Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [art] way " in BNC.

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1 Lawler moved away from the wall and immediately stubbed his toe against a heavy cast-iron ornament that had been placed out of the way while the small oval table it normally stood on in the lobby was being repaired .
2 It was also found that while the aircraft was in service a modification to the door mechanism had been carried out in a way which did not comply with the appropriate service bulletin .
3 I 'm sure you 've heard it thousands of times before but I am fed up with the way I look .
4 Lots of people are fed up with the way their lives are headed but they do n't often take the trouble to do anything about it .
5 I think most of the plots have been written , and it a genre that has been written out in the way that the Western was written out .
6 Good-humouredly , bundles are pushed out of the way ; babies and children accommodated .
7 And of course as I say those those were around , but erm the reason that is all white , is that it was erm er when the cattle had been got out of the way , they er whacked a fair amount of of lime wash all over things er to er to kill any any nasties there .
8 You found the dead embedded in the walls of the trenches , heads , legs and half-bodies , just as they had been shovelled out of the way by the picks and shovels of the working party .
9 These admissions are borne out by the way their firms have so avidly bought technology in international marketplaces .
10 There are two problems in analysing tasks : one is to acquire the evidence on which to base the task description , the other is to record what has been found out in a way such that other people , notably the interface designers and the personnel specialists , can use it effectively to assist in their work .
11 Building extends the grammar , by correlation ; but it can also be looked on as a way of extending the vocabulary of the learner .
12 There is no doubt that reform of the common agricultural policy must be carried out in a way which ensures that there is no discrimination against farmers in the United Kingdom .
13 As the cockpit is likely to be used a lot while sailing in the trades and while in harbour , it seems a pity that the tiller should take up such a large amount of space , although when at rest it can be lifted out of the way .
14 However , as the table has to be moved out of the way whenever the patient gets up , it should not be too heavy , or have too many items on it at one time .
15 A safety catch must first be pushed out of the way before the lever can be raised to retract the undercarriage , but there is also a ‘ squat ’ switch arrangement to prevent accidental retraction while the weight of the aircraft is on its wheels .
16 The importance of withdrawal brings us back to the issue of women 's sexual dependency and the fact that some degree of male cooperation was necessary , if only a willingness to be pushed out of the way .
17 He makes it clear in his Report that these ‘ prisoner contracts ’ should not be drawn up in a way which would give the prisoner private rights ( that is the right to damages ) .
18 ‘ If there is a particularly nasty piece of business to be got out of the way , a quick dose of this will bring it to a head quickly .
19 ‘ I know they need to protect their client 's confidentiality but there are certainly many companies I would not consider working for and that ought to be got out of the way early on . ’
20 The first misconception to be got out of the way is that object-oriented Cobol is a new language with a spurious affinity to the ANSI ‘ 85 version .
21 The Bar examinations should , of course , be got out of the way before pupillage commences , for you can not do two things at once .
22 No matter what the feelings of the bereaved , the body has to be got out of the way , buried or burned , and much of the richest information from earlier societies comes from the importance accorded to that act .
23 William Cooper , for example , suggested that for his contemporaries , ‘ the Experimental Novel had got to be brushed out of the way before we could get a proper hearing ’ ( in Rabinovitz 1967 : 7 ) , and C. P. Snow explained in 1958 that :
24 These can be wheeled out of the way when not needed . "
25 Instead of saying that in the absence of a community there can be no rules , we say that what is wrong with the solipsist 's rules is that they can not be set up in the way he pretends , by using a private experience as a sample .
26 Obstacles which prevent young people from using their talents at home must be swept out of the way , he said .
27 A. L. Smith , chairman of the Adult Education Committee at the Ministry of Reconstruction , also warned : ‘ If industrial moral and social side must be taken up in a way that had hardly been experimented upon as yet …
28 Thus the dark matter would be spread around in a way that mimicked but exaggerated the initial fluctuations .
29 ‘ Yes , Philippe thought I should be kept out of the way for a few days … ’
30 This matter must not be singled out in a way that allows it to be used to override National Park objectives .
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