Example sentences of "a way [that] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He smiled in a way that had charmed the matrons of Europe , and led Hyacinth over to the cameras . |
| 2 | If you are sincerely dieting in a way that has led you to lose weight in the past , just stick with the same regime for a further week or two . |
| 3 | However , the fires of the Rising and exposure to the weather in the years immediately after contributed to the decay of the stonework of the facade in a way that has made it hazardous in recent years . |
| 4 | Economic decline is tangled up with political turmoil in a way that has made for a crisis of the constitution . |
| 5 | 2 Most socialists have become increasingly critical of the monopolistic and authoritarian role of Communist parties in one-party systems in a way that has made them cast doubt on the desirability of insurrection . |
| 6 | Britain is seen as having surrendered power to the Common Market in a way that has limited our freedom of manoeuvre and turned us into a colony of an embryonic West European federal state . |
| 7 | Government response to the crisis has hit the poor in a way that has become all too familiar in the Third World . |
| 8 | This is not to say that the Government has not also been pursuing other policies , such as the wider spread of home ownership , that have been beneficial to many working-class people , but the approach has been implemented in a way that has isolated the underclass still further . |
| 9 | In consequence , there has been the pretence that a single perspective grounded in the nineteenth century can capture the essentials of things today , and so constitutional theory has itself been frozen in a way that has confined the parameters of constitutional debate . |
| 10 | The men sport black coats and long beards and dedicate their lives to prayer in a way that has changed little in 250 years . |
| 11 | The famous EGG formula — ‘ ethnicity , gender and geography ’ — has slowed the process of appointments in a way that has hurt the administration . |
| 12 | We have privatised British Gas and the electricity industry in a way that has opened these markets to competition . |
| 13 | In the past , presidential wives have made an impression but usually in a way that has drawn fierce criticism , mainly because they pretended they were n't an influence on their husbands . |