not require the body to make good its representation because it has undertaken to act illegally ; or where a court exercises its discretion not to quash an illegal decision In such cases the problem of causation does not exist because the decision in question will not be reconsidered . |
| 12 | It is part of our collective political morality that such compromises are wrong , that the community as a whole and not just individual officials one by one must act in a principled way . |
| 13 | In the first three sentences , be obviously has its " activity " sense and one gets the impression of continuous efforts of the subject in order to make himself behave in a calculating manner , to make his followers act in an orderly way or to keep someone quiet . |
| 14 | That is why if Jill knowingly leads Jim to expect that she will behave in a certain way she bears a responsibility to prevent harm to Jim as a result of this reliance , and so on . |
| 15 | The more usual alternative however is to explain our discovery as being due to a certain causal process , something within us that makes us behave in a certain way . |
| 16 | Thus , one might characterize one 's grasp on the experience of seeming to see a red object as something is going on in me ( I do n't know what it is ) which is like what goes on when a red object is acting on my eyes ; or … like what goes on in me to make me behave in a red-object-appropriate way . |
| 17 | Guth suggested that the universe might behave in a similar way : the temperature might drop below the critical value without the symmetry between the forces being broken . |
| 18 | The answer might seem to be that experience tells us that nation states are a key fact of the current world and that they plainly do often behave in a self-interested way . |
| 19 | The obligation of modesty is on both men and women ; men are also required to dress and behave in a modest way . |
| 20 | Anything that makes it more likely that a child will behave in a particular way . |
| 21 | Indeed , wherever assistance is defined as a gift ( rather than , for example , part of a broader pattern of exchange ) , it is likely to be regarded as inappropriate that the potential beneficiary should behave in an instrumental way towards the potential donor . |
| 22 | The outrage eagerly orchestrated by the newspaper did not focus in a serious way on the needs and dangers facing rape survivors . |
| 23 | I mean , we do make all sorts of allowances with exams you know , people repeat words and th and they can leave words out and they ca n't think of a eloquent way of expressing that something at the spur of the moment so it 's |
| 24 | Whatever a non-teaching staff member 's job , she or he may contribute in a positive way to its success . |
| 25 | You do speak in a strange way , like the old eagles used to . ’ |
| 26 | It did n't speak in a natural way as modern computers do . |
| 27 | Exports can therefore benefit in a similar way . |
| 28 | Interactive computer programs can present in a powerful way ideas , facts and basic techniques . |
| 29 | For he does not allow that there can be someone who genuinely asks himself what he should do in a moral way , but whose answer is in terms of what is only one of various logically coherent moralities . |
| 30 | The gauntlet was down , the opportunity to talk to arrange a forum , to come together , land owners , local authorities , the hunt 's people , er the interested parties , to come together and look for a decent way of hunting and that way is probably drag hunting and we 're giving you a golden opportunity to start that route . |