Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] [art] [adj] way " in BNC.

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1 Since then , all the display vats in the undercover sales area have been treated the same way , turning what could easily be run-of-the-mill fish transit into a feast for the inquiring eye .
2 It is a practical guide for the beginner — or for those who have never been taught the proper way !
3 In the long hours when there were no customers to show she was expected to lend a hand with some of the unskilled tasks — running errands and making tea , unpicking a seam or a hem , even sewing on a button or a hook and eye when she had been taught the proper way to do it .
4 I stared into the mist until my eyes hurt , ahead , off both quarters , in case we 'd been carried the other way , even astern .
5 Most of the bigger hotels in Kos have been built a little way out of the old town and the Bohem is about 15 minutes from the far side of Heaven ( the disco ) !
6 If mass had been negative , space-time would have been curved the other way , like the surface of a saddle .
7 He implied , in other words , that the BFASS had been brought a long way since its restrictive outlook had so divided the 1840 World Convention .
8 On the first day , the match score had been printed the wrong way round after he had beaten Julian Evans 7–5 , 7–5 .
9 Botticelli , works by Piero della Francesca and Andrea Mantegna and the museum 's most famous work , the Profile of a Young Lady by Antonio Pollaiolo , now used as a symbol of the Poldi-Pezzoli and a painting that adorns the face of many Milanese tourist brochures — including one on the city 's museums in which it has been reproduced the wrong way round !
10 If the l.e.d. does not light , it has probably been inserted the wrong way round in the circuit — reverse its leads and try again .
11 He thought that by involving as many as possible in the formal decision-making , he was ensuring their support ; but he forgot that his pleasure in obedience had been learnt the hard way of monastic conversion , and it was not shared by many — not even , when it came to the push , at Bec — much less in the world .
12 The idea of this is to enable the system to detect whether or not the bar code has been read the right way round , or in reverse .
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