Example sentences of "way that was " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was dirty and shoddy in a way that was very symbolic of New York : square blocks , square buildings , several storeys higher than English ones , packed full of people , no yards , no gardens , not even mingy ones with soot covered plants . |
| 2 | Every time the car went round a corner you had to turn the whole radio round to face a different way That was the only way you could get half-decent reception . |
| 3 | He was therefore able to expand his studies in the way that was ultimately to produce Capital , his main theoretical work . |
| 4 | The first was tackled in a way that was to set the pattern — a devastating technique that the Prince has used time and again : bringing people together who would not normally meet . |
| 5 | At a nod from his father , the undertaker beckoned towards a group of men who came forward with subdued eyes , eager to express their sympathy in the one manly way that was open to them . |
| 6 | The vast majority from the most senior consultant to the most junior nurse worked long hours and responded to daily emergencies in a way that was an object lesson to us all . |
| 7 | As Jinny milked on , her thoughts floated vaguely , in the way that was one of the pleasures of the job . |
| 8 | One of the musicians who played in the band with Buddie had once ruffled Frankie 's thick black hair and called him ‘ Smallfry ’ in a way that was not meant to be unkind . |
| 9 | So one may take it that everyone receives at least a smattering ; and more flexible A-level and university courses make it possible for people to combine more advanced science with arts subjects in a way that was virtually impossible in my day . |
| 10 | That development entailed a recognition that the concentration upon language by the school of logical positivism , within which Ayer 's dismissal of religious belief emerged , might not so much show up the meaninglessness of theology as elicit its own particular logic Wittgenstein 's thought appears to show a progression from concentrating upon language in order to exclude certain forms of thought — as in Ayer 's exclusion of metaphysics — towards concentrating upon language in order to make sense of those different forms in a way that was sensitive to their particular nature . |
| 11 | He put down the pot , stared at the floor for a few seconds and then looked up glowering , pointed his finger at me in a way that was frightening because it was so sudden . |
| 12 | In 1944 , as we have seen , it was presumed that the best minds must be educated in the way that was traditional , by means of the grammar school curriculum , based originally on the classics and mathematics , gradually expanded , before the war , to include modern languages and experimental sciences . |
| 13 | monitor the agreement to ensure that it is implemented in the way that was intended . |
| 14 | It was recognised that what would be most welcomed by policymakers and others was a service that not only helped to keep people out of institutions if that was their wish , but did so in a way that was both acceptable to recipients and less expensive than alternative institutional care . |
| 15 | So , at least according to off-line judgements , the message conveyed by this passage was not difficult to extract , but it was expressed in a way that was not fully acceptable to focused critical judgement |
| 16 | At last , there was a national politician who listened to lesbians and gays and spoke out for us in a way that was without fear , shame or embarrassment . |
| 17 | But such was the strength of their local authority that most of the larger Catholic households were able to maintain their liturgical tradition , although in a way that was increasingly isolated from the mainstream of local life . |
| 18 | However , the question was whether it did so in a way that was unfairly prejudicial to Mr Nicholas . |
| 19 | Attlee 's arguments pointed clearly to the foreign policy eventually pursued by the post-war Labour Government — attempting to manipulate the emerging US superpower in a way that was compatible both with the maintenance of Britain 's overseas Empire and with her traditionally limited commitment to entanglement in European affairs . |
| 20 | The citizens of Rotherham were , at last , being confronted with the topic in their own town , in a way that was difficult for them to ignore . |
| 21 | ‘ Oh , by the way that was a good show you put on tonight , Lemon . |
| 22 | As she looked at Millie rocking herself slightly like a little old woman getting a child to sleep , she though , If I were to tell her her mother has died , she would likely think it was the same way as her father had , whichever way that was , which was n't real dead . |
| 23 | Abrams and McCulloch ( 1976 ) found that the role of ‘ sympathetic outsider ’ enabled them to study communes in a way that was involved , detached , and not unduly threatening . |
| 24 | In Britain the courts have recently decided that a leather firm should pay the Cambridge Water Company almost £1m in damages for contaminating one of its boreholes with chlorinated solvents , even though the solvents were disposed of 17 years ago in a way that was legal at the time . |
| 25 | By the 1690s the northern colonies were spreading north and west in a way that was quite likely to lead to an eventual conflict with New France , though the distance between the English and the French colonies was still too great for a full-scale conflict to be possible . |
| 26 | On an application for judicial review , the High Court may decide that the Secretary of State has exceeded the powers conferred on him by Parliament , or acted in a way that was irrational or procedurally unfair . |
| 27 | ‘ Most people are wrong most of the time , ’ he said , with such firmness that she slid him another look , surprised ; he was strong behind his gentleness and hesitancy , she thought — strong in a way that was n't common . |
| 28 | Some feminists ( e.g. Sharpe 1976 ; Delamont 1980 ) have attempted to redress this imbalance , by using all-female , rather than mixed samples , treating the quality of education received by girls as a serious issue , in a way that was rare before the late 1970s . |
| 29 | In a way that was the problem . |
| 30 | The modified theory can not be tested in any way that was not also a test of the original theory . |