Example sentences of "way that [vb mod] " 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 | From this point of view there is room for the state to assume an interventionist role for the many in a way that may well eat into the freedoms of the few who exercise private , economic power — power that many constitutional authorities are actually concerned to protect and defend through their stress on the importance of liberty , and constitutional limitations on taxation , state intervention , parliamentary sovereignty , and the play of democratic politics itself . |
| 4 | However , if a police officer is suddenly told by control that the member of the public with whom he is dealing may be suffering from a mental disorder , he may start to deal with that individual differently , and in a way that may not be particularly helpful . |
| 5 | Said John Thompson , IBM vice-president and Application Business Systems general manager , ‘ We will implement RISC [ on the AS/400 ] , but not until it catches up with the AS/400 architecture , which we think is more advanced … and until we can do it in a way that wo n't disrupt the customer 's applications . ’ |
| 6 | Edberg moves gracefully and speedily over the grass in a way that would surely be the envy of a Torville and Dean . |
| 7 | ‘ The fire had the effect of attracting ministerial attention to Hampton Court in a way that would not otherwise have happened , ’ said Genie Turton , under-secretary at the Department of the Environment . |
| 8 | Western diplomats have concluded that the Soviet Union 's proposal to stage a ‘ Helsinki II ’ summit next year is primarily aimed at eliminating any ambiguities about the ‘ inner-German ’ frontier , and enshrining the existence of the two German states in the Helsinki Declaration in a way that would virtually rule out reunification . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It can bring together polar opposites in a way that would never happen in London or LA , where musicians hang out with their own kind . |
| 12 | There is a set of genes involved in patterning the embryo , the homeobox genes ( Chapter 7 ) , which are expressed in the developing limb buds in just the Way that would suggest that they may encode positional information . |
| 13 | 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 ; |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Frederic W. Farrar 's Eric , or , little by little of 1858 is the often-quoted example , in which the boys show open affection for each other in a way that would be at least ridiculed in our own harsh world of emotional constraint : |
| 18 | Frequently husbands and wives will attempt to arouse each other in a way that would suit them personally and this causes problems . |
| 19 | If you give me leave , I will do it in a way that would not dishonour your forebears . ’ |
| 20 | This game shamelessly rips it off in a way that would have most copyright lawyers drooling . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The right-wing intellectuals sought to influence postwar political culture in a way that would destigmatise their fascist ideas . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Following the 1908 Act discussion centred on whether thrift could be encouraged in any way that would not be inherently counter-productive . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The contributors all came from the Anglo-Catholic wing of the Church of England , but their shared aim was to assist the re-expression of the central Christian doctrines in a way that would be appropriate to their own time , and that would take account of the historical character both of the Bible and of subsequent theology . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 30 | ‘ 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 . |