Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [vb pp] [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | London 's Docklands over the centuries has seen many ways of life come and go , but one has remained ; that of pests . |
| 2 | It led through still more lofty halls and winding corridors quite big enough for a dragon ( and dragons had come this way once , it seemed ; there was a room lull of rotting harness , dragon-sized , and another room containing plate and chain mail big enough for elephants ) . |
| 3 | Horses with names meaningful to English ears have passed this way : Lance Corporal , Red Indian , King Midas and now the stallion I had delivered , Pink Tank . |
| 4 | Management has recognised this and over recent decades has tried various ways to improve this front line contact . |
| 5 | So many refugees had passed that way already , and the steamers were dirty with no accommodation , so that again we slept side by side on the decks , and ate cold and rather horrible curry and rice on filthy plates . |
| 6 | Parents have found many ways to mark a new arrival — planting a tree , designing a certificate or making a book to give to the child when older . |
| 7 | Debt-for-equity swaps have been used before in a number of South American countries , including Argentina , as banks have sought different ways of tackling the region 's chronic debt problem . |
| 8 | Investment managers have invented various ways of making this kind of currency investment . |
| 9 | Studies have found various ways a husband 's income is used by the family . |
| 10 | Many of the newer bodies have been formed specifically to develop and implement occupational standards for their sector and , as might be expected , these bodies have established different ways of undertaking this key task . |
| 11 | Some of the most famous forensic scientists have started that way , he said . |
| 12 | The police had blocked this way and the marchers set off along Duke Street , trying to find another way onto the bridge . |
| 13 | In Russia English merchants had gone some way south of Moscow , and trade was also being carried on in the Eastern Mediterranean or Levant . |
| 14 | Let others have felt this way , let them feel it now ; it would never be exactly like this , never be identical . |
| 15 | No horses had passed that way . |
| 16 | The importance of the great national repositories of original documents was stressed in Chapter 5 , and subsequent chapters have indicated many ways in which their resources may be used by local researchers . |
| 17 | Through the ages women have explored various ways of enhancing their bosoms . |
| 18 | In fact , they travel far better in water , and animals of ponds , lakes , rivers and seas have evolved ingenious ways of utilising them . |
| 19 | Unscrupulous employers have found new ways of sidestepping European social directives which depend on having union representatives in the workplace . |
| 20 | The celebrities had found other ways to occupy their Friday evenings . |
| 21 | The official unemployment total of two two million six hundred and four thousand one hundred is more than a million short of the real figure because the tories have found thirty ways not to count jobless people . |