Example sentences of "a way that [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We may be meant to think that time is simultaneous , in a way that may owe something to the simultaneity propounded , ‘ perhaps ’ , in Eliot 's Four Quartets , where ‘ History is now and England ’ ; or that it is cyclical , a turning wheel , with human depravity paling into insignificance as the wheel turns into modern times . |
| 2 | It can hold couples together in a way that may seem to the outsider against all reason . |
| 3 | Will he therefore support a cross-party approach to Northern Ireland affairs during the election and unequivocally reject any partisan trading with the Anglo-Irish Agreement in a way that would reverse the peace process after the next election ? |
| 4 | The barrister behaved impeccably , and indicated repeatedly that he was not prepared to concede that he had ‘ offended against [ section 19A of the Act of 1985 ] in a way that would entitle your Honour to make an order . ’ |
| 5 | The urge to cash in on contemporary themes remained , however , and another small group of films attempted to dramatize these issues in a way that would avoid the pitfalls of labour films . |
| 6 | It does not call for explicit statements of the objectives of expenditure in a way that would enable a Minister 's plans to be tested against general government strategy : nor can it regularly embody detailed analysis of existing programmes and of major policy options on them . |
| 7 | We wanted to make it easier for people to get the money to which they were entitled , and I set my hand to introducing the reforms in a way that would enable people to do so . |
| 8 | Well it 's just that for that , I mean that 's all , it 's all relative for those conditions there are , there is too much labour on the land , you erm , if you could increase agricultural productivity in a way that would displace labour and that 's very difficult to do , well you can , you can do it er most , most capital is labour displacing but not all , not all capital , erm so you could , whereas I see , I see what you are saying is that , why well the you could g you could , you could do it right even though that there are a lot of people on the land er you could still make them wholly productive by giving them more capital that was n't labour that was n't labour displacing , like you give them better seeds for example , like that would increase the productivity of the land , there would n't be so much you know population pressure on the land er because everybody would have enough to eat and we could er actually sell something , right . |
| 9 | Now members of LA 's rock ‘ aristocracy ’ , they may be viewed in some quarters as an anachronism but no-one could deny that they can still draw the big crowds in a way that would make many a ‘ hip ’ band envious . |
| 10 | But other marsupials live in a way that would make such an exposed method of transport positively lethal . |
| 11 | ‘ The expectations may be based upon some statement or undertaking by , or on behalf of , the public authority which has the duty of making the decision , if the authority has , through its officers , acted in a way that would make it unfair or inconsistent with good administration for him to be denied such an inquiry . |
| 12 | Ecology was a parallel move designed not to transcend field studies , but to transform them in a way that would make them genuinely scientific . |
| 13 | If it were left to itself the House of Commons could produce independent members in a way that would make the King 's Government impossible since it could refuse to grant the money needed to carry out his will . |
| 14 | Proportional representation in Parliament might translate into disproportionate power in government in a way that would make the established first-past-the-post inequalities look rather more fair than is often seen to be the case . |
| 15 | Many aspects of the interaction between employers and employees are not covered by formal contracts because important elements in that interaction are not readily measurable in a way that would make a formal contract enforceable in court . |
| 16 | At a press conference Mr Fyodorov stressed that any new aid should be delivered in a way that would leave a political impression on the Russian people . |
| 17 | The right-wing intellectuals sought to influence postwar political culture in a way that would destigmatise their fascist ideas . |
| 18 | They should be able to grasp a total situation from the fragments presented to them and respond linguistically in a way that would benefit their business . |
| 19 | to cause or knowingly to permit any matter to enter a stream , so as to tend ( either directly or in combination with other matter which is caused or permitted to enter the stream ) to impede the flow of the stream in a way that would lead to a substantial aggravation of pollution due to other causes ; |
| 20 | The cell bodies of the sympathetic nerves to the upper gastrointestinal tract which are located within the irradiated volume thus represent a credible target since they might reasonably be expected to influence the duodenum in such a way that would lead to a susceptibility to ulcer by , for example , reducing mucosal blood flow or bicarbonate secretion , both of which functions are under sympathetic control . |
| 21 | As soon as Ruth acknowledged her poverty and her willingness to work God stepped in and guided her life in a way that would bring great blessing . |
| 22 | Frequently husbands and wives will attempt to arouse each other in a way that would suit them personally and this causes problems . |
| 23 | Law firms started to compete more fiercely with each other — through ‘ beauty parades ’ and even on price — in a way that would have appeared unseemly a decade earlier . |
| 24 | One believed himself to be Mario Lanza , and , at the mention of a ‘ key ’ word , would assault a well-known aria in a way that would have peeled the paint off any bathroom wall . |
| 25 | We also know that people who have lost a limb , or had a stroke or heart disease can get back their mobility and their health in a way that would have seemed quite impossible only twenty years ago . |
| 26 | This game shamelessly rips it off in a way that would have most copyright lawyers drooling . |
| 27 | This movement , as Rufus had no doubt intended , sent Mary toppling forward into Adam 's arms , her breasts lightly slapping into his chest in a way that would have been blissful if it had been allowed to continue but Mary , drunk as she was , had sprung aside , actually sprung to her feet , and rather late in the day hugged her arms across her chest . |
| 28 | Even as he charmed Cagney burnt up a nervous restlessness in a way that would have been very familiar to many of his fans . |
| 29 | His photographs from this time succeeded in capturing the real China in a way that would have been impossible to a foreigner . |
| 30 | The Republic also pointed the way to the future in its attempts to regulate English trade in a way that would help English shipping though its efforts were not immediately successful ; the monarchy took the same legislative approach , but was able to make its laws effective and on this basis set up a system of control of trade in the empire that survived until the middle of the nineteenth century . |