Example sentences of "way [pers pn] [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | So the only way I seemed to be able to keep Arthur was to become dependent on him . ’ |
| 2 | You do n't honestly believe he 's got anything to do with the way I happen to be feeling , do you ? ’ |
| 3 | There was no way I wanted to be robbed again and I determined if I had to stand in a queue it would be with this chain in my hand . |
| 4 | ‘ The way you contrived to be alone with me , despite the supervision and monitoring . ’ |
| 5 | She was aware of his hand coming to rest against her bare back , the warmth of his fingers stirring her senses in a way she knew to be totally illogical . |
| 6 | It was Catherine again and McLeish was mildly irritated by the way she seemed to be ahead of him . |
| 7 | In this way she lived to be a hundred years old , more or less . |
| 8 | In this way she seems to be a very stubborn character . |
| 9 | It 's the way we have to be if we 're to survive . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's the only way we seem to be like mother . ’ |
| 11 | In some peculiar way he seemed to be getting into his stride . |
| 12 | In time , though , she remembered the way it had to be . |
| 13 | ‘ It was rushed through , and because of the way it had to be constructed in getting the support of all 22 clubs , there was no way all the changes could be made in such a short space of time . |
| 14 | John marvelled at the way it seemed to be thinking for itself . |
| 15 | ‘ I now feel , after a year and a half on BP 's board , that I know enough about the company and the way it works to be able to make judgements about its style of management . |
| 16 | Just the way it has to be . |
| 17 | For one thing they are impossible to reach now and that is n't the way it has to be , it 's just the way it always is . |
| 18 | It either comes from the river beds or is scraped from rock ( tufa ) higher up the mountain — either way it has to be carried a long way over steep slopes . |
| 19 | That is the way it has to be . ’ |
| 20 | In an overconstrained situation , if the analysis indicates that there is only one way to produce a successful product , that is the way it has to be made . |
| 21 | Because er it 's a that 's that 's just the way it has to be for the present , at the end of the |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm sorry , but that 's the way it has to be . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Which has given me time to realise that the way I 've outlined is the way it has to be . |
| 24 | In fact the revised economic development strategy which Professor Lock probably does n't have a copy of , refers to inward inward investment as being desirable erm and is of critical importance but whilst it will be vigorously sort in this way it has to be said that the bulk of North Yorkshire suffers from a relative lack of financial incentives from Central Government in terms of whose regional policy does not have a priority . |
| 25 | That 's the way it has to be . |
| 26 | I think , though , I 'm always disappointed the way it seems to be that soaps raise this issue but then come back and resolve it by saying the real father is the blood father . |