Example sentences of "way [prep] a " in BNC.
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1 | I learned about trailer driving the hard way during a competition retrieve , when an enthusiastic crew member took us off the road with an Eagle two-seater in the trailer . |
2 | One way for a publisher to finance the publication of an art book is to act with other publishers who will share costs ; an alternative is to find a subsidy . |
3 | Given the propensity of many modern breweries and their designers to impose an overall , single-period ‘ look ’ , however , the Georgian fabric that does exist is often the first thing to be swept away — to make way for a sham-Victorian world of clumsy stained glass and ugly stained hardwood . |
4 | A police search is under way for a businessman accused of attempting to export a military camera to the Soviet Union after he failed to appear for committal proceedings at Rugby Magistrates Court . |
5 | The ruling in Strasbourg yesterday that the complaints are admissible clears the way for a future hearing before the European Court of Human Rights in up to two years ' time . |
6 | Some senior party sources believe that a ‘ kamikaze ’ candidate could attract as many as 70 votes from disaffected MPs — paving the way for a fully-fledged contest next year . |
7 | The protest campaign was sparked by a council decision earlier this year to fell the trees — 10 beech , one scots pine and one yew — to make way for a road improvement scheme said to be needed for a new supermarket . |
8 | At the age of 76 and realising that the lifetime of the next Parliament would take him into his eighties , he has decided to make way for a younger man . |
9 | Dawson 's first book , The Age of the Gods ( 1928 ) , subtitled A Study in the Origins of Culture in Prehistoric Europe and the Ancient East , began by noting that ‘ During the last thirty years the great development of archaeological and anthropological studies has prepared the way for a new conception of history . ’ |
10 | The earlier chapters of this book have shown how events and a growing sense of disillusion with many old policies paved the way for a new approach . |
11 | As tribal culture weakens , status and power will come to be less connected with an outward demonstration of wealth , and this may pave the way for a more powerful generation of entrepreneurs as specific commercial objectives come to supersede those of status . |
12 | This has cleared the way for a re-appraisal of aid policies . |
13 | This downfall opens the way for a new social system in both cases . |
14 | for all that he has no words he then asks in the most eloquent and elegant way for a tip . |
15 | The whole lot was to come down and make way for a million square feet of office space , and the company developing the site had held a competition to find a master-planner . |
16 | Clayton 's film cleared the way for a cycle of films with proletarian heroes who , for all their bluster , see their dreams shrivel in melancholy and their little rebellions crash to the ground . |
17 | Your alloted space in purgatory is reserved the moment you decide , for whatever reason , that a bottle of excellent but inexpensive champagne ( Safeway £7.49 ) must make way for a grander counterpart like Bollinger ‘ 83 ( Sainsbury 's £20.45 ) or , if the devil has really got to you , Dom Perignon ‘ 82 ( £44.99 at Tesco ) . |
18 | Krenz 's programme of measures may have to make way for a more revolutionary alternative — and Krenz too . |
19 | The Frankfurt meeting of officials is expected to prepare the way for a full meeting of the Interim Committee of Finance Ministers at IMF headquarters in Washington in January . |
20 | The old thatched tythe barn which stood end on to Silver Lane just below Manor Farm has now made way for a clutch of modern houses . |
21 | By this time the tiny west wing of the villa had been removed to make way for a gigantic conservatory , which has since disappeared . |
22 | Thus Witold Gombrowicz 's apparently anti-political call for ‘ an elusive man who is a play of contradictions ’ is really a fierce rebuke to the totalitarian preference for deathly form over vital chaos ; and the absurdist satire on display in Yuz Aleshkovsky 's ‘ Kangaroo ’ , whose protagonist eventually comes to believe the KGB 's charge that he sodomised a marsupial in the Moscow Zoo ‘ on a night between July 14th 1789 , and January 9th 1905 ’ ( note the dates ) , is ‘ the only way for a free mind to cope … an abuse of official language that will overpower it and thus defeat it . ’ |
23 | By adopting the third directive on life assurance , the European Commission cleared the way for a single European insurance market . |
24 | Some people think the parliamentary election should be brought forward from 1993 , to give the government legitimacy and to open the way for a new president — Mr Lech Walesa ? — in place of General Jaruzelski . |
25 | By the same token , the easiest way for a big studio to commit suicide is to sell its library — as MGM has . |
26 | Research by David Ellwood , at Harvard University , shows that the surest way for a woman to escape poverty , and get off welfare , is not to work but to get married . |
27 | In the event , the most important repercussion of the appointment was to deprive Kent of the championship , for it proved such a traumatic time for Cowdrey that his team lost their way for a few weeks , and missed the title by just one agonizing point . |
28 | His outburst , it would seem , was the culmination of much anger at press criticism of West Indian bowling , both the excessive use of bouncers and the slow over rate ; but it was an astonishing way for a Test captain to behave , and he apologized to his team for not leading them out . |
29 | He pleaded , hardly sounding like the tough guy the public identified him with , ‘ Surely there must be some way for a person falsely accused of disloyalty to clear his name once and for all ? |
30 | Some people manage to live in this virtuous way for a short time ; the very rare person for years . |