Example sentences of "[prep] way that [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lévi-Strauss accepted the traditional role of anthropology to ‘ explain' the differences of alien cultures in ways that make them recognisable as the same ‘ underneath ’ . |
| 2 | The problems are formidable and they interlock in ways that make them more difficult to tackle . |
| 3 | It is time , it is thought , for English to organize itself in ways that make it more like a proper academic discipline , with clear procedures and goals . |
| 4 | So with the gradual release of information about Stalinism and the terrible losses of life in the labour camps , a whole generation of political activists lost their faith , not only in Russia , but in the hope that human beings can radically alter their society in ways that make it more equal and more just . |
| 5 | Often he acted in ways that made him seem like a child demanding to be looked after . |
| 6 | But those who read his work , and might potentially have taken up the challenges it provoked , generally modified the project in ways that made it unrecognizable . |
| 7 | A work such as Judith Weir 's A Night At The Chinese Opera ( 1987 ) plays with narrative continuity and frames of reference in ways that tie it much more closely to modern literary devices than to any musical antecedents ; Harrison Birtwhistle 's The Mask of Orpheus ( 1986 ) uses all the dramatic devices and timeshifts an opera can muster to tease out the contradictory bundle of myths around the Orpheus legend . |
| 8 | In an organization , they may rarely come to the attention of a predominantly male management in ways that give them power and encouragement . |
| 9 | Moments of panic in the national efficiency debate often orchestrated by the new popular press — enabled medics to dramatically represent their new scientific concepts in ways that gained them intellectual hegemony and popular credibility . |