Example sentences of "way that [pers pn] [modal v] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ While I 'm here in Bristol I hope to talk to Andy Hay , the new Director of the Old Vic , to see if there 's some way that we can combine our forces . ’ |
2 | Yes , I think it 's just to follow on from that erm about trusting children to give us the sort of clues that we need to be able to respond to , very often they do that in ways that are not directly associated perhaps with the anxiety that 's around , so that they may be expressing their anxiety by just generally difficult behaviour or by wetting the bed at night , or maybe being quite disruptive in their play , or provoking other children , and adults who are able to see that sort of behaviour as useful for information for us , so that we can respond appropriately , not out of anger and a erm judgemental sort of response , but in a way that we can support their anxiety by by not getting over excited and + and erm responding in a very aggressive way to the very aggression that they 're expressing as a result of their anxiety . |
3 | Not in a hundred per cent of the cases , er and we do have undesirables at the John Radcliffe , er but there has n't been an incident such as this er I think that goes some way to prove that we do have a reasonably tight security service , and we , we work to any way that we can to keep it as secure as possible . |
4 | My Lord my initial reaction is it sounds logical as well and I I wondered if if what my learned friend has said i if and also what your Lordship 's initial view is , if the matter can be left in that way er i if after further reflection , it seems right then of course that 's the way that we will approach it . |
5 | Somewhat cheekily that committee came back to us and asked us very nicely would we provide about twenty five for the force , which we thought was a cheek but having said that we 've actually looked at it and there may well be a way that we could afford it . |
6 | In an economic upturn that may change , of course , but I think they all get jobs of some sort , and I would have hoped that a chemistry degree , a good training in chemistry , would in fact also train people to think in such a way that they could apply it to a lot of other areas . |
7 | I think it 's true to say that , certainly at my school , about the age of fourteen of fifteen the girls suddenly decide that they ca n't do maths and there 's no way that they could understand anything scientific , but that , I think , is a lot deeper than just encouragement at school anyway . |
8 | Whereby erm we do n't end up actually doing the things for them , but we show them the way that they can do them for themselves . |
9 | From a Weberian point of view the professions can be seen as occupational groups which have succeeded in controlling and manipulating the labour market in such a way that they can maximize their rewards . |
10 | And I 'm going to suggest , without going into great detail , that the media will actually help you promote your products , your organization , your services , your views , the information you need to share with the public , if in fact you can actually present it to them in such a way that they can use it . |
11 | Accordingly , Belinda left the veranda and went to her room , deciding on the way that she would wear her new black evening trousers and the pale apricot silk camisole top she had bought to go with them . |
12 | There was no way that she would give him the satisfaction of seeing her emerge later in the evening with puffy red eyes . |
13 | Confucius , the ancient Chinese philosopher , once said that you should treat others in the way that you would like them to treat you . |
14 | As I said at the beginning , Confucius , that grand old Chinese philosopher , had it right : treat others in the way that you would like them to treat you and everyone ends up much happier . |
15 | erm but er trying to get down as many points as we could , in a way that you can express yourself but to show that you were |
16 | And just to put together a way that you can change it from a feature into a benefit , using either of those ways . |
17 | But should your ferret escape , become hungry and — once its muzzle has rotted through — enjoy itself in someone else 's hen roost , there is no way that you can claim it back . |
18 | ‘ Is there any way that you can contact him ? |
19 | So we were really answerable to the Ipswich Borough Council , rather than to private enterprise which some people really wanted to sell us off as being a , you know , a weight round their necks because if we did n't make a lot of money after the war , the accounts would show that we were making a deficiency every year and erm , well there was no way that you could recoup it because our routes were n't really long enough to charge lots of fares erm , maybe tuppence was the town centre to the extreme termini |
20 | ‘ I 've been told by my superiors that I could use it in the same way that I would to prosecute anyone found mistreating a dog . |
21 | ‘ I knew , the moment I put the phone down from making that call to England , that not only did I love you with every breath of my being , but there was no way that I could take your being married to anyone but me . ’ |
22 | ‘ If you just ring them up you can not understand the problems they face so I thought this would be a good way that I could use myself as a focus on their work . ’ |
23 | After a day under the fog , there is no way that I can feed him without serving him . |
24 | They 've all got a vision about their listeners , their viewers , their readers and so forth , and when they pick something , a press release , or when they hear a story or something like that , their mind 's going click click click ‘ How can I use this in a way that I can turn it into a form which is usable for my people ? ’ in a sense . |
25 | There is , in fact , a way that I can prove something was wrong . ’ |
26 | I wanted as far as possible to forearm the boy at the beginning of adolescence — not ramming a weapon into his hand willy-nilly , but showing him the size and shape of it and where it lies in such a way that he would take it up without realizing he was doing so and find himself using it when he needed to . |
27 | Lord Palmerston sent for me and told me in a jaunty way that he would have nothing to do with this Gothic style , and that though he did not want to disturb my appointment he must insist on my making a design in the Italian style which he felt sure I could do as well as the other . |
28 | I do n't think there is any way that he can realise what I am going through . |
29 | [ P ] eople respond to incentives … if a person 's surroundings change in such a way that he will increase his satisfactions by altering his behaviour , he will do so . |
30 | There was no way that he could tell what proportion of his command had managed to get thus far , but undoubtedly all had not . |