Example sentences of "a [adj] way that [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looked up in a thoughtful way that made Carrie nervous but all he said was , ‘ Well , Carrie , I 'm much obliged to you ! |
| 2 | ‘ Two hundred slaves and we made no profit ? ’ the Doctor was saying in a jovial way that seemed out of place . |
| 3 | This section briefly reviews the essential features of Williamson 's theory , then presents two types of criticism : firstly , that the theory is a confusing mixture of static and dynamic elements , analysed in a loose way that does not make clear which things are endogenous and which are exogenous ; secondly , that the approach is too sanguine about the desirability of the organizational forms that are explained . |
| 4 | Then Damian 's blue eyes flicked over her body in a hot way that sent her heart racing and her legs trembling . |
| 5 | The authors conclude that their findings support the hypothesis that ‘ unions and management consider choices of bargaining structure in a systematic way that reflects the basic environment in which negotiations take place ’ ( p. 182 ) . |
| 6 | Ferguson , for his part , can now look any supporter of his club in the eye and say that Gough having to commit the foul that debarred him from a Cup-tie verified the youngster 's ability to put an awkward pre-match situation out of his mind and play in a determined way that suggested his temperament was on the mend . |
| 7 | The trigger points are innumerable but the nurse should have the maturity to deal with the resultant feelings in a constructive way that avoids reflecting any annoyance on to the patient . |
| 8 | Launching a sugar plantation took a great deal of capital and the planters were always short of money ; many of them had bought estates at the high land prices of the boom , and most of them felt they owed it to themselves to live in a gentlemanly way that ignored debts . |
| 9 | The implication ( 33 ) 5 , that the day of speaking is other than Wednesday or Thursday , is also due to deixis ( explained in Chapter z ) , for the word Thursday in utterance ( iii ) is used in a deictic way that invokes pragmatic parameters ( there are other usages that do not , e.g. Pay day is Thursday ) . |