Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] in the way of " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his letter he stated : ’ Such a development will cause me no little difficulty — especially from the SNP ! if you and Douglas Hurd judge that the UK 's overall interests will be best served then I would not want to stand in the way of UKAEA 's involvement . ’ |
| 2 | Viewers saw him explode with fury at militiamen who tried to stand in the way of aid convoys , and shake with emotion at the tragic plight of victims of ethnic cleansing . |
| 3 | They too contain useful material on , for instance , the locations of sites , though individual site licences must be consulted for details of what each is permitted to take in the way of hazardous wastes . |
| 4 | But none of this is the essence of Mrs Thatcher 's problem which is rather that , on the essential questions of economic management , the government gives the impression either of having lost its momentum or of having decided that it must settle for something well short of what Mrs Thatcher seemed to promise in the way of reducing the size of the public sector and also the burden of taxation . |
| 5 | In this case , however , it seemed that the nature of the disease was systematically to destroy those nerve cells essential to the control of sleep , and these unfortunate people probably represent the closest that we can expect to find in the way of a natural experiment on the long-term effects of the denial of sleep . |
| 6 | Protected by the noise , which surely signified the most hideously active stoking the world had ever seen , I began to search about , even daring to light a flambeau , which was all this ground floor seemed to warrant in the way of illumination . |
| 7 | Gauging the kind of people you are going to meet in the way of giving you work . |
| 8 | Nothing and no one is going to get in the way of that dream . |
| 9 | Well that is a very difficult one for anybody who erm has to try and sort out the ideological , tribal , personal rivalries in Uganda and to answer the question of whether these are going to get in the way of some sort of erm coherent government policy and political stability . |
| 10 | And the only thing that seems to stand in the way of doing anything commercially sensible with County Farms is that every time we deal with it , somebody says , ah , but it can only exist as an entity , let's keep it as that , let's pass it on to a trust , let's safeguard it , let's do this and that . |
| 11 | On the dredger what other jobs would you have to do in the way of maintenance , you said you had to repair the buckets . |
| 12 | Let us leave aside , for the moment , the practical difficulties which stand or are believed to stand in the way of direct democracy . |
| 13 | Whichever approach is adopted ( that of the SDPP or of the School Management Task Force ) the head has to decide whether it is practicable in his or her school to assume that the more that teachers are asked to do in the way of auditing , laying plans , implementing them and reviewing them , the more they will understand about the effectiveness of pupils ' learning . |
| 14 | Remarkable special effects tend to get in the way of the story . |
| 15 | As for the supposedly devastating impact of the John Major Diary in Private Eye , of which I am also a co-author , I can only say that , despite the article 's prediction , it did not seem to stand in the way of a gratifying number of people giving him their enthusiastic support on Thursday — including myself . |
| 16 | Nothing has been allowed to stand in the way of the sector 's progress towards profitability . |
| 17 | Well , a little thing like that should not be allowed to stand in the way of such a great man , so Mr Pozsgay now spends one hour a week in the gym . |
| 18 | While these differences had not been allowed to stand in the way of the launch of the EEC and its immediate economic schedule , as the organisation moved on to more of its objectives it was always probable that these differences would gain greater expression . |
| 19 | We felt this should not be allowed to stand in the way of the child protection process , so we tried to put the responsibility where it should properly lie — with the perpetrator . ’ |
| 20 | Different concerns and procedures , and hence unfamiliarity , should not be allowed to stand in the way of understanding . |
| 21 | In the , when we dealt with the matter of children and communion , we based the whole case upon the doctrine that nothing must be allowed to stand in the way of the grace of God being available for all and sundry . |
| 22 | Nothing must be allowed to stand in the way of that . |
| 23 | When we come to deal with infant baptism we take the view that the failure of parents to measure up to certain standards is to be allowed to stand in the way of the grace of God being available for their children . |
| 24 | ‘ It was clear from discussions that the Germans and French will not be allowed to stand in the way of Merseyside 's bid , ’ Mr Stewart said . |
| 25 | For Erlich not much was allowed to get in the way of a job and he supposed that was why he had been sent . |
| 26 | Make your criticisms by all means but I hope that SRN is not joining the worst of our tabloid press where facts are never allowed to get in the way of a good story . |
| 27 | ‘ Mr Beckenham merely wished , if he could , to find and remove that impediment which he believes to stand in the way of a — er — union between you . ’ |