Example sentences of "[vb infin] in [adj] [art] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | If monks could act in such a way , tormenting relics , it was hardly surprising that ordinary people resorted to spells and superstitious practices . |
| 2 | We accept then that , responsibility or no responsibility , commission or no commission , prices may behave in such a way that profits rise faster than a certain rate , that rate being the rate at which incomes other than profits — or perhaps incomes including profits ? — are increasing . |
| 3 | It was something that Harriet had particularly noticed and which made her both angry yet hopeful : angry that her daughter could not or would not always behave in such a way and hopeful that perhaps some day Liza would come to her senses and throw off the mask of invalidism behind which Harriet felt sure she was hiding . |
| 4 | ‘ Gina , ’ said Carlo reproachfully , ‘ how can you speak in such a way ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Askeo ’ means to train , exercise , endeavour , and Paul exhorts Corinthian Christians to ‘ run in such a way as to get the prize . ’ |
| 6 | There were no grounds for assuming that the capitalist state would work in such a way as to meet the needs of the system . |
| 7 | In order to accommodate its growing occupant , the shell must enlarge in such a way as to preserve its original form . |
| 8 | ‘ … left to itself the market will function in such a way as to cause great harm to the interests of young people , companies and taxpayers alike . ’ |
| 9 | As an example , an octahedral d 7 ion with a filled t 2g ( lower ) set of d orbitals and a single electron in the doubly-degenerate e g upper set would distort in such a way that the e g levels split , such as by an elongation along the z-axis , giving a tetragonal ligand arrangement as in Fig. 6.26(c) . |
| 10 | It may have brought much comfort ( or much discomfort ! ) , it may have been continuing or a once only meeting but nevertheless was important in that another Christian was alongside to listen and share in such a way that you travelled on encouraged . |
| 11 | The first has already been dealt with in Chapter 6 when we discussed Friedman 's rehabilitation of Pigou 's theory of labour market adjustment : in a competitive market economy , relative prices will respond in such a way as to eliminate any chance discrepancy between the demands for and supplies of goods and factors of production . |
| 12 | Then I began to foresee our mutual embarrassment if events should develop in such a way which would force me to reveal my professional identity . |
| 13 | It is only under special sets of conditions that the anomalies can develop in such a way as to undermine confidence in the paradigm . |
| 14 | With a little imagination the soft conventionalist could draft some even more abstract proposition everyone does accept , which he might then elaborate in such a way as to validate a proposition of law about snail darters . |
| 15 | Nor can they reason in such a way as to make their contribution relevant to the volatile , hurried and stressful conditions of commercial and industrial life . |
| 16 | It seems essential that the school should operate in such a way that all staff , including non-teaching staff , have the opportunity to think together about its work in a way that deepens understanding of aims and moves towards genuinely shared values . |
| 17 | ‘ Well , how the Caliph of Egypt would punish in such a way anybody who transgressed his command . |
| 18 | But even to consider getting involved with someone who could talk in such a way … well , that would be to enter dangerous waters indeed . |
| 19 | The single-cell layer of the wall will lie in such a way that it is in contact with the mother 's blood supply , burrowing into the capillaries ( thread-like blood vessels ) to obtain nutrition via the mother 's blood — only the first few days ' nutrition comes from within the blastocyst itself . |