Example sentences of "a way [that] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So far as Pitt was concerned , America came first , but he was as delighted as anyone when the English force protecting Hanover won a distinct success against France at Minden , which might have been decisive if Lord George Sackville had not disobeyed an order to charge in a way that exposed him to conspicuous , though not permanent , disgrace . |
| 2 | They should be displayed in a way that enables them to be appreciated by all the children in the class , whatever their visual capabilities . |
| 3 | Pipework and cable have to be laid and , if you deploy central heating pumps , they need to be housed in a way that enables them to be accessible , yet invisible . |
| 4 | This matter must not be singled out in a way that allows it to be used to override National Park objectives . |
| 5 | This matter must not be singled out in a way that allows it to be used to override National Park objectives . |
| 6 | Some LEAs ( notably ILEA ) have tried to present examination results in a way that relates them to the ability of the school 's intake . |
| 7 | The frescoes , for example , show many elements that are borrowed from Minoan Crete , but handled in a way that turns them into distinctively Theran compositions . |
| 8 | They should help small farmers , but not in a way that discourages them from getting larger or farming better : there must be no farming poverty trap . |
| 9 | She tried to break from his grasp , but as she spoke he released the arm still pinned at her side and placed his hand on the curve of her neck , fondling it in a way that reminded her of an actor she 'd once seen playing Henry VIII just before a beheading scene . |
| 10 | One line of epistemological inquiry leads Habermas to explore the developed forms of knowledge in a way that locates them in terms of his phenomenological grounding of knowing subjects . |
| 11 | There is also a tendency to state the obvious in a way that stops it from being obvious . |
| 12 | In the latter case there is the additional difficulty when children hear words pronounced in a way that disconnects them from the written form . |