Example sentences of "[verb] been [num] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Metaphysics would have been one way out , but he ca n't take that , so the alternative is to be a persecuted prophet . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | This may have been one way in which a girl could emulate the " lad o' pairts " and improve herself through education . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It had been one way of making firms more competitive . |