Example sentences of "to have [vb pp] [art] [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | His uncertainty is comprehensible , but he appears to have jumped the wrong way . |
| 2 | Careful attention to engine mounting and sound insulation means that the large engine sounds almost as though it belongs to the car in front — a remote burbling noise that seems to have travelled a long way before it reaches the driver 's ear . |
| 3 | Today the Garrett manufacturing vase shows the company to have come a long way from the first detectors built on the garage bench . |
| 4 | Attempted suicide appears to have become an acceptable way of expressing distress among some people , and has therefore been likened to a fashion . |
| 5 | Japan seemed to have invented a new way to create ultra-cheap money . |
| 6 | The new theorists seem to have gone the same way because of ideological conservatism , or fatalism about what is possible . |
| 7 | I mean , twenty years ago when the volume of work was n't so high as it now , then erm every police officer was doing that , but because time has marched on and problems have become more an more , erm we we tend to have left the traditional way of policing behind . |
| 8 | I appear to have strayed a long way from our original topic . |