Example sentences of "is [verb] [num] way " in BNC.

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1 In fact , to discuss the reason why his work is the exception rather than the rule in the category of traditional adventure is to find one way to define that category .
2 At the As-Salih Negm Ad-din madrasa and mausoleum urgent action is needed to save the minaret , which has cracked and is sloping one way , while the supporting timber lintel slopes the other .
3 That 's an attitude which may change with time because everyone who goes to Grendon is affected one way or another , staff and prisoners.tomorrow we see how much good has been done when they finish .
4 There 'll be no more doubtful voyages till the thing is settled one way or another .
5 Everyone here is haunted one way or another .
6 Very frequently the full trial never takes place because the dispute is ended one way or another .
7 This can be traced back as far at least as Lord Mansfield , who said : ‘ In all mercantile transactions the great object should be certainty and therefore it 's of more consequence that a rule should be certain , than whether the rule is established one way or the other .
8 It is too pat to say , as did Mansfield , that merchants will chose definiteness over ‘ whether the rule is established one way or the other ’ .
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