Example sentences of "ways that [verb] [adj] [noun] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Dorothy Wordsworth found fulfilment in ways that elude precise analysis . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Sometimes there is , especially when one has to act on one 's beliefs in ways that affect other people . |
| 7 | We sought to strengthen Welsh Office planning guidance in ways that encourage good design , prevent abuse and minimise the environmental impact of necessary development . |
| 8 | 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 . |