Example sentences of "behave in [adj] [art] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | To contemporary commentators like Fyvel , the only other section of the population who behaved in such a way were the homosexuals ; what he did n't know was that this pursuit of pleasure , and concentration on self , were exactly those traits that would become desirable , and eventually , socially acceptable , with the extraordinary success of Elvis Presley and the Teen age that followed . |
| 2 | Here they behaved in such a way as to convince the ASS officers that their lives and those of others were under threat , hence the decision to fire . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | that the respondent has behaved in such a way that the petitioner can not reasonably be expected to live with him ( or her ) ; |
| 6 | that the respondent has behaved in such a way that the applicant can not reasonably be expected to live with the respondent ; or |
| 7 | The petitioner still had to prove breakdown by demonstrating one ( or more ) of the following ‘ facts ’ : that the respondent had committed adultery ; that the respondent had behaved in such a way that the petitioner could not reasonably be expected to live with the respondent ; that the respondent had deserted the petitioner for a continuous period of at least two years ; that the parties had lived apart for a continuous period of at least two years and that the respondent consented to a decree being granted ; or that the parties had lived apart for a continuous period of at least five years . |
| 8 | That the respondent has behaved in such a way that the petitioner can not reasonably be expected to live with the respondent . |
| 9 | They offered no theory as to why the child behaved in such a way , no external event was allowed an explanatory status ; rather the outburst was reflected back to the personality of the child , who was said to have a very angry liver ( the liver being the seat of inner states ) . |
| 10 | To get the divorce you have to show that your wife has behaved in such a way that you ‘ can not reasonably be expected ’ to live with her . |
| 11 | One aspect of performance that one might expect of any machine that was to pass the test ( by behaving in such a way that the human interlocutor never even suspected a machine was present ) would be to have the sort of final authority over what state it was in that we normally concede to humans : when Jones , on the neurosurgeon 's table , insists that he is in pain , we tend to allow his authority even though the neurosurgeon says that , given the position of the brain probe at that moment , he should not be . |
| 12 | I ca n't think why she 's behaving in such a way . ’ |
| 13 | I think you might find a situation quite clearly where you would find a child behaving in such a way in the classroom that it was being disruptive to himself , disruptive to teachers , disruptive to , to his classmates , and therefore the , the first move must be in a direction of rearranging that behaviour so that there could develop a situation in which you might do something about the learning difficulty . |
| 14 | But we do perceive people 's bodies , and these behave in such a way as to show that they are accompanied by ‘ a distinct principle of thought and motion [ i.e. a mind ] like to ourselves ’ . |
| 15 | For example , when we say ‘ genes are trying to increase their numbers in future gene pools ’ , what we really mean is ‘ those genes that behave in such a way as to increase their numbers in future gene pools tend to be the genes whose effects we see in the world ’ . |
| 16 | What we mean by this is that when the pupils feel themselves put down , treated without ‘ seriousness ’ , they behave in such a way as to restore themselves to the status of mature beings . |
| 17 | Throughout this Part of the Act , a sharp differentiation is made between the person who intends to stir up racial hatred , and a person who behaves in such a way that racial hatred is likely to be stirred up by his behaviour . |