Example sentences of "way that " in BNC.

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1 Even school-teaching Graham , who is meant to be amusingly boring , is good with words , in one of the ways that teachers sometimes are .
2 The object , therefore , is to force your opponent to fight in unfamiliar or less preferred ways that he finds difficult .
3 Despite the protective embrace of professionalism and the general mutuality of respect and acceptance that pertains between disciplines , the academic teacher of literature is in a peculiar position in relation to his colleagues elsewhere , in ways that have been remarked on by John Bayley and Raymond Williams , and no doubt by others ; in certain respects English does remain an essentially different subject .
4 It is time , it is thought , for English to organize itself in ways that make it more like a proper academic discipline , with clear procedures and goals .
5 Leavis , who countered How To Read with a booklet , How to Teach Reading , and Winters , who declared in 1937 , ‘ Mr Pound resembles a village loafer who sees much and understands little ’ , told the same story as Tate : Pound was a naïf , an imagination and sensory apparatus that consistently performed better than it knew , in ways that the maker 's own discursive intelligence failed to comprehend or measure up to ; in Winters 's memorable and mordant judgement of 1943 , ‘ a sensibility without a mind , or with as little mind as is well possible ’ .
6 Delivering the Drew lecture on ‘ Government and the Arts ’ at the Central London Polytechnic , Mr Fisher pointed out that when Mr Luce announced three-year funding for the arts in November 1987 , he had said the figure could not be reviewed ‘ unless the situation changes substantially in ways that can not be foreseen today ’ .
7 The essence of music 's higher flights is transcendental in the highest degree imaginable , in ways that are manifestly intelligible and effectual , and quite insusceptible to verbal accounting .
8 For most people , unaware of the implications of an obscure West Country helicopter firm , it was in other ways that the government 's problems showed themselves .
9 It is in these ways that The Roaring Girl begins to disclose how , because of the complex connections between sexuality , gender , and class , and specifically between sexual and economic exploitation , economic and political anxieties can be displaced into the domain of the sexual and conversely , the sexual comes to possess enormous signifying power ( though very different from that attributed to sexuality by the radical humanist ) .
10 ‘ A woman would be able to help you in ways that I ca n't , ’ he said .
11 In modern Britain sport has been one of the ways that men have kept themselves apart , defined their own territory , and indulged their enthusiasms .
12 The method is designed to accentuate ways that advance your body clock and play down ways that cause it to delay .
13 The method is designed to accentuate ways that advance your body clock and play down ways that cause it to delay .
14 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 .
15 However , thanks partly to the arrival of the sound film , this small measure was to change the nature of the British film industry in ways that could hardly have been foreseen by the legislators , and enable it to ‘ project England ’ more effectively than it had ever done before .
16 And , beyond that , we ought to see that some of the latest European music is only ‘ fascistic ’ in ways that are almost the opposite of male triumpalism .
17 It had opened the door to closer collaboration in the nuclear field , bringing substantial savings in research and development costs , and enabling Britain to retain and constantly modernize her independent nuclear deterrent in ways that otherwise would have been beyond her economic means .
18 The bondholding may help the firm get its foot in the door to win the business ; and once it is inside , the firm will be tempted to propose a restructuring of the company 's debt in ways that will benefit its own holdings .
19 My predecessor Patrick Jenkin had sensibly asked for an examination of the different ways that European countries financed their health care .
20 In some cases this involves experimental work to test particular theories of how certain processes were carried out and the ways that artefacts were constructed .
21 The changes have been more fundamental and some of them may have affected us in ways that we do not immediately recognise .
22 Nothing of what I am going to attempt to say should in any way be read as denying the value of psychoanalysis nor as implying that the Church has not been , and continues to be , deeply misogynistic in ways that are damaging both to women and to the Church itself .
23 Both illusions were shattered in ways that underlined how fragile and ramshackle the policies were , and they were shattered within a month of each other .
24 He also worked with the Cardinal Archbishop of New York , John O'Connor , in ways that are still not known ; his notebooks are full of calls to and from the archbishop 's office .
25 The American people would like the chance to return that hospitality in the many ways that are possible in our vast country .
26 What we appear to have here is a system where the structure of intervention , as displayed in the file data in other areas , bears only an indirect relationship to what actually happened in Team D. ( The specialist worker in Team C may have been operating in ways that in some respects are not wholly dissimilar , but the approach of the specialist team would seem radically different ) .
27 In particular the teaching force will not be regenerated or remotivated in the ways that are necessary ( and possible ) , and which alone will lead to the real and sustained improvements in the quality of the service delivered to pupils .
28 The structure of the animal 's behaviour will be adapted to all these features in ways that in past generations have been most successful in transmitting the gene complexes of individuals into the future .
29 It is also possible that cultural adaptations during this phase may have selected genetic bases for behaviour in ways that ensured the development of social strategies designed to ensure that individuals fitted well into the existing social structure .
30 The ‘ biogrammar ’ of evolutionary stable strategies and the acquired ‘ sociogrammar ’ of social rules and roles are not so distinctly separated ; they interlace functionally and epigenetically in ways that are not yet understood .
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