Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | then it you know they might have been delayed one way or another . |
| 2 | However , such a scheme would never wash with the public — who wants their water supplies to have been treated this way ? |
| 3 | In any event , they are adjusted one way or the other at the next meter reading . |
| 4 | In about three years ' time all GM 's new cars will have been developed this way . |
| 5 | It had been painted that way to make it stand out — the opposite of camouflage . |
| 6 | I knew that I should not be able to forget them again until the business had been resolved one way or the other . |
| 7 | Well again er , er a three bedroomed house , I would , you see and they were putting one plug in , in , in each , each bedroom and , and two plugs in the main bedroom so they dropped one down altogether and erm , erm in a lounge like this to put two plugs in , sort of one in that corner and one in that corner it 's no good to anybody , it 's , as much as anything else was er , er about placing plugs as well er , if one 's only going to have two plugs well then least one should be able to place them in , in the right positions , er putting them behind doors is , is , is no good at all , a lot of them have been done that way because the it always means flex is going to be draped across the , the door if people are walking in gon na trip over it and erm , they probably got down to now , something er just less than the standard I would think in the , in the last houses they built . |
| 8 | ‘ It has always been done this way ’ is poor reason unless one knows why . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's always been done this way ’ is one of the biggest hurdles to overcome when persuading others . |
| 10 | He may also act on the principle that ‘ things have always been done this way ’ and justify his actions accordingly . |
| 11 | The splendid and spirited pictures in the early printed herbals had been done this way , but as increasingly detailed and accurate illustrations were demanded , plates etched or engraved on copper became the norm . |
| 12 | The authority for doing things this way lies in the fact that they have always been done this way and so questioning is not encouraged . |
| 13 | Should of been done any way . |
| 14 | Nothing has been decided either way . ’ |
| 15 | Not a lot to say Mr Chairman , I think it 's all been said one way or the other . |
| 16 | Many horses are aggressive , but fortunately few are mean , and those that are have most frequently been made that way by people . |
| 17 | Speaker cables are connected either way round to pins 1 and 4 of the speaker connection . |
| 18 | Well they 're they 're made that way are n't they ? |
| 19 | So no matter what they do they 're lumbered all way round are n't they ? |
| 20 | As soon as you 're settled one way or another I 'm out of it . ’ |
| 21 | Its one of those things where you 're fucked either way . ’ |
| 22 | They 're anti-social , handicapped people , and they 're kept that way . |
| 23 | Maggie was tempted to that particular plot , for the story had been told that way so many times , and it is very hard , at moments of crisis , to re-cast the language and the shape of old stories . |
| 24 | It belonged to a huge and beautiful seal who said she just happened to have been drawn that way . |
| 25 | Sometimes a compromise is made in cheaper boots and the tongues are stitched half way . |
| 26 | Some people are born that way |
| 27 | Some living breathing thing that has succumbed to insanity , or been born that way , and which the Beastline and the Cruidlin have taken care of . |
| 28 | The " Big Book " of alcoholics Anonymous describes some unfortunate people as being " naturally incapable of grasping and developing a manner of living which demands rigorous honesty " and says that " they are not at fault ; they seem to have been born that way " . |
| 29 | The preceding sentence , " They are not at fault ; they " seem to have been born that way " is itself an honest acceptance that addictive disease is stronger in some people than in others and that the acceptance of defeat and the wish " to go to any lengths " to get into recovery is ultimately a personal decision for each sufferer and not something that can be imposed by anyone else . |
| 30 | Law by convention is never complete , because new issues constantly arise that have not been settled one way or the other by whatever institutions have conventional authority to decide them . |