Example sentences of "way that [vb mod] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 1988–89 Committee spent a long time agonising over the problem of how to keep the broadcasters at arms length , so that their editors would not be able to provide the signal in ways that might be journalistically attractive but would be repugnant to Members . |
| 2 | In her essay ‘ Sculpture in the Expanded Field ’ , 5 art historian Rosalind Krauss explored ideas about categories in ways that might be useful to this discussion about textiles : ‘ over the last 10 years rather surprising things have come to be called sculpture : narrow corridors with TV monitors at the ends , large photographs documenting country hikes … categories like sculpture and painting have been kneaded and stretched and twisted in an extraordinary demonstration of elasticity , and display of the way in which a cultural term can be extended to include just about anything ’ . |
| 3 | In some ways that might be good news , some ways it is n't . |
| 4 | There is a need to distinguish between a child 's mental representation and the different ways that may be used to realize that mental representation pictorially . |
| 5 | Hunters do not portray the hunt in ways that could be construed as aggressive , either in the hunter 's emotional state or in his attitude to the prey . |
| 6 | They had their pagan deities , and worshipped them in ways that could be quite riotous . |
| 7 | Social workers can help by understanding the demanding nature of residential care , and by building bridges in ways that will be explained . |
| 8 | Process redesign may have generated more hype than light , but at its core is the imaginative use of today 's computing power in ways that can be peculiarly useful to banks . |
| 9 | In order to test the rival theories , it is necessary to define maturity , volume and price volatility in ways that can be measured . |
| 10 | Opinions on a whole range of theoretical issues were polarized in ways that can be related to positions taken up in the struggle for control of the social framework of science . |
| 11 | A Greenpeace spokesman commented : " The dictates of free trade lead to competitive pressures on companies , which seek the lowest costs in ways that can be harmful to the environment . " |
| 12 | Frederic W. Farrar 's Eric , or , little by little of 1858 is the often-quoted example , in which the boys show open affection for each other in a way that would be at least ridiculed in our own harsh world of emotional constraint : |
| 13 | The contributors all came from the Anglo-Catholic wing of the Church of England , but their shared aim was to assist the re-expression of the central Christian doctrines in a way that would be appropriate to their own time , and that would take account of the historical character both of the Bible and of subsequent theology . |
| 14 | Women 's increasing commitment to the labour market does not appear to pay off in the way that would be expected if people were actually rewarded according to their ability and effort . |
| 15 | Further , the original theory of nationalization put forward by the Attlee Government after 1945 stressed that corporations should be free to take commercial risks in a way that would be inappropriate for government departments . |
| 16 | In the event that no single party enjoys an overall majority in the Commons then the issue of sending for the Prime Minister and refusing a dissolution become matters so charged with political manoeuvring that the Crown would be drawn into politics in a public way that would be bound to invite a keener scrutiny as to what should be her proper role within the British constitution . |
| 17 | They also advocated the use of social survey methods of research to show , accurately and in considerable detail , the actual extent and character of existing social conditions in a way that would be difficult to challenge . |
| 18 | As part of his project of recasting psychoanalysis in post-structuralist terms , Jacques Lacan has rewritten the Cartesian cogito in a way that might be seen as approximating more to Augustine 's formulation than Descartes 's : ‘ I think where I am not , therefore I am where I do not think ’ . |
| 19 | Did you ever have the tendency to objectify women , in a sexual sense , or over-romanticise women in a way that might be equally offensive to feminists ? |
| 20 | The problem of succession had by no means been solved , and certainly not in a way that could be used as a precedent for the future . |
| 21 | A study showed that capsaicin , the ‘ hot ’ ingredient in chilli , enhances the appreciation of food and may stimulate the body 's natural painkillers in a way that could be addictive . |
| 22 | Teachers have been forced to teach in a way that could be useful to those who had no natural bent for literature at all . |
| 23 | If there is any way that could be modified ? ’ |
