Example sentences of "way that [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We may be meant to think that time is simultaneous , in a way that may owe something to the simultaneity propounded , ‘ perhaps ’ , in Eliot 's Four Quartets , where ‘ History is now and England ’ ; or that it is cyclical , a turning wheel , with human depravity paling into insignificance as the wheel turns into modern times . |
| 2 | It can hold couples together in a way that may seem to the outsider against all reason . |
| 3 | to cause or knowingly to permit any matter to enter a stream , so as to tend ( either directly or in combination with other matter which is caused or permitted to enter the stream ) to impede the flow of the stream in a way that would lead to a substantial aggravation of pollution due to other causes ; |
| 4 | The cell bodies of the sympathetic nerves to the upper gastrointestinal tract which are located within the irradiated volume thus represent a credible target since they might reasonably be expected to influence the duodenum in such a way that would lead to a susceptibility to ulcer by , for example , reducing mucosal blood flow or bicarbonate secretion , both of which functions are under sympathetic control . |
| 5 | It does not call for explicit statements of the objectives of expenditure in a way that would enable a Minister 's plans to be tested against general government strategy : nor can it regularly embody detailed analysis of existing programmes and of major policy options on them . |
| 6 | We wanted to make it easier for people to get the money to which they were entitled , and I set my hand to introducing the reforms in a way that would enable people to do so . |
| 7 | There is a set of genes involved in patterning the embryo , the homeobox genes ( Chapter 7 ) , which are expressed in the developing limb buds in just the Way that would suggest that they may encode positional information . |
| 8 | The urge to cash in on contemporary themes remained , however , and another small group of films attempted to dramatize these issues in a way that would avoid the pitfalls of labour films . |
| 9 | Will he therefore support a cross-party approach to Northern Ireland affairs during the election and unequivocally reject any partisan trading with the Anglo-Irish Agreement in a way that would reverse the peace process after the next election ? |
| 10 | The barrister behaved impeccably , and indicated repeatedly that he was not prepared to concede that he had ‘ offended against [ section 19A of the Act of 1985 ] in a way that would entitle your Honour to make an order . ’ |
| 11 | The right-wing intellectuals sought to influence postwar political culture in a way that would destigmatise their fascist ideas . |
| 12 | Now members of LA 's rock ‘ aristocracy ’ , they may be viewed in some quarters as an anachronism but no-one could deny that they can still draw the big crowds in a way that would make many a ‘ hip ’ band envious . |
| 13 | But other marsupials live in a way that would make such an exposed method of transport positively lethal . |
| 14 | ‘ The expectations may be based upon some statement or undertaking by , or on behalf of , the public authority which has the duty of making the decision , if the authority has , through its officers , acted in a way that would make it unfair or inconsistent with good administration for him to be denied such an inquiry . |
| 15 | Ecology was a parallel move designed not to transcend field studies , but to transform them in a way that would make them genuinely scientific . |
| 16 | If it were left to itself the House of Commons could produce independent members in a way that would make the King 's Government impossible since it could refuse to grant the money needed to carry out his will . |
| 17 | Proportional representation in Parliament might translate into disproportionate power in government in a way that would make the established first-past-the-post inequalities look rather more fair than is often seen to be the case . |
| 18 | Many aspects of the interaction between employers and employees are not covered by formal contracts because important elements in that interaction are not readily measurable in a way that would make a formal contract enforceable in court . |
| 19 | Well it 's just that for that , I mean that 's all , it 's all relative for those conditions there are , there is too much labour on the land , you erm , if you could increase agricultural productivity in a way that would displace labour and that 's very difficult to do , well you can , you can do it er most , most capital is labour displacing but not all , not all capital , erm so you could , whereas I see , I see what you are saying is that , why well the you could g you could , you could do it right even though that there are a lot of people on the land er you could still make them wholly productive by giving them more capital that was n't labour that was n't labour displacing , like you give them better seeds for example , like that would increase the productivity of the land , there would n't be so much you know population pressure on the land er because everybody would have enough to eat and we could er actually sell something , right . |
| 20 | ‘ To the Daidalaion ’ ( Knossos tablet Fp 1 ) would have allowed the administrators at Knossos to use the offering in any way that would benefit the Labyrinth . |
| 21 | They should be able to grasp a total situation from the fragments presented to them and respond linguistically in a way that would benefit their business . |
| 22 | As soon as Ruth acknowledged her poverty and her willingness to work God stepped in and guided her life in a way that would bring great blessing . |
| 23 | Yet while he did n't much care about the outcome of Plainsong , except in a generally patriotic sense , he cared very much that it should n't fail in any way that would leave a vindictive Foreign Office with a load of blame to distribute . |
| 24 | At a press conference Mr Fyodorov stressed that any new aid should be delivered in a way that would leave a political impression on the Russian people . |
| 25 | The first answer repeats the original response in a more general way that would apply to other speeds too . |
| 26 | Frequently husbands and wives will attempt to arouse each other in a way that would suit them personally and this causes problems . |
| 27 | Restoring the hydrogeological balance includes the reopening of sections of the Lagoon enclosed for fish farming ( ‘ valli di pesca ’ ) , if possible in a controlled way that would take some account of the commercial interests involved . |
| 28 | Deep gashes of black under the eyes , skin the colour of ashes , a slight wobbliness to his movements , His speech is fastidious , precise in a way that would seem pompous if he were at all ebullient ; but with his small , gave voice — sometimes withering , always withered — the impression is of a wary distrust of words and the ways they can be misconstrued . |
| 29 | Well if we 're continually in contact with people as growing children who do n't allow us to express our feelings , or who behave in a way that would seem to deny that those feelings of hate and rage and love in their extremes exist at all , then obviously one does n't develop a sense of trust in what one perceives from oneself , and that erm on erm an accumulative basis is going to result in a person who does n't feel terribly confident about the feelings and their awareness that they have . |
| 30 | She flounced into the bathroom , and then tried to think how to flounce out again in any way that would get her past his indispensable face and into the bloody lift . |