Example sentences of "been [verb] [adj] way " in BNC.

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1 then it you know they might have been delayed one way or another .
2 However , such a scheme would never wash with the public — who wants their water supplies to have been treated this way ?
3 In about three years ' time all GM 's new cars will have been developed this way .
4 It had been painted that way to make it stand out — the opposite of camouflage .
5 I knew that I should not be able to forget them again until the business had been resolved one way or the other .
6 Well again er , er a three bedroomed house , I would , you see and they were putting one plug in , in , in each , each bedroom and , and two plugs in the main bedroom so they dropped one down altogether and erm , erm in a lounge like this to put two plugs in , sort of one in that corner and one in that corner it 's no good to anybody , it 's , as much as anything else was er , er about placing plugs as well er , if one 's only going to have two plugs well then least one should be able to place them in , in the right positions , er putting them behind doors is , is , is no good at all , a lot of them have been done that way because the it always means flex is going to be draped across the , the door if people are walking in gon na trip over it and erm , they probably got down to now , something er just less than the standard I would think in the , in the last houses they built .
7 ‘ It has always been done this way ’ is poor reason unless one knows why .
8 ‘ It 's always been done this way ’ is one of the biggest hurdles to overcome when persuading others .
9 He may also act on the principle that ‘ things have always been done this way ’ and justify his actions accordingly .
10 The splendid and spirited pictures in the early printed herbals had been done this way , but as increasingly detailed and accurate illustrations were demanded , plates etched or engraved on copper became the norm .
11 The authority for doing things this way lies in the fact that they have always been done this way and so questioning is not encouraged .
12 Should of been done any way .
13 Nothing has been decided either way . ’
14 Not a lot to say Mr Chairman , I think it 's all been said one way or the other .
15 Many horses are aggressive , but fortunately few are mean , and those that are have most frequently been made that way by people .
16 Earl Grey was so English , so sedate , and maybe Ilsa had been living that way for fifty years .
17 Maggie was tempted to that particular plot , for the story had been told that way so many times , and it is very hard , at moments of crisis , to re-cast the language and the shape of old stories .
18 It belonged to a huge and beautiful seal who said she just happened to have been drawn that way .
19 No , but if she is , she 's , she 's been going that way a long time .
20 ‘ It jolted me into making the decision to quit , but I 'd been moving that way for a long time .
21 Some living breathing thing that has succumbed to insanity , or been born that way , and which the Beastline and the Cruidlin have taken care of .
22 The " Big Book " of alcoholics Anonymous describes some unfortunate people as being " naturally incapable of grasping and developing a manner of living which demands rigorous honesty " and says that " they are not at fault ; they seem to have been born that way " .
23 The preceding sentence , " They are not at fault ; they " seem to have been born that way " is itself an honest acceptance that addictive disease is stronger in some people than in others and that the acceptance of defeat and the wish " to go to any lengths " to get into recovery is ultimately a personal decision for each sufferer and not something that can be imposed by anyone else .
24 Law by convention is never complete , because new issues constantly arise that have not been settled one way or the other by whatever institutions have conventional authority to decide them .
25 Sex having been invented this way ( and later used to help the individual to develop disease resistance and the species to evolve more quickly ) a new problem arose : when an egg and a sperm fused during sex , a battle ensued between them to monopolise the resulting offspring .
26 ‘ This tour , if it is allowed by the courts , will be the Barnes 's salvation ’ , said National Gallery director J. Carter Brown , ‘ because when it comes back from Paris and Japan , there will be many millions of dollars that will have been generated this way .
27 But if no decision has been taken either way , then the court should be free to decide on the merits , making the best decision for the future , though of course taking into account strategic consistency . "
28 The legislative purpose of the Trade Union and Labour Relations Act 1974 , said Lord Scarman , was ‘ to sweep away not only the structure of industrial relations created by the Industrial Relations Act 1971 , which it was passed to repeal , but also the restraints of judicial review which the courts have been fashioning one way or another since the enactment of the Trade Disputes Act 1906 …
29 A through mineral train headed by Austerity 90215 has been sent this way , seen coming underneath the Midland at Lockoford sidings .
30 They reckoned then that anything in the river would have been sent half way across to Norway so that put paid to that search .
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