Example sentences of "act [prep] [det] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | If any employee is threatened with violence in order that the assailant(s) may obtain money they are carrying in the course of duty , they must not act in any way likely to place themselves or others in danger . |
| 2 | Although used to the scorn of pop stars , I was saddened that The Smiths should act in this way ) . |
| 3 | In normal development , the cells may act in this way so that the developing baby is not attacked by the mother 's defence system . |
| 4 | Whether in practice they act in this way has not been established convincingly . |
| 5 | If all teams act in this way , overall control will be maintained . |
| 6 | On the contrary , as we began this book by noticing , most people think that judges who act in this way are usurpers . |
| 7 | It is assumed that so-called reminder treatments act in some way to increase the likelihood that associations ( especially weak ones that will be most in need of such help ) will be effective in generating overt conditioned responding , then the pattern of results observed can be accommodated . |
| 8 | This section ( 1 ) disqualifies persons in certain trades from acting in any way as a member of a board , ( 2 ) disqualifies a person holding a disqualifying interest in a company from taking part in proceedings in which the company is an applicant or an objector , ( 3 ) disqualifies an employee of a licence holder under the Act , and any person engaged in a business dealing with alcoholic liquor , including the directors , officers and employees of companies engaged in such businesses from acting as a member of a licensing board , ( 4 ) disqualifies a member of a board , who is the owner or tenant of premises , from acting in the granting of a certificate in respect of those premises , ( 5 ) makes it an offence to contravene the section , ( 6 ) declares , subject to the proviso ( that the grant of a new licence is not liable to objection on the ground that one or more of the members of the board who granted it were not qualified to act ) , anything done in contravention of the section void , and ( 7 ) exempts members of a committee to determine the distribution of licences in a new town from disqualification for being members of a board by reason of their membership of the committee . |
| 9 | acting in any way with a view to stabilising the market price of any investment |
| 10 | A third State is affected by a treaty as a matter of fact when the treaty necessitates it acting in some way in response ( even if its preferred response is to do nothing ) . |
| 11 | You may well be better off without him instead of living in limbo , not knowing what he 's thinking or why he 's acting in this way . |
| 12 | Proteins acting in this way are called ‘ enzymes ’ ; their method of working is described on p. 61 . |
| 13 | Step 7 List the rewards ( or pay-offs ) that seem to encourage ( or discourage ) the behaviour by answering the question : ‘ What is the reward for acting in this way ? ’ |
| 14 | What do you gain from acting in this way ? |
| 15 | Although this might seem in one sense to be an unequivocal expression of deference , it becomes clear that it is purely conventional as soon as one imagines an Englishman acting in this way in the presence of his Queen . |
| 16 | this would defeat the legitimate expectations of those who had acted in some way in reliance on the old authority ; or |
| 17 | Neither the state nor its government is a person ; they are collections of people , and if none of these separate people has acted in any way inconsistently with his or her own principles , what sense can it make to say that the state they represent has done this ? |
| 18 | The Roman Research Trust declined to be interviewed , but a spokesman denied that it had acted in any way improperly . |
| 19 | There is little evidence that people really acted in this way . |
| 20 | He may have acted in this way because the dog was worrying sheep , or because he wanted to annoy the dog 's owner , or simply because he despises all alsatians . |
| 21 | There was already a strong conviction that the electromagnetic force acted in this way , carried by photons ( ’ packed of light ’ ) passing between electrically-charged particles . |
| 22 | I have tried , without , I hope , ignoring economic and social factors , not to let them obliterate what is after all the key to any historical situation — the men who thought or acted in this way or that . ’ |
| 23 | At least , in the circumstances of this play , things certainly would n't have been any better had Marco not acted in this way , and they may have been worse . |
| 24 | The sceptic might argue that the modern Roman Catholic Church in civilized societies no longer acts in this way but the convinced anti-Catholic can turn Rome 's own claims to be unchanging back on the Catholic Church and insist that the basic aim remains the same . |
| 25 | But if she takes her job too seriously , and acts in this way towards her own children at home , she will lose the intimacy of the relationship and seem a very impersonal and unkind mother . |
| 26 | This is constantly done in Mincing Lane [ a street in the City of London ] , and the person who acts in this way is , perhaps , a quasi-arbitrator or even an arbitrator , but he is an arbitrator of a particular sort , and it is not intended that there should be the same judicial proceeding on his part as there would be in the case of an arbitrator appointed under a formal submission . |
| 27 | If he acted in this way , it was not in order to conform to the customs of his time , for his attitude towards women was quite different from that of his milieu , and he deliberately and courageously broke with it . ’ |
| 28 | However , Brenda 's turn is so constructed that it starts in London English with a statement about what happened , and switches to Creole at " cause " ( which could be London English or Creole ) — precisely the point where she begins her explanation of why she acted in this way . |
| 29 | Failure to act in a particular way will not be an abuse of power unless the decision not to act in that way is beyond the limits of the discretion given to the power-holder . |
| 30 | If the landlord had chosen to act in that way , the liability of C.T . |