Example sentences of "[art] way [pers pn] [verb] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Do n't you ever realise , ’ said Helen , ‘ that the way we live is unlike the way other people live ? ’ |
| 2 | Things were very different from the way they had been in the colonial period : |
| 3 | But at the time I felt rejected and useless , because I was n't needed in the way I had been for so long. , |
| 4 | ‘ It took her six years to mention the second child to me , and because of the way she 's been towards me , I 've never had an avenue to find out whether he was my son or not . ’ |
| 5 | We 've always had drams , but the way it developed was like a natural progression . |
| 6 | That 's the way it had been for longer than she could remember . |
| 7 | In his pronouncements , science was no longer subordinate to theology in the way it had been for Roger Bacon , Thomas Aquinas , or Nicole Oresme . |
| 8 | This was having something in common with your lover , she thought , remembering the way it had been with Mike , who was interested only in banking and golf and what he called making a home for one 's family . |
| 9 | The dock was fenced off , but not the way it had been as a real dock , with real cargoes to steal . |
| 10 | Therefore the Australian move to make whaling more humane was in fact a move to get back to the way it had been after a serious deterioration . |
| 11 | It 's just the way it 's been for years . |
| 12 | He expects to organize all the surprises — that 's the way it 's been until now . ’ |
| 13 | That is the way he conducts his business and that is the way it has been for centuries . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I know David and Cath were planning a normal family Christmas at home , the way it has been for several years , ’ Mrs Smith said . |
| 15 | ‘ I know David and Cath were planning a normal family Christmas at home , the way it has been for several years . |
| 16 | But I hope Graham will look at my bowling this winter in a different light to the way it has been in the past by England . |
| 17 | The way it works is by injecting nitrogen gas into a 2.45GHz microwave plasma . |