Example sentences of "have been [vb pp] [prep] [det] way " in BNC.

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1 This is the first time that a photographer has been recognised in this way .
2 This is the first time that a photographer has been recognised in this way .
3 Some of my best writing has been lost in this way , for I have reason to suppose that the letters were not kept , not even in an old shoe-box .
4 Any precious metal that has been manufactured in some way , including coins used for ornament .
5 It can be difficult to appreciate the amount by which the ground surface has been raised in this way .
6 Even the work of scribes writing centuries after the Conquest has been dismissed in this way , seemingly mainly because it is variable , and not because we can ( usually ) know whether the scribe was a first-language speaker of Anglo-Norman , or whether it would have been relevant if he had been .
7 Their Lordships do not have the details , but it does seem that at least some evidence has been obtained in this way , subject no doubt to objection at the trial .
8 Much detailed information about the vibration frequencies of different electronic states of diatomic molecules and some simple polyatomic molecules has been obtained in this way .
9 They were as follows : ( 1 ) there is a dispute or a difference between the parties which has been formulated in some way or other ( see 15.5 ) ; ( 2 ) the dispute or difference has been remitted by the parties to the person to resolve in such a manner that he is called on to exercise a judicial function ( see 15.6 ) ; ( 3 ) where appropriate , the parties must have been provided with an opportunity to present evidence and/or submissions in support of their respective claims in the dispute ( see 15.7 ) ; and ( 4 ) the parties have agreed to accept his decision ( see 15.8 ) .
10 The mill has been completely redesigned ; new offices have been built to accommodate regional staff , and almost every corner of the site has been affected in some way or another .
11 While , in the case of the loans raised from foreign sources , only part has been converted into dinar bank loans , the whole amount of the foreign exchange deposits has been converted in this way .
12 At least one double fatality has been caused in this way .
13 No other section of the community has been treated in this way .
14 This is not , of course , the first time that the play has been performed in this way — in 1967 , for instance , the National Theatre mounted a brilliant all-male ‘ As You Like It ’ , with Ronald Pickup as Rosalind and Anthony Hopkins ( ! ) as Audrey .
15 But so far only Brodsworth has been taken in this way and the signs are that English Heritage , which is under severe financial pressure , is not likely to take on many , if any , further houses .
16 When a bill has been negotiated in this way and drafted , it is then presented to the House for the first time .
17 MOD-BY the module has been modified in some way
18 That 's probably a set of tyres or something - it 's not a great deal of money in this day and age - but then failure is limited to actual breakage , wear and tear is excluded , it does n't cover the cost of working materials such as gaskets , if the vehicle has been modified in any way it 's excluded , it excludes any personal injury resulting from the breakdown , it covers erm the schedule is invalid if you have not covered the servicing aspects on page ten , the servicing aspects on page ten require you within ten days or two hundred and fifty miles of three thousand miles intervals — most cars now are six thousand mile intervals — to have the oil changed , so there 's a built-in additional service , and so it goes on .
19 It has been put in this way by the psychologist Richard Walters :
20 This does not mean that the ideal has been compromised in any way , or that Gandhi 's fundamental principle of non-violence has been qualified in order to take account of man 's weaknesses and imperfections .
21 After the dung has been processed in this way for about six weeks , the termites are able to eat and digest it , fungal threads , white knobs , residue and all .
22 But once some set of rules has been established in this way , we might well think it more important that these rules be publicly regarded as settled , so that people can plan accordingly , than that they be the best rules that could have been found ; this provides a reason why courts should leave the rule untouched even when they think the wrong choice was made in the first instance . "
23 This is another attempt to waste parliamentary time — already 280 hours has been wasted in this way in the past two decades . ’
24 ‘ Her friends will be surprised that the Duke has been coupled in this way with the Queen .
25 ‘ It will be interesting to see if the system has been improved in any way , but it will take a couple of months before we really see any indication of that , ’ said one insider .
26 The Fishing Temple at Sharpham in Devon has been let in this way for many years .
27 Rolle also hints that he might have been damaged in some way .
28 Indeed , if the seller 's consent could have been vitiated in that way , Parliament would never have needed to create the statutory offence of obtaining by false pretences .
29 But it was open , I mean it must have been fenced in some way later on .
30 Since the seal carvers needed both hands free for their work , the lenses may have been mounted in some way , either on stands on the work-bench or on something like spectacle frames .
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