Example sentences of "been [verb] [det] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , such a scheme would never wash with the public — who wants their water supplies to have been treated this way ? |
| 2 | In about three years ' time all GM 's new cars will have been developed this way . |
| 3 | It had been painted that way to make it stand out — the opposite of camouflage . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ It has always been done this way ’ is poor reason unless one knows why . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's always been done this way ’ is one of the biggest hurdles to overcome when persuading others . |
| 7 | He may also act on the principle that ‘ things have always been done this way ’ and justify his actions accordingly . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Should of been done any way . |
| 11 | Nothing has been decided either way . ’ |
| 12 | Many horses are aggressive , but fortunately few are mean , and those that are have most frequently been made that way by people . |
| 13 | Earl Grey was so English , so sedate , and maybe Ilsa had been living that way for fifty years . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It belonged to a huge and beautiful seal who said she just happened to have been drawn that way . |
| 16 | No , but if she is , she 's , she 's been going that way a long time . |
| 17 | ‘ It jolted me into making the decision to quit , but I 'd been moving that way for a long time . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 " . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . " |
| 24 | A through mineral train headed by Austerity 90215 has been sent this way , seen coming underneath the Midland at Lockoford sidings . |
| 25 | They reckoned then that anything in the river would have been sent half way across to Norway so that put paid to that search . |
| 26 | ‘ If artists have the right to fail , Glasgay ! does not , ’ says D'Angelo , whose modest £65,000 budget projection has been kept that way by trying to involve many indigenous grant-aided bodies in the year one programme . |
| 27 | They may ( or may not ) have been created that way , but , once they have been determined , we store our beliefs more efficiently in the form of symbols ( shorthand words and phrases which reflect a complete attitude to and assessment of a person or situation — e.g. ‘ She is a poor performer ’ ) and scripts ( models of how we act once certain situations are recognized ) . |
| 28 | If you have been thinking this way , practise having height in hand and using the airbrakes on the base leg . |
| 29 | ‘ I 've been working this way for 18 months now and I 'm really happy with how it 's going . |
| 30 | ‘ Hundreds of companies have been duped this way , ’ said a detective with the Northumbria Fraud Squad , which is investigating the Brandmakers ' case . |