Example sentences of "way as [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | This chapter explores the possibility of defining these assembly relationships in such ways as to provide a desired function . |
| 2 | This increases the money supply in the same way as does a balance of payments surplus . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The Thatcher fiscal revolution — redistributing income to those with most — must be reversed , but in such a way as to extend an incentive-based society to all taxpayers , and particularly those at the bottom of the income pile . |
| 5 | In short , statistics relating to old people are presented in such a way as to spread a great deal of gloom about the future , not only for the old themselves but for society at large . |
| 6 | For our purposes , measurement can be characterised as the assignment of numbers to some property in such a way as to effect a one-to-one correspondence between the character of the numbers and the characteristics of the property being measured . |
| 7 | Lesbian and Gay-Men 's Sub-Committees were set up in such a way as to give a high level of representation to people from outside the council 's structure , and to ensure that their voices could be heard . |
| 8 | In fact , some of these practices have also been applied to political communication ; an election broadcast or a staged political event is constructed in such a way as to elicit a pre-determined and desired response . |
| 9 | ( 2 ) In view of different legal and institutional starting positions with regard to the employment of mothers and fathers , its shall be the task of the all-German legislator to shape the legal situation in such as way as to allow a reconciliation of family and occupational life . |
| 10 | As you rightly say , the present border was drawn on a sectarian head count in such a way as to include a large area which has never consented to partition . |
| 11 | In the 1960s Kenyatta manipulated sales of formerly white-owned land and businesses in such a way as to create a new class of Kenyan capitalists to replace the old white capitalists , in a no-nonsense determination to both preserve the private sector and to transfer its ownership into African hands . |
| 12 | The light greens by and large believe that the system of which we are all a part is perfectible , that it could be reformed in such a way as to create a sustainable , environmentally friendly way of living . |
| 13 | The sexual behaviour of blacks has hardly been controlled in such a way as to create a gene pool in which specific physical traits related to power , speed and agility became dominant . |
| 14 | On one level , it sought to frame the public debate ( why only three options ? why not four or five ? ) in such a way as to create a consensus around his policy . |
| 15 | Indeed , montage plays a crucial role in enriching the reader 's view of reality , for narrative units are arranged in such a way as to create an interplay , so that they bring fresh perspectives to bear on one another and are mutually illuminating . |
| 16 | The essence of Hollywood was that it used actors who became real before the camera ; they were not ciphers there to be manipulated by an all-powerful director but they were actors who were able to combine natural qualities and varied skills and techniques in such a way as to create an on-camera identity . |
| 17 | Nowadays , most political scientists no longer praise the responsibility of our party system but instead talk of , and condemn , our system of " adversary politics " , where an " electoral auction " is said to lead to an irresponsible " elective dictatorship " , which then manages the economy in such a way as to create an injurious " political-business cycle " that hinders our long-term economic growth . |
| 18 | The basic rule of liability was stated in Goodfellow : has the accused acted in such a way as to create an obvious and serious risk of causing physical harm and , having recognised it , gone ahead , or not given any thought to that risk ? |
| 19 | But a context normally also acts in such a way as to cause a single sense , from among those associated with any ambiguous word form , to become operative . |
| 20 | Had we had her account available our guess is that it would have been expressed in such a way as to suggest a quite different kind of story , where personal rather than biological matters were at issue . |
| 21 | Increasingly , researchers have attempted to conceptualize speaker variables in such a way as to solve a widening range of substantive problems . |
| 22 | But once the Parliamentary material was brought to our attention , it seemed to me , as , I believe , to others of your Lordships who had heard the appeal first argued , to raise an acute question as to whether it could possibly be right to give effect to taxing legislation in such a way as to impose a tax which the Financial Secretary to the Treasury , during the passage of the Bill containing the relevant provision , had , in effect , assured the House of Commons it was not intended to impose . |
| 23 | On the basis of her understanding , it appears that any artist in the USA who uses the conventions of the mass media in such a way as to produce a critique of the media ( and I can think of a good many ) is veritably a ‘ quasi-situationist ’ . |
| 24 | As the factories Act case illustrates , the courts sometimes Allow themselves to construe a statute in such a way as to produce a reasonable result , even though this involves departing from the prima facie meaning of the words . |
| 25 | He singled out for special criticism two specific objectives which had figured so prominently in the application of Keynesian ideas : ( a ) the notion that the proper focus of attention for monetary policy was the attainment of targets for the rate of interest as opposed to targets for the supply of money ; ( b ) that demand management policies could be adjusted in such a way as to achieve a target combination of inflation and unemployment which was sustainable indefinitely . |
| 26 | The problem is that the ‘ well-constructed ’ or ‘ textbook ’ ad is liable to be extremely boring unless it embodies a really good idea , and that it is possible for a skilled creative person to bend the ‘ rules ’ of construction in such a way as to make a moderately good idea look or sound much better . |
| 27 | ‘ The role of the Welsh Office is to … ensure that planning legislation and guidelines balance the needs of the environment and the need for new properties in such a way as to maintain a sufficient supply of new homes at minimal cost to the environment . ’ |
| 28 | One possibility is to conduct monetary and budgetary policies in such a way as to maintain a steadily expanding flow of total money expenditure on the products of labour , and so on labour itself . |
| 29 | The really important task facing all religions is whether these particular categorical assertions can be unpacked in such a way as to reveal a piece of the jigsaw which fits with others . |
| 30 | In this process a particular economic system or mode of production , a political system or form of the state , and cultural norms , although they undergo a partly autonomous development , are nevertheless connected with each other in such a way as to reproduce a total society . |