Example sentences of "have [vb pp] in a way " in BNC.

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1 That 's not something they 're complaining about but their level of awareness has shifted in a way which does influence their dealing
2 In the past I 'd behaved in a way that made it impossible for women to stay with me — for instance , I 'd cut off emotionally , or refuse to have sex , or start seeing other women .
3 If he had not had this picture in his mind , he might inadvertently have written in a way that tried to satisfy different types of individual in the same book .
4 So , in their own interest , the firms should be very careful that the finger is not pointed at them , that they are not seen to have acted in a way that abuses their power and cuts across their independence and integrity . ’
5 You 've guessed in a way have n't you ?
6 Cos if we have n't then all of our assumptions into why we 're doing things like auto-offs and it improves the outgoing costs and then we 've got better reta better information and better screens and all that sort of stuff , I mean it blows every single assumption we 've made in a way .
7 To which Thorkel Fóstri had answered in a way he had not expected .
8 As such , Hitler had become in a way the projection of national aspirations to greatness which reached back into the imperial ambitions of the Wilhelmine era , and which in added strength under Nazism had found an echo among much of the German population , not least as a compensation for a far greyer reality .
9 Lori 's cat-like eyes had narrowed in a way Paige remembered only too well .
10 This suggests that the boundaries of acceptable behaviour lie beyond mere unreasonableness , that the directors would have been liable only if on no tenable view of the facts could their actions have benefited the company : in other words , if they had behaved in a way that was perverse .
11 You 've behaved in a way that will cause a lot of trouble .
12 The decision was , I do not doubt , a thoroughly beneficial decision which has given a sensible ambit to powers which Parliament had conferred in a way which good sense would suggest had left them far too restricted .
13 It had happened in a way he never expected .
14 The return to England had worked in a way he would never have believed it could .
15 In the enclosure afterwards , Bill Templeman had grunted in a way that suggested satisfaction with her .
16 ‘ Well , they 've changed in a way .
17 She laughed shrilly , seeing the way his eyes had darkened in a way that made the breath lodge hard and heavy in her throat .
18 People in her own country who have been injured , terrified and starving to death have behaved in a way that Anna can hardly bring herself to think about .
19 But it 's controlled in a way rather differently to that which it 's controlled now .
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