Example sentences of "an approach [conj] [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The imperialist attitude was accommodated in his books all the more easily because he put the emphasis on service and sacrifice rather than on nationalist domination or material gain : an approach that may seem hypocritical to present-day readers was sincere enough in a man who set out to be a philanthropist and reformer and became a best-seller . |
| 2 | They have sought to use fraud as an insight into the sociology and methodology of science , an approach that might connect with the more philosophical investigations of Robert Merton , Michael Polanyi , John Ziman and Thomas Kuhn . |
| 3 | The language used does , in our opinion , justify an approach that would hold the mortgagee prima facie entitled to recover or retain the full amount of its actual costs , charges and expenses ; but the language leaves open , in our opinion , the right of the mortgagor to have excluded any costs , charges and expenses that were incurred in bad faith or were unreasonably incurred or were unreasonable in amount . |
| 4 | The Financial Accounting Standards Board is to press ahead with an approach that would expand the use of fair value accounting for investments in debt and equity securities . |
| 5 | With more efficient use of the existing electronic information resources in our Town Halls this is an approach that could bear much fruit . |
| 6 | The construction task will not end with this book , which does little more than lay the foundation for an approach that will celebrate geography as focusing on the ‘ question of place ’ within contemporary society . |
| 7 | We need an approach that can come to grips with both the ecological and economic levels . |