Example sentences of "behave [prep] [det] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes , if they knew he behaved in that way , people would be unwilling to talk about him at all — for fear they would embarrass themselves by saying something sympathetic about a man they knew could just as easily assassinate their characters . |
| 2 | She endured his company , that was all ; he told himself that she behaved in all ways like a young lady : it would not have been proper for her to show more feeling . |
| 3 | You did great damage to that trust in the police when you behaved in this way . ’ |
| 4 | A monarch who behaved in this way could rely on the support of many of the leading intellectuals of the age , however despotic his power . |
| 5 | Mature people do not behave in that way . |
| 6 | If a statement is unfalsifiable , then the world can have any properties whatsoever , can behave in any way whatsoever , without conflicting with the statement . |
| 7 | Yet many otherwise mature adults will often behave in this way , mainly because of failure on a long-term basis to deal with anger properly . |
| 8 | By the same token it is usually middle-class men who ultimately are in the position to make substantial gifts , although when women can behave in this way , they do . |
| 9 | If a proper level of justice is provided in prisons , then it is less likely that prisoners will behave in this way . |
| 10 | Yet it is difficult to see why employers in all countries would behave in this way if it was not to their advantage . |
| 11 | Because some of the systems that exhibit chaotic behaviour are so simple , it seems strange that the realization that they can behave in this way is only recent . |
| 12 | ( Human populations can behave in this way . ) |
| 13 | Such a girl is being asked to behave in many ways like an adult ( mother ) in that she is being asked to carry out the nurturing and supervisory procedures which properly belong to adulthood and , traditionally , to motherhood in particular . |
| 14 | There are examples in some countries of such candidates being elected and of pressure-group members of parliament being sufficiently numerous and permanent to share in office and to be regarded as a permanent parliamentary group — in other words , to behave in many ways like a party . |
| 15 | Nigel agreed that he might be tempted to behave in that way again . |
| 16 | This fact in itself may be a symptom of the illness , particularly if it is not usual for them to behave in that way . |
| 17 | He was terrible , because he had started it all , he had determined to behave in that way . |
| 18 | It is contemptible for a Government to behave in that way about an important and constituent part of the United Kingdom . |
| 19 | And the minority who chose to behave in this way were mostly aware that they had no one to blame but themselves — which made it all the more painful . |
| 20 | Many of these management activities would occur automatically in best-practice private companies , spurred on by managers adopting broad views of their briefs , although it is not always clear what motivates the manager to behave in this way — perhaps the operation of the managerial labour market ? |
| 21 | We show that provided the B's believe that A follows a linear strategy , then , it is best for A to behave in this way even if it can choose any strategy . |
| 22 | sort this out sensibly , the police overreact , they arrest him at midnight in the clothes he stands up in , they take him down to the police station , he 's held in the police station for about thirty six hours or so , something like that , er instead of being brought before the court straight away and released on bail straight away , they , they keep him in custody where he 's never been before , er and Madam he 's then released on bail but court imposes silly conditions on him , conditions that he should n't go back to his home address , he ca n't go and see his girlfriend , he ca n't go and see his children , er , and Madam it seems to be an abuse of the process really of the court to behave in this way . |
| 23 | The behaviourist theory of knowledge says that for someone , S , to know or believe that some proposition p is true is for S to be disposed to behave in some way which is supposed to be appropriate to the world 's being as p says . |
| 24 | I wondered if our own troops in distant countries behaved in this way . |
| 25 | In the course of writing this , we have realised that it would be helpful to ask Mbuna keepers ( past and present ) to let us have details of any females they have owned , that may have behaved in this way . |
| 26 | The reason for chlamydia 's comparatively late arrival on the microbiological scene is that , although behaving in many ways like a virus , it is in fact a highly specialized and adapted bacterium . |
| 27 | Jim Knox , an Oldham director , says that the club have fulfilled their financial obligations to Round and do not know why he is behaving in this way . |
| 28 | Do not make any judgments from bream behaving in this way , for they can mislead you as to where the beat is . |
| 29 | By behaving in this way , the nurse shows respect for the person 's individuality , a point reinforced in our model for nursing . |
| 30 | They are clearly approaching a shrine or altar of some kind , or they would not be behaving in this way ; in addition , our new view of the whole of the Knossos Labyrinth as a temple allows us to argue that even a staircase , as part of a temple-complex , might well be in a general sense dedicated to a presiding deity . |