Example sentences of "way to [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister spoke in June last year , the UNHCR was well on the way to meeting the humanitarian needs of the Kurdish people . |
| 2 | The Worcestershire man had barely 40 overs under his belt in six Tests before this one , but here he was wheeling away in a marathon spell stretching into the fourth day , and with Tufnell on the way to completing the most overs ever bowled by one man in a first-class innings in New Zealand , the Kiwi machine was forced to change down a gear or two . |
| 3 | In masochism the energy is directed on to the ego , not an object , where the ego is itself libidinized as in narcissism. rn this way Freud had moved some way to producing a new synthesis of the three dichotomies : ego instincts , and sexual instincts ; ego and object choices within one set of instincts only , the sexual instincts ; and , finally , the life instincts ( sexual ) and the death instincts . |
| 4 | He believes that C&P is well on the way to achieving a better balance . |
| 5 | Practical PC brings you three state of the art computer cards that will get you well on the way to building a multi media computer . |
| 6 | If you could see your way to writing the first chapters of an autobiography I would be honoured to read it and give you my thoughts on the subject . |
| 7 | The prototype , Skyship 500 ( New Scientist , 2 September , p 616 ) is well on the way to getting a full certificate of airworthiness , and was demonstrated at this year 's Farnborough airshow . |
| 8 | Vice-president MacFarlane will have plenty on his plate now as he tries to pull all the ideas together into the first draft paper on the way to creating the eventual plan for formal consideration in November . |
| 9 | If you control the first link in the food chain — the seed — you are well on the way to controlling the whole food chain . |
| 10 | The impression is very strong that Raedwald was dead by now and Eadwine well on his way to establishing a dominant position amongst the Angles . |
| 11 | I mean if it were the case that we got on the way to establishing an appropriate atmosphere in the colleges , one where women felt comfortable and where they felt they could get the most from their educational experience , I think that would have profound impact on people 's later lives . |
| 12 | In one episode he rants for about ten minutes about the Bayern Munchen team goostepping round the pitch after cheating their way to winning the European Cup Final in ‘ 75 . |
| 13 | Not only does Italy-Brazil represent many people 's ideal coupling for next summer 's World Cup final in Rome but this afternoon 's game also marks the first occasion the two countries have met since that afternoon seven years ago in Spain when the Italians dismissed Falcao , Zico , Junior et al , 3-2 on their way to winning the 1982 World Cup . |
| 14 | But even if the relative lack of profitable investment opportunities goes some way to explaining the poor investment rate , then if US business had felt itself under more pressure , it might have made greater efforts to improve technology . |
| 15 | The letter goes some way to explaining the 14 months delay between June 1981 , when harmful side-effects from Opren were first reported to an international conference , and August 1982 when the drug was withdrawn . |
| 16 | The experimental rig that will be built at the UKAEA 's Harwell base is , ironically , called ACHILLES , The NII agrees that recent work in Canada , West Germany and the United States has gone some way to showing the likely scale of the ballooning effect . |
| 17 | Once you uncover the cause , the theory goes that you are half way to solving the particular problem that concerns you . |
| 18 | It may be argued that , in 1986 , the Government rejected the idea of abandoning the adjudicatory role of the prison visitors board , which was part of the Prior recommendations , so , as they had gone some way to changing the internal discipline regime , they might reasonably look again at Prior . |
| 19 | With the kind assistance of the local estate agencies I have gone some way to tracing the subsequent history of the two properties owned by the above company . |
| 20 | If you know what your aims are ; if you make sure that you know how to memorise and recall ; if your reviews are effective , with good concentration , you may feel yourself well on the way to becoming a successful student with a bright future . |
| 21 | At any rate , non-violence was on its way to becoming a political objective , not merely a moral one . |
| 22 | Berkshire 's outlet was Reading , situated on the Kennet just above its confluence with the Thames , and on the way to becoming a major river-port , forwarding malt and meal to London , to which Great Marlow shipped Chiltern corn brought down from High Wycombe . |
| 23 | At the end of the nineteenth century the verdict of the legal philosopher Dicey was that laissez-faire had given way to collectivism ; that government had begun to assume a role in society that had taken Britain well on the way to becoming a socialist state . |
| 24 | But in England the financial department was on the way to becoming a formal institution . |
| 25 | Clearly Romania was well on its way to becoming an economic super-success and anyone with funds to spare was well advised to lend them to Ceauşescu . |
| 26 | At its conference in Brighton , the Labour Party showed that it is on the way to becoming an electable party . |
| 27 | THE Texas billionaire H Ross Perot is well on his way to becoming an independent candidate for president in all 50 states , thanks to Americans disillusioned with their choice of official party candidates this year . |
| 28 | The development of its taste for small water creatures as a main ingredient in its omnivorous diet may be similar to the trend that occurred in our own ancient ancestors during the intermediate stage on the way to becoming the first hunting primates . |
| 29 | With a major breakthrough in America beckoning , they look well on the way to becoming the first stadium techno band . |
| 30 | The Labor leader 's re-election ‘ has guaranteed that the nation is on the way to becoming the Federal Republic of Australia under a new flag , ’ the newspaper said . |