Example sentences of "way that [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The central problem developed when the participatory nature of ritual was destroyed and replaced with a concept of a god who had no need for the feelings of people , who was placed above them in ways that made any behaviour other than worship and penitence irrelevant . |
| 2 | Dorothy Wordsworth found fulfilment in ways that elude precise analysis . |
| 3 | What we share , the captain and us , is mastery of time — the freedom to order our day in ways that make better use of it . |
| 4 | We sought to strengthen Welsh Office planning guidance in ways that encourage good design , prevent abuse and minimise the environmental impact of necessary development . |
| 5 | Moreover , public support for the system has become problematic in a way that poses some kind of challenge to the legitimacy and authority of the state itself . |
| 6 | Marcus had embarrassed Bill — as well as hurting him — in a way that outstripped any mischief or shock Bill had ever caused . |
| 7 | Under this it must come forward with a Plan of Operations that shows how quarrying can take place in a way that minimises environmental damage and nuisance . |
| 8 | The common ground between acting and caricaturing is obvious : both seek to convey personality in a way that prompts total recognition . |
| 9 | It now looks a big mistake to have joined the ERM at all , at any exchange rate , without first having created political institutions capable of running monetary policy in a way that takes due consideration of the needs of all members of the European Community . |
| 10 | James winded ; his attacker sprawling over him punching , and thrusting with his thick trunk in a way that prevented any return blow . |
| 11 | Neo-Realists see states as able to control international economic transactions in a way that restores explanatory power to Realist assumptions about the role of the power-maximizing state . |
| 12 | I shall argue that he overstates the significance that can be attributed to literacy in itself : that he lends authority to a language for describing literacy practices that often contradicts even his own stated disclaimers of the ‘ strong ’ case ; that he understates the qualities of oral communication ; that he sets up unhelpful and often untestable polarities between , for instance , the ‘ potentialities ’ of literacy and ‘ restricted literacy ’ ; and that he polarises the differences between oral and literate modes of communication in a way that gives insufficient credit to the reality of ‘ mixed ’ and interacting modes . |
| 13 | Questioned on whether the party 's credibility to campaign on such issues had not been hurt by its vote with the Government in order to secure seats for Scottish representatives on the European Community 's Committee of the Regions , Mr Salmond said the SNP was ‘ entitled to vote in such a way that secures better representation for the people of Scotland . ’ |
| 14 | Governments may intervene in the railways in a way that undermines managerial autonomy and responsibility , but which makes sense from the point of view of political symbols and messages about productivity and efficiency ; this will become clearer from the case studies in later chapters . |
| 15 | Instead an elder ( like any human ) is understood as having enough power to act in a way that makes some difference to what happens . |
| 16 | By discriminating between different goods and services , indirect taxes can help reallocate resources in a way that raises economic welfare for society as a whole . |
| 17 | But he was saying it in a way that implied possible assent . |