Example sentences of "have [be] [adj] [prep] [art] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such a model has been influential in the way we think about and respond to a variety of social problems but has been particularly significant in framing research , policy and practice in child abuse . |
| 2 | However , there has been little in the way of tangible action in the post-war period to promote cycling in Britain , so that the rider has had to endure a steady worsening of the travel environment as traffic has become heavier , journeys more circuitous , accidents more pervasive and the relative attractiveness of the bike lowered by comparison with the seductive advantages of the car . |
| 3 | During Lowthorpe 's history there has been little in the way of non-agricultural employment . |
| 4 | Despite the poor results , manager Turlough O'Connor , has been happy with the way his side were playing . |
| 5 | John Major must secretly have been pleased at the way last week 's royal shocker deflected attention from the summit — the rest of us were just pleased to avoid being bored to death by this most tedious of Edinburgh festivals . |
| 6 | I feel sure many of your readers will have been annoyed by the way your reporter allowed our accurate and detailed evidence to the Welsh Affairs Committee on the way some planning committees have violated planning policies over recent years , to be so easily dismissed by the chairman of one of the guilty district councils . |
| 7 | Outside Cabinet Leon Brittan argued in a speech that the Government must have the right to look at new ideas , although I suspect that both Leon and Geoffrey Howe must have been appalled at the way the issue had been handled . |
| 8 | ‘ Then Orient came in for me and I could not have been happier with the way things worked out . ’ |
| 9 | In fact Mr Major , who is said to have been delighted with the way Mr Waldegrave introduced the health reforms , has put him in charge of implementing the Citizen 's Charter . |
| 10 | This showed him nothing except that Ross had been skilful in the way he had chosen to combine places with times . |
| 11 | The undertaking was the dream of Yoshikuni Kamichika , its president , who , on a visit to Holland had been impressed at the way the Dutch had managed to retain an ecological balance despite their economic growth . |
| 12 | My concern about the caravan site was only a kind of self-importance , and , as a result of my terrible selfishness poor Tom had been frightened in a way that might well scar him for much longer than that little stone . |
| 13 | ‘ As for the law changes , I have watched games on television and have been impressed with the way in which the Southern Hemisphere countries have adapted to the new requirements . |
| 14 | I have been impressed with the way Wilkinson has built up the squad over the last few years . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , the SDA 's approaches towards urban policy have been innovative in a way that the overwhelmingly property-orientated UDCs have not . |
| 16 | ‘ I have been proud of the way we have played in England and believe we are becoming a better team with every game . |