Example sentences of "be the [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ It 's been the other way around with us . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Had it been the other way round , and I was experiencing an Anglican church for the first time , the shock might have been even greater . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ ’ |
| 8 | I think it should have been the other way round because I was black and blue from head to toe . |
| 9 | She wished with all her heart that the layout could have been the other way round . |
| 10 | Thirty minutes of oratory and twelve of applause ; or had it been the other way round ? |
| 11 | Had the score been the other way round I 'm sure we 'd have been the first match to be shown with umpteen repeats of all the goals . |
| 12 | I know the soldier would have helped Russell had it been the other way around . |
| 13 | 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 ? |
| 14 | Well presumably with , what we 're trying to do is create some sort of alternative family units , we do n't want , although , er , laudable what the youth service does , is , we would n't want , if they do n't want to plugged , clubbable together , if , if , if , if the , the unit could provide that , or provide alternatives to pick up the , the correlation between that and , and ordinary normal family unit , I would hope that that would have been the best way forward , erm , er , because often some youngsters are in this situation because they , they have n't found the , that sort of provision has been helpful for them . |
| 15 | But surely state intervention should have been the best way of achieving both goals ? |
| 16 | SCP does not have a guarantee and , traditionally , " name recognition " has been the principal way of ascertaining the credit risk associated with SCP . |
| 17 | This has always been the only way in which future interests in personal property can be created . |
| 18 | To date , that has been the only way — mass starvation , disease , AIDS , wars and insurrection , enforced transmigration and so on . |
| 19 | This is that the dance might have been the only way , given apine physiology immediately before its evolutionary debut , to solve that problem . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The division may have been the only way that Chlothild was able to ensure that part of Clovis 's realm passed to her offspring . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He 'd covered her over with a coat and taken her few possessions inside , and she 'd slept on ; she 'd been the same way for the last couple of hours of the journey , ever since they 'd made their final stop at a twenty-four hour garage so that he could fill the Zodiac 's tank and buy some tape for a running repair to the headlamp that he 'd broken when , lights doused to escape notice , he 'd clipped the corner of the garage block on their way out of the parking area . |
| 25 | The mammalian process may not have been the safest way to perpetuate the species , but as the emerging man was , by virtue of the very nature of the evolutionary process , developing a body capable of the enjoyment of life to a degree equal to that of all other forms of life in total , he was restricted to what was biologically possible . |
| 26 | Multinational unions are the only way to deal with multinational corporations , it is suggested . |
| 27 | The infirmaries at the plant were shut , Chernobyl 's medical centre was not equipped to take nuclear cases , there were few iodine pills to distribute — although they are the only way of preventing radioactive iodine from accumulating in the thyroid . |
| 28 | Prof Stonham said : ‘ Neural networks are the only way forward for solving real-world problems . |
| 29 | Larger tyres are the only way to increase this . |
| 30 | Although monitored allocations of the kind suggested above are the only way to ensure that library policy is translated into practice , it would be unrealistic to believe that all authorities manage their budgets in this way . |