Example sentences of "[verb] been [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it has been that way for five seasons . |
| 2 | I imagined Perkin threading along that trail at night , following the paint quite easily as he 'd been that way already in daylight , and being secretly pleased with himself because if he had inadvertently left any traces of his passage the first time they could be explained away naturally by the second . |
| 3 | Metaphysics would have been one way out , but he ca n't take that , so the alternative is to be a persecuted prophet . |
| 4 | Sometimes the ultimate question is only in theory left to the public authority ; for example , in some cases of review for jurisdictional errors of law or fact in which it is clear that if the authority had got the law or the facts right , its decision would have been different and could only have been one way . |
| 5 | This may have been one way in which a girl could emulate the " lad o' pairts " and improve herself through education . |
| 6 | If , as suggested above , he faced considerable initial hostility , and presided over a government which some churchmen found oppressive , religion could have been one way in which opposition was expressed . |
| 7 | Their relationship was civilized and uncomplicated , and she wished it could have been that way too for Vi and Jane . |
| 8 | It might have been that way for a while , Scum argued , but after a couple of weeks the Boroughs shitkickers moved in , and the game was up . |
| 9 | Just as , er just as well you did n't go out because erm you could have been half way out there in the plane or whate when erm |
| 10 | Stiff with pride — which she was now sick and tired of being told was a Leo trait — and buoyed up by the certain knowledge that it would have been morally indefensible for her to desert her father , Laura had taken some weeks to realise that there must surely have been another way for them to solve their problems . |
| 11 | For my experience would have been this way no matter how other experiences might or might not have been . |
| 12 | It had been one way of making firms more competitive . |
| 13 | There was the usual bawdy banter , of course , and it had been that way ever since she first put on her white apron and began serving behind the counter . |
| 14 | The pure white drifts of snow against the door of the hut convinced me that nobody had been that way recently . |
| 15 | Annabel wished that there had been some way young Eve could have been sent to university too . |
| 16 | Heather had been this way before him , had seen and understood what he would shortly see and might yet understand . |
| 17 | yes , and I , I do n't know whether I 've been that way , I honestly do n't know right then , so you 're all systems go , that 's the main thing |
| 18 | No horses have been this way since you drove them off , ’ he said to Allen . |
| 19 | ‘ You have been this way before . |
| 20 | Unacknowledged , it 's been that way for several years , as we have regularly tried to point out here as others wrongly gave the crown to Digital Equipment Corp , but both the Wall Street Journal and Datamation magazine have at last come round to agreeing that Fujitsu Ltd is the world 's second-largest computer company — with NEC Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co both now challenging DEC for the third place . |
| 21 | It 's been that way ever since I can remember . |
| 22 | For as long as I can remember it 's been that way . ’ |
| 23 | Yeah , I was gon na give you a ring to say it 's been this way , pick them up |