Example sentences of "[prep] the way that [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we have no understanding of cultural politics , of the way that civil society offers openings and opportunities for progressive change , then frankly , we might as well give up and just enjoy the ‘ consumer spectacle ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ The results of the experiment should give us a better understanding of the way that normal growth takes place in plants and will also help to provide information for the design of plant-based life-support systems , ’ Dr Briarty explained . |
| 3 | I take your point Anne , but I would prefer to help the MP understand that the nature of the way that this department is run is that officers do take responsibility for their specialist areas of work , the senior management has always supported that , and I do n't feel minded to change it because the MP finds it difficult . |
| 4 | This view is premissed on the essential goodness of human nature , seeing all failures to live up to this goodness as attributable to defects in the way that international society is arranged . |
| 5 | We had one particularly bad sexual harassment case which came out of West Belfast a couple of years ago , which I think was a landmark in the recognition by the courts that women can not be treated with indignity and in the way that that girl was treated . |
| 6 | The language that most of the home computers are used with is BASIC , and although there are a few words in that language which look like English words , like ‘ If ’ and ‘ Let ’ and ‘ Go to ’ and perhaps some others depending on the dialect of BASIC that you have , these words do not work in the way that ordinary English speakers are used to . |
| 7 | Instantly sparks crackled in Twoflower 's hair and there was a sudden gust of hot dry wind that did n't disturb the dust in the way that ordinary wind should but , instead , whipped it up momentarily into unpleasantly half-living shapes before it settled again . |
| 8 | Even more worrying is the fact that latent inhibition does not suffer from overshadowing and blocking in the way that normal conditioning does . |
| 9 | Mr Rifkind 's inclination is to split it up and offer it for tender , perhaps line by line , in the way that provincial bus services have been deregulated . |
| 10 | Thus political programmes that envisage an alternative form of society , or even major institutional changes in the way that existing society is constituted , are effectively disenfranchised by the current model of representative democracy . |
| 11 | The significance of the data lies in the way that odd nitrogen is partitioned in autumn in the long-lived reservoir of HNO 3 , rather than the temporary reservoir of N 2 O 5 . |
| 12 | this is a very good example of er putting interesting detail in the foreground in the way that tall bit of wood there is really making quite a a , an interesting subject in itself in the foreground . |
| 13 | It requires changes in the way that parental involvement in their child 's education is fostered by the school as well as changes in what the school has to offer the child . |
| 14 | However , control theory does not take our diverse , potentially deviant motives as being expressive of ‘ free will ’ in the way that classical criminology does . |
| 15 | Hence , this August does not necessarily mean the month that we are now in , in the way that this week ordinarily means the week that we are now in . |
| 16 | At the idea transfer level , machines have not yet demonstrated unequivocally the ability to process concepts in the way that human consciousness processes thought . |
| 17 | Excessively milky in the way that artificial banana or strawberry can be excessive in flavour . |
| 18 | They can feel cold at first but they do warm up quickly and in warmer conditions the modern micro-fibre fabrics commonly used do n't feel sticky in the way that older nylon linings did . |
| 19 | It is the greatest weakness of this wider view of accounting that there is no system for producing the data , which is verifiable in the way that double-entry bookkeeping is . |
| 20 | It became particularly apparent that ‘ crimes ’ were not absolutes that could be taken for granted as being ‘ obviously wrong ’ in the way that positivist criminology seemed to do . |
| 21 | Notions such as quantum leap , entropy , feedback and software spread far beyond their original habitats ; indeed , whole languages and ways of seeing the world spread out and colonize other fields , in the way that experimental method , rational planning models , and computer terminology have done . |
| 22 | The set-piece debates are usually more interesting , albeit that one gets the impression speakers are carefully sifted in the way that Tory Party conferences ensure that the boat is not rocked too violently . |
| 23 | It is often less appropriate to involve counsellees to the same extent , and the counsellor may have to take more direct action in their interests , much in the way that any friend would do in similar situations . |
| 24 | Educational policy frequently becomes confused with social policy , as can be seen , for example , in the way that educational integration can come to be viewed as a sometimes misguided way of caring rather than a means of achieving access to society through education . |
| 25 | If young people are not deficient in the ways that current rhetoric suggests , then what is the explanation for the high levels of youth unemployment ? |
| 26 | If anchoring , in its essentials , refers to the way that new information is categorized and rooted into cultural beliefs , then theorists must also take note of the way that information can be particularized and uprooted . |
| 27 | It is this consideration which leads directly to the way that social representation theorists conceive of the process of anchoring , and the need to widen this conception , so that everyday thinking can be understood in terms of opposing psychological processes . |
| 28 | Er , before I call Mr can I compliment the council on the way that this debate has gone . |
| 29 | Where it breaks down and you get a governing body that is split down the middle , where you get staff who tend to who might tend to go in an opposite way to the head teacher , where you get parents who are asked to make difficult decisions as with an opt out ballot , then I think that you have to look very hard at the way that that school is managed and the way that it 's going in the future , because those are the sort of issues that unless you get those right the future for the school can not be as bright as it is for one where they are working as a team . |
| 30 | THE PUBLIC AS as well as the practising artist , whether amateur or professional , seems always intrigued by the ways that another artist has arrived at being professionally and financially independent . |