| 24 | she did n't say well er my husband brought me here because it was a decision that she had parted , it was a choice she had made as well and so she , she excepts her responsibility , she excepts her blame and she goes to return so there was , there was this sense of confession and , and confession can be costly when we 've got to admit that I was wrong , I did wrong , I was mistaken , I went the wrong way that could be a costly mistake and , and , and er costly experience for us to go through , but surely the , the true sign of repent is that we do acknowledge our sin , we acknowledge our failure , that we acknowledge what it means to god , we ca n't shift that blame onto somebody else then also consider not just the cost that Naomi had to pay in going back , but also there was a cost for Auper and for Ruth as well as Moabias there would be little joy for them in Israel , they were foreigners , they were strangers , there would n't be much hope for happiness for them , there would be very little likeliness for them ever getting married in or remarrying er in , in Israel , they would n't be able to worship there own god , they 'd be taken from one culture to another , there 'd be taken from one language to another , what was it gon na be like for them , alright , perhaps whilst they were living with Naomi perhaps she could pull a few strings for them , but what happens when she goes and they are left by themselves and yet it would appear that with Naomi making her decision to return that they too these two daughters in law they decided to go to Bethlehem with her and it tells us that they set out together but perhaps they had n't thought it really through because their not totally committed to us and as they come towards the frontier and their gon na pass into in , back into Judah with their few miserable possessions that they 've gathered together , Naomi again considers the consequences facing these two young women , Auper and Ruth , they continued with her , as she pleads with them to go back home , Judah is no place for a foreigner , Judah is no place for somebody to come unless they are part of gods people , and I 'm reminded of again of what it tells me in , in the book of acts , that in the early church , that people were actually frightened , frightened to join with the disciples , they were frightened to join the church , there was no room for , for stragglers , there was no room for hangers on , there was no room for those who went just because they thought it was gon na be the next , the in thing to do , but folk were actually frightened of joining because they knew they had to put their lives right , they knew they had to live holy lives , they knew that god had to be lord and master in their lives and unless they were willing to do that and be committed to him they were actually frightened of joining and one of the great weaknesses of the church today is that it becomes and it can becoming our thinking and nothing more than just something we join , something we belong to , something we go along to er as like a club , like an association , but that 's not the picture we see it in the New Testament , it is a very exclusive body , it is a very exclusive grouping , a grouping of those who have committed themselves to Jesus Christ and that 's why not every body is a member of the local church , not every body who goes to church on a Sunday is a member of a church to Jesus Christ now they know if they are , but other people may not know , they know and the lord knows , I know if I belong to him and he knows if I belong to him other people may not , I can put on the act , I can look as though I 'm playing the part , I can go through the routine , I can , I can , I can fool every body , but he knows and I know , and he knows and you know and so Jesus said not every body who says lord , lord on that day will I acknowledge and recognize and so for Ruth and Nao er yes Ruth and Auper it was gon na be different of course for them as foreigners in Judah especially when Naomi goes and she pleads with them go back home , Judah is not place for Moabias , she knew what it had been like to be a foreigner , she knew what it had been like to be an alien land in an alien culture in a different religion with a different language she had known the bitterness of it all , she pleads with them go back home she prayers for them the lord bless you , the lord you know be gracious to you and so on , but they refused and again Naomi puts it to them , to please go back and Auper reconsiders and she takes the counsel and advice of her mother in law but no so Ruth and Naomi turns and says look your sister in law 's gone back , she 's gone home , you go as well , you ca n't do it , its a too greater price for you to pay , its a choice you must n't make , a decision you must n't make , your gon na have poverty , your gon na have loneliness , your gon na have hardship . |
| 25 | If anything I think women 's education now has to compensate a little erm and provide for those areas in which women start in a way that could be considered a handicap to men . |
| 26 | We are lucky in that we can draw on centuries of experience and combine them with modern materials in a way that will be pleasing from year one . |
| 27 | To write a novel is to conduct imaginary personages through imaginary space and time in a way that will be simultaneously interesting , perhaps amusing , surprising yet convincing , representative or significant in a more than merely personal , private sense . |
| 28 | But perhaps in a way that will be something of a surprise . |
| 29 | Eels come into it somehow , but not in a way that can be described in a family newspaper . |
| 30 | The visual cortex consists of tightly packed columns of cells , each column corresponding to a particular point in the visual field in a way that can be mathematically defined . |