Example sentences of "it [prep] a way [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Newley sings it in a way that personalises it . |
| 2 | He would have to move into a school where the powerful names were still Bethune-Baker ( though he was retired ) and Marsh and Raven and he would be , intellectually speaking , up against it in a way that he was not at Durham . |
| 3 | They tell it in a way that makes it make sense . |
| 4 | If girls deviate , they tend to do it in a way that causes far less disruption than boys , such as pretending to write when they are bored . |
| 5 | But he was saying it in a way that implied possible assent . |
| 6 | I have become much more aware of the workings of my body and have begun to use it in a way that is much more economical . |
| 7 | If you give me leave , I will do it in a way that would not dishonour your forebears . ’ |
| 8 | Even when he makes mistakes he does it in a way that still brings results and takes him over the gain line . |
| 9 | Said John Thompson , IBM vice-president and Application Business Systems general manager , ‘ We will implement RISC [ on the AS/400 ] , but not until it catches up with the AS/400 architecture , which we think is more advanced … and until we can do it in a way that wo n't disrupt the customer 's applications . ’ |
| 10 | Having arrived at a suitable total for local authority expenditure , the next problem is how to express it in a way that allows comparisons to be made either with other contemporary expenditures or with local authority expenditure over time . |
| 11 | A text , says Furman , quoting the French semiotician Roland Barthes , is a reading of a text : a reader , like a musician faced with a score , appropriates it in a way that is meaningful . |
| 12 | Mosquitoes also use sound as a mating call , but they produce and receive it in a way that is all their own . |
| 13 | If that does n't work , look again at the word , and say it in a way that will remind you of how it is spelled : say Wed-nes-day ; clim-bed , and pronounce the bits separately ; but remember how the word really sounds . |
| 14 | And in the afternoon , at the time he was drowned , her mother would call her inside and bolt the door , and they would kneel together and say the rosary for the soul of the father she had never known ; and when all those Hail Mary 's had been said , and the Glory Be 's and the Our Father , and they had made the sign of the Cross together , her mother would pull out the silver Madonna she always kept hidden at her breast and press her lips to it in a way that said everything you needed to know about love and death and being a woman . |
| 15 | Could you have labelled it in a way that would sort of help yourself more ? |
| 16 | I just … . it 's just that I wanted to tell her how sorry I am about … about what happened to your father and brother but , not knowing her , I did n't want to say it in a way that might upset her . |
| 17 | Nevertheless he did not base his decision upon section 25 , but held that the sellers ' lien was defeated because the sellers , who knew in advance of the sub-sale , had assented to it in a way that indicated their intention to forego the lien . |
| 18 | I try to do it in a way that is n't too threatening and allows the opportunity to discuss things . ’ |
| 19 | You need to structure it in a way that fits in with the argument that you 're go the line of argument you 're going to be putting before the magistrate . |
| 20 | If , as is postulated here , usage is determined by the meaning to be expressed , the answer must be that there are two different ways of conceiving causation in English , make representing it in a way that calls for the bare infinitive , cause in a way requiring the representation of abstract movement in time signified by to . |
| 21 | A woman 's world was more private , she was in charge of it in a way that you could n't be if you were a man . |
| 22 | She tried to break from his grasp , but as she spoke he released the arm still pinned at her side and placed his hand on the curve of her neck , fondling it in a way that reminded her of an actor she 'd once seen playing Henry VIII just before a beheading scene . |
| 23 | This great designer has an uncanny ability to capture the prevailing mood of the moment and to rework it in a way that can suddenly seem understandable , even wearable , and invariably highly influential . |
| 24 | This is your day and we will endeavour to organise it in a way that reflects your needs and requirements . |
| 25 | If you do that , then I think that even though your own values are bound to be in it a bit , they wo n't be in it in a way that makes the work useless or makes it appear hopefully prejudiced to someone else . |
| 26 | And that 's money we have to spend , and it in a way that was a controversial decision because members of the Council were genuinely concerned about spending money on what might be seen to be central services , when they were having to face not improving staffing in elderly persons ' homes . |