Example sentences of "way that [verb] it " in BNC.
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1 | This matter must not be singled out in a way that allows it to be used to override National Park objectives . |
2 | This matter must not be singled out in a way that allows it to be used to override National Park objectives . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | At that time , the physics course at Oxford was arranged in a way that made it particularly easy to avoid work . |
7 | She said please in a way that made it a special request of her own . |
8 | He smiled slowly down at her , his gaze centring on her mouth in a way that made it start to throb . |
9 | ‘ Barbarians stole the statues , ’ Nicolo repeated in a way that made it clear he would accept no argument . |
10 | Analysts said the statement was phrased in a way that made it difficult to confirm or refute . |
11 | But Newley sings it in a way that personalises it . |
12 | There is also a tendency to state the obvious in a way that stops it from being obvious . |
13 | He is tempted to reinterpret the past in a way that makes it fit in more readily with the rendezvous at the small hotel . |
14 | They tell it in a way that makes it make sense . |
15 | Instead of a glance , which is always acceptable , they keep staring at the animal in a way that makes it feel uncomfortable . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | in London in , in a sort of clever way that makes it sound as though there 's some terrific good reasoning for it |
21 | 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 . |
22 | 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 . |