Example sentences of "[verb] in a [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her heart beat in a way she had not been conscious of it beating for many a month and she felt near to tears . |
| 2 | Needs have to be met to enable active citizenship as without education , welfare , health care , self-respect , and law we can not act in a way we would like to . |
| 3 | Thus the government may spend money on compulsory education or compulsory vaccination because is recognizes that , left to their own decisions , individuals will act in a way they will subsequently regret . |
| 4 | It was clear , however , that an unwise or ill-advised Monarch might conceivably act in a manner which could be construed as partial , in that it appeared to reflect a royal preference for one particular group within the party . |
| 5 | It also believes that planning can ensure that new buildings are designed in a way which it likes , and has an ability to prevent anything , however small , happening near its own house which reduces its value or interferes with the way in which it has been in the habit of using it . |
| 6 | They 've designed in a bearing which which which is stupidly expensive . |
| 7 | The Ringdufferin golf course has been designed in a manner which does not harm the heritage and natural beauty of the area . |
| 8 | White , in this issue , notes that while much has been achieved by deregulation in the US since the 1970s , regulation with anticompetitive effects remains common in the services sector , and much health-safety-environmental regulation is designed in a manner which gives an advantage to incumbent firms . |
| 9 | It performs a special dance , walking in a circle which it then bisects while vigorously waggling its abdomen . |
| 10 | Because their demands were nil , the Masai could be approached in a way which came close to the Colonial Service 's proclaimed ideal of disinterested benevolence . |
| 11 | First , the sending State 's liability arises from acts that may be committed in a country which is not a party to the European Convention on Human Rights . |
| 12 | Accordingly , to deal with this situation , the Act provides that an ‘ action lies in conversion for loss or destruction of goods which a bailee has allowed to happen in breach of his duty to his bailor ( that is to say it lies in a case which is not otherwise conversion , but would have been detinue before detinue was abolished ) . ’ |
| 13 | The New Testament teaches us that God is present and active in this world through his Holy Spirit , who is able to enter the hearts of individuals , giving new qualities of life and understanding in a way which we can not fully grasp , though we can experience it . |
| 14 | She then stood next to the telephone box , her stomach beginning to tighten in a way which was becoming sickeningly familiar . |
| 15 | Moreover , these correlations only achieved overall significance when the junctions were grouped in a way which may make sense , but was clearly post hoc . |
| 16 | A number of their linguistic products appear in a form which incorporates a speech facility while some variants of the Spell Master and Word Master compress the products to the size of credit cards . |
| 17 | When you plug in a Ricky you expect certain things — not too much power but tons of friendly jangle and loads of character . |
| 18 | As it turns out , however , both fared better than expected in an election which produced something positive for almost everyone . |
| 19 | Early in the fifteenth century , the problem of what constituted a nation arose as a practical issue at the Council of Constance , and , as might be expected in an assembly which contained many distinguished academics , the issue was debated in theoretical terms , although the original cause of the debate was essentially political . |
| 20 | Another factor which may influence the chances of conventional videodisc players is that in the 1990s , the collection of high quality , permanent recordings of movies and other programming might appeal in a way it never could in the early 1980s . |
| 21 | The men from Saatchi and Saatchi have been doing their best in the glossy mags with the slogan ‘ there 's a lot of Glasgoing on in 1990 ’ — but yesterday provided the taste of things to come in a city which has borne more than its fair share of music hall humour and Billy Connolly . |
| 22 | A converse implication of the " dress of thought " view is that it is possible to write in a style which is the nadir of plainness and neutrality . |
| 23 | The late Marguerite Yourcenar was also an admirer of Proust and she relates the history of her mother 's family in Dear Departed in a way which recalls Proust 's fidelity to our actual thinking about the past and to the sheer coincidences by which past and present can seem to illuminate one another . |
| 24 | The well-tempered individual 's ability to maintain order is precarious when he is located in a terrain which is uncontrolled . |
| 25 | And I think it is important in the Greater York context that the York new settlement be located in a district which is enthusiastic about the concept of developing a new settlement , because to do otherwise I think will undermine the role er function of the new settlement . |
| 26 | Where the burrows are located in a bank it is necessary for the gun to stand on the all-round vision requires one gun on each side of it — and each man needs to know exactly where the other man is standing . |
| 27 | The tank is located in a room whose walls contain recognizable orienting cues ; thus on the north wall there may be a clock , on the south a source of light , on the east an animal cage and so forth . |
| 28 | Whilst individuals in the company privately admit to knowing little about ‘ race and racism ’ , a major research contract which did not go out to open tender is safely located in an institution which can only with a degree of implausibility don the cloak of academic neutrality . |
| 29 | it 's like , I mean , I mean when I used to work in a hospital you were n't allowed to have hair down and hole in the tights , they 're a load of toffee cows |
| 30 | No one would accuse the Americans of being frightened of the new , or the Indians of refusing to show emotion , or of inability to communicate , but all need to work in an environment which encourages them to give of their best , and encourages them to look outwards rather than inwards . |