Example sentences of "way [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | What would a fifteenth of the way round be ? |
| 2 | There were pictures in one of Gloria 's magazines of the decorated carriage Pulled by plumed horses that Her Majesty had travelled in before she became Her Majesty the Queen , when she was still just a Lady , on her way to be married . |
| 3 | BLONDE HAIR AND BLUE EYES IS NOT THE ONLY WAY TO BE |
| 4 | But you tend to think that 's what a girl should look like — blonde hair and blue eyes — and then you look in the mirror and you 've got short Afro hair , and that 's when you maybe start thinking that 's the only way to be . |
| 5 | Once , 25 or 30 years ago , they were working class East-Enders who could n't run a business but found in driving a cab a way to be free . |
| 6 | … She went out of her way to be unpleasant to people . |
| 7 | The realities of being in a situation where you ca n't choose your employment , which is an awful way to be when you do n't have any skills and you have to take whatever is dished out … there 's nothing worse than having to take what 's available . |
| 8 | This beeline may be reversed and used as a route of ascent from Horton but until a clear path has been formed by foot-traffic over the rough higher ground , it is not a way to be preferred to other more pleasant routes of ascent : apart from an exciting interlude midway , the climb becomes tedious . |
| 9 | They certainly will not go out of their way to be critical — and if they do they are not worth knowing in the first place ! |
| 10 | After snarling a few choice remarks at them from the corners of our mouths , such as , ‘ Get lost ! ’ or ‘ Beat it ! ’ , which we understood to be good American for , ‘ Please go away , we do not wish for company , ’ we managed to rid ourselves of a few of them , but two of the most persistent followed us until we were clear of the town , and then we realised that the only way to be left alone was for us to be really rude . |
| 11 | That is n't the way to be sorry for people — to make them conspicuous . |
| 12 | For graduates the way to be active is Convocation . |
| 13 | It 's a nice way to be ; I do n't think you need all these backing tapes and samples . |
| 14 | The future is not a blank wall to line up against , but a way to be walked . |
| 15 | ‘ I am an élitist — there 's no way to be anything else . |
| 16 | It 's like the attitude that you have to be good and religious , think the right thoughts , wear the right clothes , believe the right things , come from the right background , if you are in any way to be acceptable to God . |
| 17 | ( a ) There is usually no real way to be sure that the piece of equipment devised is adequate for the purpose unless of course it is a straight copy of an existing commercial model . |
| 18 | That 's the best way to be helpful to your mum . |
| 19 | In this case the only way to be sure is to go through the procedure of HIV testing . |
| 20 | The only authentic way to be good is to be good ‘ for nothing ’ : that was to become the ringing insistence of her finest treatise , The Sovereignty of Good ( 1970 ) . |
| 21 | Neither are completely reliable , and the only way to be sure of landing an effective shot is to play the odds — buy several machines ! |
| 22 | We want rights of way to be legally defined , definitive maps brought up to date and any conflicts sorted out . |
| 23 | We want rights of way to be properly managed so that people who litter , trespass , leave gates open , or whose dogs kill sheep can be dealt with . |
| 24 | For example , if the only way to be a subject is to be constituted by the existing ISAs , how are we to explain the fact that a theorist such as Connolly is so convinced of the necessity of intentional subjecthood , while Althusser views it as a contingency ? |
| 25 | Being let down by the program that£s supposed to save your bacon is a disturbing experience — an expensive way to be reminded that you should never again rely on just one back-up . |
| 26 | In the first ever co-ordinated airlift of this scale to repair erosion damage , the flagstones , recycled from demolished Lancashire cotton mills , were lowered by helicopter at strategic sites along the Way to be laid as paths . |
| 27 | The legislation was to be centrally administered by the Board of Education ; it was in no way to be associated with the Poor Law . |
| 28 | For Israel 's way to be hidden Yahweh could mean that God can not see Israel 's way , or will not see Israel 's way , or has caused Israel not to be able to see its own way . |
| 29 | The only way to be good at this job is to put everything you 've got into it . |
| 30 | Ca can we just look at a I do n't know which way to be specific or to look at the general first , can I just |