Example sentences of "[vb past] been [verb] [prep] [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | We found ( Appendix II , section 5 ) that on one London estate where we held group discussions several people lived at addresses which they said had been blacklisted in this way , because of bad payers who had lived there before them ; as a consequence , they felt they were being made to suffer from the bad reputation of the previous tenants . |
| 2 | The conversation had been unsettling in other ways . |
| 3 | For the first time she recognized that secretly she had been looking for some way out for herself and Midnight . |
| 4 | These next few pages are the reactions of one who went to the Centre , came away evangelical and kept saying to himself , ‘ All shipshape and Bristol fashion ’ , only to fall from the crest into the deepest trough , but thankfully to climb up again to a sensible plateau and finally discover that he had been fortified in more ways than he had expected . |
| 5 | Quite recently the King of France and the King 's own sister , Queen Margaret of Scotland , had been obliged in this way ; but now Queen Catherine 's uncle , the German Emperor Charles V , held the Pope virtually prisoner in Rome and had compelled him not to agree to Henry 's divorce . |
| 6 | Mr Ackerman stressed that in the five years the 20-pupil day school had been run by the Mannafields Christian Education Association at Carberry , near Musselburgh , East Lothian , no pupil had been punished in this way . |
| 7 | It is difficult to believe that the historians were not party to such constructions , although Goody might justifiably envisage that such honourable men as Thucydides would have been shocked if his material had been manipulated in this way by the politicians . |
| 8 | All of his staff had been damaged in some way , but for those who were shy , or clever enough to hide themselves from Lennon 's advance . |
| 9 | A Staff Committee had been mooted as one way of overcoming these difficulties . |
| 10 | Three fathers of cases and two fathers of controls ( and no mothers of either ) had been monitored in this way before their child was conceived ( relative risk 9.0 , 95% confidence interval 1.0 to 107.8 ) . |
| 11 | Birmingham radicalism had been subdued in this way in the famous riots of 1791 against the radical dissenter Joseph Priestley . |
| 12 | The competition had been hijacked in other ways too . |
| 13 | Technical innovation had slipped ; markets had been eroded in various ways ; some of the products were too mature for growth . |
| 14 | ‘ No , of course there has n't , I 'd have known if Dana had been hurt in any way . |