Example sentences of "way that [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tunnard ( 1989 ) makes some excellent suggestions about ways this can be achieved , including : improving ways of providing emergency protection for children at times of crisis by drawing upon the support of the extended family and local community ; involving parents in decision making , providing parents ' representatives and encouraging the development of local support groups ; improving what happens after separation by offering children and families choices about what can be done , and ensuring contact is promoted and maintained ; dealing with sexual abuse cases in ways that help non-abusing parents to avoid taking a defensive position and that give them the resources and support they need to be able to protect their children . |
| 2 | Dorothy Wordsworth found fulfilment in ways that elude precise analysis . |
| 3 | In such associations , each partner is inevitably modified ; colours may be intensified or assimilated ; commonalities may be enhanced in ways that enable perceptual abstractions to be made without relinquishing any of the context from which the singled out entities draw life . |
| 4 | Sometimes there is , especially when one has to act on one 's beliefs in ways that affect other people . |
| 5 | We sought to strengthen Welsh Office planning guidance in ways that encourage good design , prevent abuse and minimise the environmental impact of necessary development . |
| 6 | In a bureaucracy such as a pollution control agency , the organizing principle is administrative efficiency — ‘ an orientation to the expeditious attainment of the given objectives ’ ( Blau , 1963 : 264 ) — which reaches down to the field officer in the form of a number of imperatives about getting the job done in certain ways that have profound implications for his exercise of discretion . |
| 7 | This approach places a heavy emphasis on the institutions of the state alone ; it describes institutions and institutional relationships in suffocating detail ; and because it focuses on constitutional " law " quite uncritically it tends to see the connections between state and society formally , simply , and legalistically in a way that ignores informal patterns of power in society and economy . |
| 8 | However , fourteenth-century people were sometimes buried with a purchased Indulgence , and there is at the Ashmolean Museum , Oxford , a small latten figure , not much more than four inches high , of a man in a winding-sheet which might have been enclosed within the folds of the shroud , in the same way that stamped leaden crosses were used up to the seventeenth century , to foil Satan 's attempts to claim the deceased 's soul as his own ; the date of manufacture of the Ashmolean item is indeterminate , but it seems doubtful that such an item would have been produced much after c.1550 . |
| 9 | An interesting contrast has been observed in the way that separate British riots were reported . |
| 10 | Rights are a central issue in being assertive ( see page 8 ) , since a decision to be assertive , as opposed to aggressive or submissive , is in effect a decision to stand up for your rights in a way that respects other people 's rights . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The common ground between acting and caricaturing is obvious : both seek to convey personality in a way that prompts total recognition . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The implication ( 33 ) 5 , that the day of speaking is other than Wednesday or Thursday , is also due to deixis ( explained in Chapter z ) , for the word Thursday in utterance ( iii ) is used in a deictic way that invokes pragmatic parameters ( there are other usages that do not , e.g. Pay day is Thursday ) . |
| 17 | Nor had American diplomatic assistance been offered in a way that soothed British feelings . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | But more than this , we have a vivid sense of the loneliness of the human observer , set apart from his surroundings , and of " a mind energetically stretching to subdue a dazzling experience outside the self in a way that has innumerable counterparts elsewhere in Conrad " . |
| 20 | But shades of personal experience with one or more previous transactions may colour the lender 's attitudes in a way that bars whole groups from credit — even though individuals within those groups might be perfectly reliable payers . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | But he was saying it in a way that implied possible assent . |