Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [verb] [art] [adj] way " in BNC.
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1 | Whether in its truest sense — the sale of state-owned assets — or the conversion of ownership from an institution 's members to a new breed of shareholders , privatisation has made profiteering a respectable way of life . |
2 | There is a trick in making privatisations a success , something that the UK government has had to learn the hard way , and it seems that the Turks have yet to learn it : Reuter reports from Istanbul that the public offer of 20% of the shares in Netas Northern Electric Telekomunikasyon AS was undersubscribed , suggesting that the reason was that the maximum for which any one buyer could subscribe was 5,000 shares , costing the equivalent of $4,450 , which is thought to have put off institutional and foreign buyers . |
3 | EVERY now and again , just when flower arranging has begun to seem a reasonable way of spending Saturday afternoons , the game produces something which restores the faith . |
4 | They may have acquired this caution by observational learning — watching other monkeys trying to eat these insects and seeing the way they reacted to the prey 's ‘ chemical warfare ’ — or they may have evolved an inborn reaction towards bright patterns , enabling them to avoid such species from birth without any learning process , or they may have learned caution the hard way , by personal experience . |
5 | and you 've got to go the other way . |
6 | I can work that way , I 've got to go the other way . |
7 | I 've been in and out of places , I 've had to learn the hard way . |
8 | The president is not free to choose , to start wars wherever he feels like it , the president is not free to make agreements with any country he feels like making it with and some presidents have had to learn the hard way . |
9 | We have managed to get a fair way into this chapter on food and diet before mentioning that subject dear to a slimmer 's heart , the calorific value of food . |