Example sentences of "way that [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The method is designed to accentuate ways that advance your body clock and play down ways that cause it to delay . |
| 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 | All the actors are local people but the company would n't allow anyone from the works was to take part … she says , It was very disappointing initially but in some ways that makes it more important that we should go ahead with the project . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | This matter must not be singled out in a way that allows it to be used to override National Park objectives . |
| 8 | This matter must not be singled out in a way that allows it to be used to override National Park objectives . |
| 9 | The fire-bellied toad normally prefers to remain hidden and its back is patterned and coloured in a way that enables it to do so by blending in with its surroundings . |
| 10 | The new literacy arising from compulsory elementary education meant that boys could read about a sport which was organized in a way that made it difficult to watch regularly . |
| 11 | In the past I 'd behaved in a way that made it impossible for women to stay with me — for instance , I 'd cut off emotionally , or refuse to have sex , or start seeing other women . |
| 12 | At that time , the physics course at Oxford was arranged in a way that made it particularly easy to avoid work . |
| 13 | She said please in a way that made it a special request of her own . |
| 14 | He smiled slowly down at her , his gaze centring on her mouth in a way that made it start to throb . |
| 15 | ‘ Barbarians stole the statues , ’ Nicolo repeated in a way that made it clear he would accept no argument . |
| 16 | Analysts said the statement was phrased in a way that made it difficult to confirm or refute . |
| 17 | But Newley sings it in a way that personalises it . |
| 18 | There is also a tendency to state the obvious in a way that stops it from being obvious . |
| 19 | He is tempted to reinterpret the past in a way that makes it fit in more readily with the rendezvous at the small hotel . |
| 20 | They tell it in a way that makes it make sense . |
| 21 | Instead of a glance , which is always acceptable , they keep staring at the animal in a way that makes it feel uncomfortable . |
| 22 | For these reasons , it is possible to hope that the House of Lords might , if called upon to do so , reconsider the decision in a way that makes it plain that the right to freedom of speech in public is not wholly dependent upon the discretion of the policeman on the spot — important though that will undoubtedly always be — but is guided by rules and principles that recognise , inter alia the importance of freedom of speech in public , and the fact that the person interfered with was going about his otherwise lawful business . |
| 23 | A major weakness , however , is that this element is fitted only roughly into the discussion , in a way that makes it difficult to integrate the dynamic with the static features of the analysis . |
| 24 | The latter falls off more rapidly , indicating that the turbulence changes in a way that makes it relatively less efficient as a heat transfer mechanism than as a momentum transfer mechanism . |
| 25 | The tendency for L to find its own maximum value leads to interesting developments if the initial density distribution is set up in a way that makes it initially larger than this maximum . |
| 26 | in London in , in a sort of clever way that makes it sound as though there 's some terrific good reasoning for it |
| 27 | erm I think in terms of techniques is is is a level of awareness really , to be able to respond to children erm with their curiosity and with their erm expressions of anxiety erm in a way that makes it all right for them to be feeling the way they are , and I do n't think it 's simple as just saying a technique , I think it 's what we can offer as adults comes from an inner awareness that we have as adults , that we can convey to our children , because it 's not just the techniques , or the behaviour , or the words that we use , but it 's those feelings behind the words . |
| 28 | It is hard to judge how effective MI6 is today because on the only recent occasion it was needed , to warn us of the Argentinian invasion of the Falkland Islands in 1982 , it either failed completely or the Foreign Office deliberately presented MI6 's information to the government in a way that precluded it being taken seriously . |