Example sentences of "get [prep] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is quite possible that a number of other political changes would have got under way more recently were it not for the direct intervention of Pope John Paul II and the Vatican . |
| 2 | Two years previously , a campaign to write into the Irish constitution the existing legislation criminalizing abortion had got under way under the name of the Pro-Life Amendment Campaign . |
| 3 | Without it , when he was first called , God 's new plans for the redemption of his world would not have got under way at all . |
| 4 | The campaign was got under way on 25 November when Lord Samuel delivered an emotional appeal to the British public to open their homes to refugee children . |
| 5 | Once self-replication had got under way molecules could pile on other more complex molecules in a loose association . |
| 6 | They represented the spectrum of Christian conviction , East and West — though there was no one from the Eastern Orthodox Churches when it opened , and two Russian Orthodox clergy came shortly after the Council had got under way . |
| 7 | For the literate group of women who might be expected to read magazines , this was in fact a transitional period : freed to a greater extent than ever before from the shadow of death , this was not yet the time of the educated lay interest in infant psychology which was soon to be aroused by Montessori , Froebel , Susan Isaacs and the Freudians generally ; nor had the hygienist movement yet got under way . |
| 8 | With Senator McCarthy 's campaign against treason in the State Department having just got under way this may hardly have been the best time for dispassionate analysis although , if it is not too academic a point , one can not help comparing these propositions with an earlier assessment ( 13 October 1948 ) . |
| 9 | The dried egg and fried bread were less attractive than ever and the grey day had hardly got under way before I was approaching the forbidding facade of Regent Lodge . |
| 10 | Its work , once it had got under way , was slowed and complicated by disputes of this kind between the French and Spanish and French and imperial representatives , while the Venetian one , Contarini , threatened to withdraw altogether from the negotiations unless the comte d'Avaux , the leader of the French delegation , treated him on a basis of complete equality . |
| 11 | Before the reference has got under way , the most likely procedure will be the construction summons . |
| 12 | Construction issues can still be raised before the reference has got under way : 8.17.1 and 11.2 . |
| 13 | A £1.15m project has got under way to improve the drainage system and prevent homes in the Danesbury Drive area of York from flooding after heavy rain . |
| 14 | The election campaign has only just got under way , and Mr Le Pen may yet reclaim the limelight . |
| 15 | The game about to be got under way here , it 's the second time of course that we 've had the taste of European football in just er inside a few weeks here at Lane , a very poor night for weather , you who 've not ventured out well , I think we understand that er because er as we say , it 's not a night when you would turn the dog out . |
| 16 | Cricket , and the afternoon session in the fourth Test Match between England and the West Indies has just got under way in Barbados . |
| 17 | From this FitzGerald could be in little doubt as to the likely course the bishops would take once a referendum campaign got under way . |
| 18 | It took a further eight years before classes got under way , and then only in medicine , and it was not till well into the 1850s that it became really established . |
| 19 | In a statement circulated to delegates yesterday — as the full debate on the proposed ban got under way — the Hong Kong government said that , while new ivory should be banned from trade , ‘ properly controlled trading of legally-acquired and legally-held ivory should be allowed to continue ’ . |
| 20 | The RSM brought everyone to attention , ‘ By the right , quick march , ’ barked the Officer and we were off to a jaunty 6–8 time , Blue Bonnets Over the Border , as I got under way . |
| 21 | The racial mixture was soon to be sharpened , as the mid-century railway boom got under way , by new waves of immigrants from Ireland , the Forest of Dean , Herefordshire , and Somerset , but already the social , political , and religious pattern of the new South Wales and the eastern valleys of Monmouthshire had been firmly set for another century . |
| 22 | We had notice of Sarah 's barrenness even before it properly got under way ( 11.30 ) . |
| 23 | As it got under way it began to develop ( understandably , I felt ) into a tirade in favour of abortion . |
| 24 | Once I 'd mastered a none-too-straightforward control panel , which looks rather like those muticoloured ever-flickering computers you find on the dashboard of executive cars , my test run got under way . |
| 25 | As has become the tradition , the tournament got under way when Gene Sarazen , 90 earlier this year , struck the opening drive . |
| 26 | A THREE-MONTH campaign for the Labour leadership got under way last night when both Mr John Smith and Mr Bryan Gould formally declared their candidacy and a compromise was reached over the timing of the election . |
| 27 | As the Victorian age got under way , ever more ingenious technologies aided the steady advance of drainage . |
| 28 | The fete got under way . |
| 29 | When commercial record-making got under way , deceptions became more tortuous . |
| 30 | As 1944 got under way , rumours of the imminence of an Allied invasion of Europe grew . |