Example sentences of "way that [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.

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31 ‘ To the Daidalaion ’ ( Knossos tablet Fp 1 ) would have allowed the administrators at Knossos to use the offering in any way that would benefit the Labyrinth .
32 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 .
33 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 .
34 Yet while he did n't much care about the outcome of Plainsong , except in a generally patriotic sense , he cared very much that it should n't fail in any way that would leave a vindictive Foreign Office with a load of blame to distribute .
35 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 .
36 The first answer repeats the original response in a more general way that would apply to other speeds too .
37 Frequently husbands and wives will attempt to arouse each other in a way that would suit them personally and this causes problems .
38 Restoring the hydrogeological balance includes the reopening of sections of the Lagoon enclosed for fish farming ( ‘ valli di pesca ’ ) , if possible in a controlled way that would take some account of the commercial interests involved .
39 Deep gashes of black under the eyes , skin the colour of ashes , a slight wobbliness to his movements , His speech is fastidious , precise in a way that would seem pompous if he were at all ebullient ; but with his small , gave voice — sometimes withering , always withered — the impression is of a wary distrust of words and the ways they can be misconstrued .
40 Well if we 're continually in contact with people as growing children who do n't allow us to express our feelings , or who behave in a way that would seem to deny that those feelings of hate and rage and love in their extremes exist at all , then obviously one does n't develop a sense of trust in what one perceives from oneself , and that erm on erm an accumulative basis is going to result in a person who does n't feel terribly confident about the feelings and their awareness that they have .
41 She flounced into the bathroom , and then tried to think how to flounce out again in any way that would get her past his indispensable face and into the bloody lift .
42 You know that I do not necessarily go along with your concept of visual character in the way that you use it , but would the visual character be altered in a way that would cause a coincidence of greenbelt function were that important hedge not in existence on the north side of D thirty nine ?
43 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 .
44 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 .
45 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 .
46 This game shamelessly rips it off in a way that would have most copyright lawyers drooling .
47 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 .
48 Even as he charmed Cagney burnt up a nervous restlessness in a way that would have been very familiar to many of his fans .
49 I smiled back in a half-witted way that would have terrified a woman of less spirit .
50 His photographs from this time succeeded in capturing the real China in a way that would have been impossible to a foreigner .
51 The results did not seem to influence subsequent clinical management of these patients in any way that would have differed appreciably from management without this information .
52 To wean himself away from concrete , physical sensation , the Jewish adept should learn to contemplate language in a way that would divorce it from meaning and physical reality .
53 However , the study was not designed in a way that would allow the conclusion that physicians were as accurate as psychiatrists in their diagnoses and recommendations .
54 It was Owen who took up the challenge of modernizing the argument from design in a way that would allow it to incorporate the innovative aspects of transcendental anatomy .
55 If this were not the case , then the two components would necessarily remain coupled in a way that would allow little difference from convection due to just one of them .
56 Lissa pressed her fingertips to the window-pane , as though in some way that would keep him near to her , but the ambulance moved off along the road and the fragile connection was severed .
57 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 .
58 The act makes it unlawful for an employer to ‘ limit , segregate or classify an employee in any way that would deprive that employee of job opportunities or adversely affect employment status because of their age . ’
59 And it is desirable to act in a way that shall ensure long , unbelievable biographies .
60 Such a program could be designed not only with the aim of increasing visual acuity but could be related to the production of verbal constructs in a way that might enhance the ability to communicate about what was seen and felt .
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