Example sentences of "[noun] had [verb] [art] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jazz had become a way of life for her . |
| 2 | In fact the 3000 MkIII had gone the way of many a sports car in its dotage and started to take on a softer aspect . |
| 3 | The collapse of the English plan had opened the way for the possibility of marriage within Scotland , to Arran 's son . |
| 4 | Within this context he also criticized families for whom welfare assistance had become a way of life . |
| 5 | The tall , dark-haired girl had prepared the way for me , and I said ‘ Now let us all kneel , and cry to that same Jesus who spoke those words , ’ and down on their knees they fell every one of them , reverently , on that damp stone floor , some saying the words after me , others moaning and weeping . |
| 6 | If a girl had exceeded the way she should behave I would send for her parents . |
| 7 | Yesterday , Dr Colin Campbell , of Horticulture Research International 's experimental station at East Malling , Kent , said his team had found a way of predicting the migration patterns of harmful aphids and could lay on ambushes to kill them when they arrived . |
| 8 | Jesus had shown the way back to God and had demonstrated in his own person that he was the Way , but men and women in order to return to God would need to freely join themselves to the new humanity of Christ . |
| 9 | I half-hoped , half-dreaded the mast would go up in sparks and a bang when the Big Man pulled the lever ; that FAKINTIL had found a way to wrap half a dozen shearing charges around the legs . |
| 10 | More than any other film , It Happened One Night had pointed the way forward , but , greatly to the surprise of many critics , problem films kept on appearing . |
| 11 | Perhaps that foul seductress had developed a way of doing it absolutely noiselessly , and without movement . |
| 12 | does n't it come back to the issue of wh who they trustees are and who 's interest , given that trustees are expected to be independent , in the end , who 's interests do the trustees represent , because I 've had experience of working with a pension fund that was in massive surplus and the actualar actuaries refused to agree their final report until that surplus was dealt with , so that the trade unions and the employer through the trustees had to negotiate a way of spending that surplus and er given the pressures of the actuaries to say we were not allowed th the funds to continue unless you deal with this surplus , then it comes back to the issue of how the Board of Trustees is made up and if we accept that there is a degree of representation on that Board , then just exactly how that representation is divided . |
| 13 | It was a curious sensation , diving into water I could n't see , but once Robins had led the way , and was treading water in the pool , I followed without any fear . |
| 14 | This theory had opened the way for Western physiologists to recognise that the anaesthetic effect of acupuncture might at least be possible . |
| 15 | Resisting the urge to rout the pair of them by denying in Italian as fluent as theirs that she was any such thing , Luce kept her face impassive until the other woman had disappeared the way she 'd come . |
| 16 | It was concerned with the story that Archimedes had found a way of discovering if a crown made for King Hiero of Syracuse was in fact of pure gold , as it was supposed to be , or had been adulterated with a cheaper metal . |
| 17 | In some ways , therefore , France had to find a way of forcing the other five members into line behind his conception of an intergovernmental association of European states that would ultimately expand far beyond the Six , to what de Gaulle described as a Europe extending from the Atlantic to the Urals . |
| 18 | Baxter had to find a way to stop the piglets getting out to bully their mother and steal milk from others with younger litters . |
| 19 | In October a Supreme Court ruling had cleared the way for criminal charges to be brought against the company and its officials [ see p. 38532 ] . |
| 20 | He knew he was clever but there was just a slim chance Mr Crangle had found a way to get him , and he did n't want him caught , not for anything in the world . |
| 21 | In November 1990 Japan had opened the way for China 's international rehabilitation by lifting economic sanctions imposed in the aftermath of the crackdown [ see p.37859 ] . |
| 22 | Both the bolt and the lock were now broken beyond repair where the makeshift battering ram had forced a way in . |
| 23 | On his way back to the Incident Room Wycliffe had to weave a way through milling crowds who had deserted the beaches and taken to window shopping . |
| 24 | The way in which the police had cleared a way through to the front door of the building at which Mr Brittan was to speak was particularly controversial . |
| 25 | Dorcas had led the way into the best kitchen , as charming a room as best kitchens used to be in farmhouses which had no parlours — the fire reflected in a bright row of pewter plates and dishes ; the sand-scoured deal tables so clean you longed to stroke them ; the salt-coffer in one chimney corner , and a three-cornered chair in the other , the walls being handsomely tapestried with flitches of bacon , and the ceiling ornamented with pendent hams . |
| 26 | Petrie Cranko adds that , even if Grace had prepared the way , ‘ Herbert told John , who was quite young , to telephone Manning and make the arrangements himself ’ for the lessons . |
| 27 | Davy had found a way to burn a candle in a methane-rich atmosphere . |
| 28 | Fernando had adored the way she dressed in Seville , said she looked like a stunning sexy witch in the black she favoured so much … |
| 29 | Brady stressed that the two countries were special cases ; Egypt , he said , had been the " foundation stone " of the coalition in the Gulf war , while Poland had led the way towards a free market economy in eastern Europe . |
| 30 | Most respondents thought that fundholding had changed the way they worked . |