Example sentences of "have [been] [art] [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor is it yet the whole truth ; presenting the experiments in the way I have chosen , as I said at the beginning of this chapter , has been a logical way to tell a story , even if a story not yet adequately grounded in theory . |
| 2 | Seagram , last year 's winner , has been a long way behind that excellence this season , as has Bonanza Boy , the 1991 favourite , whose desertion by Peter Scudamore was clearly influenced by the drying conditions . |
| 3 | Because invoice discounting does not involve banks of computers and armies of clerks to handle clients ' sales ledgers it has been a low-cost way of getting into this market . |
| 4 | From the beginning of the reign of King Richard I in 1189 the method was revived and , from that time onwards , has been the accepted way of expressing the year date in civil government and other documents ; the form being , for example , that names of signatories are subscribed or the seal affixed ‘ this first day of July in the Thirtyseventh year of the Reign of Our Sovereign Lady Elizabeth the Second … and in the year of Our Lord One thousand and nine hundred and eighty eight . ’ |
| 5 | To date , that has been the only way — mass starvation , disease , AIDS , wars and insurrection , enforced transmigration and so on . |
| 6 | SCP does not have a guarantee and , traditionally , " name recognition " has been the principal way of ascertaining the credit risk associated with SCP . |
| 7 | Adrian Savage predicts other dangers : ‘ There are enormous problems because middle management has been the traditional way of deciding who is going to be a top manager . |
| 8 | Whitaker also had Gammon entered in the World Cup final but , as his wife Claire said yesterday : ‘ It would have been a long way to go with just one horse . |
| 9 | ‘ That was the turning point — had I gone 2-1 down it would have been a long way back ’ said the Ayrshire man later . |
| 10 | For many , this must have been a therapeutic way back into civilian life . |
| 11 | Although it may have been a convenient way of getting her out of the country , this also indicates that Ælfgifu had previously enjoyed a recognised position . |
| 12 | Here and there they pick up and make use of the old common balks in the former open fields , which must have been the usual way of proceeding from one village to another in open-field country , but for the most part they are drawn straight across the old furlongs and strips regardless of all considerations but that of directness . |
| 13 | Changez 's brother sent him money , too , which was unusual , because it should have been the other way round as Changez made his way in the affluent West , but I was sure celebrations in India at Changez 's departure were still taking place . |
| 14 | I think it should have been the other way round because I was black and blue from head to toe . |
| 15 | She wished with all her heart that the layout could have been the other way round . |
| 16 | No , whoops , I might have put one on top of the other when it should have been the other way round , so always have this check , er does the answer look , I mean , no , you ca n't always tell , but sometimes you can , sometimes you can think well those two are about the same price per gram , are n't they ? |
| 17 | This is that the dance might have been the only way , given apine physiology immediately before its evolutionary debut , to solve that problem . |
| 18 | That style may have been the only way round a corner in the days of slippy tyres , dodgy suspension and flexible chassis but modern GP machines permit a faster , more aggressive route through the turn . |
| 19 | The division may have been the only way that Chlothild was able to ensure that part of Clovis 's realm passed to her offspring . |
| 20 | ‘ En souvenir de ’ ( ‘ in memory of ’ ) might seem to imply that Jenny and Mme Vidal were dead , but a collection of jolly harpsichord pieces would have been an odd way to memorialize them . |
| 21 | In the 30-plus years since I started my CIT life as a student , I have found the many local and national meetings and lectures to have been a valuable way of giving and receiving information and help . |
| 22 | He had boxed her into a corner there had been no other way out of . |
| 23 | In the fifteenth century it had been a practical way of making agriculture more profitable , in the sixteenth it was more likely to create a vagrancy problem as men were dispossessed from the land , and this indeed was a social issue which came to the forefront of public attention in the Tudor period . |
| 24 | I knew if it had been the other way round , if it was Robert I had to ask , he would have said , ‘ On yer bike . ’ ’ |
| 25 | Isobel began to feel that her life had been the wrong way round , that Africa had been no training at all , with its comparatively easy , impersonal requirement of Christian love , for these savagely difficult demands for daughterly love . |
| 26 | The Conservatives have been a long way ahead of Labour not just in seats ( an arbitrary effect of the electoral system ) but also in votes . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's been the other way around with us . |
| 28 | That 's why I crawl down holes and chuck myself off cliffs and ride the bike — it 's been the only way I could feel alive , but since I met you I 've come alive in other ways , ways I 'd forgotten long ago . |