Example sentences of "[adv] of the way " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were no trials where there was a steady boyfriend/girlfriend relationship , but an example of a more casual relationship indicates the extremely of the way that a girl could be held to blame for her own murder . |
| 2 | When other girls , jealous of her looks and the doors they opened for her , jealous especially of the way the boys flocked after her , made spiteful remarks , Sally had always been her fiercest champion . |
| 3 | On this ground , Ritschl was critical of much previous theology , and especially of the way the doctrine of the person of Christ had developed in the early centuries . |
| 4 | The direct application of normal sociological categories can take us much of the way in these relatively explicit , but also relatively local and shifting , cases . |
| 5 | By ‘ pure syntactic ambiguity ’ is meant ambiguity in which the variant readings of a sentence involve identical lexical units ; the ambiguity is thus necessarily a matter merely of the way the elements are grouped together . |
| 6 | It should be clear by now that this is n't the fault of desktop publishing , merely of the way in which it has been implemented . |
| 7 | There was a strong babble of concerned voices , a thicket of hands reaching out to steady him , but Li Shai Tung was conscious only of the way his skin stung as if it were stretched too tightly over his bones — how his eyes smarted as if hot water had been thrown into them . |
| 8 | It reminded her forcibly of the way she had felt when she walked into her flat and saw Damian Flint standing beside Jenny , and thought he was her secret lover . |
| 9 | A cable car will take you most of the way . |
| 10 | At that time our position was most of the way across the galaxy from the sector where the planet Vadinamia lay . |
| 11 | He spoke bitterly of the way she left him for another man , a student , when she was 16 then humiliated him by giving intimate details of their affair to the press . |
| 12 | He thought she would certainly have had other lovers , for he knew a little of the way of the Court , and he pushed the thought away . |
| 13 | What Butler says of this account — namely that it ‘ tells us more about the fantasies that a fearful heterosexual culture produces to defend against its own homosexual possibilities , than about lesbian experience itself ’ ( Gender Trouble , 86 — 7 ) — might also be said more generally of the way homosexuality is conceptualized in sexual difference theory . |
| 14 | He talked of his father 's psychic abilities and also of the way in which Alfred Watkins had come to see the ley mark points in terms of the old elements : fire , earth , air and water . |
| 15 | This in his opinion , as well as in the opinion of many others in the literature , has led to the use of inappropriate methods of assessment which have not only distorted the character of what is taught , but also of the way it has been taught . |
| 16 | The fact that shares and deposits of the personal sector feature so largely among building society liabilities is partly the result of their origins but also of the way in which building society interest is taxed . |
| 17 | ‘ And also of the way it is currently collapsing about your ears . ’ |
| 18 | This gross difference is unlikely to be the result solely of the way in which the Directive is implemented in the two countries — other influences are also at work — but the implementation of the Directive in the two countries is certainly different in several respects . |
| 19 | It will not elbow anything else out of the way . |
| 20 | Not elbowing others out of the way . |
| 21 | She got the food well out of the way mid-afternoon , devised a tongue-teasing cocktail , and asked all the people she loved . |
| 22 | I saw one player push fans out of the way at the Australian Open this year . |
| 23 | I found it to be quiet , even when under pressure , and the hooked power pack means that it can be hung conveniently out of the way . |
| 24 | The ‘ tendentious ’ story would soon be out of the way , making possible a return to what Dostoevsky thought was much more important , the Life of a Great Sinner project . |
| 25 | Yesterday 's sudden departure followed what appeared to have been an almost total cave-in by East Germany , anxious to have the matter out of the way by the country 's fortieth anniversary on Saturday . |
| 26 | There was relief that the rise was out of the way and substantial enough to keep further advance at bay . |
| 27 | But ministerial aides said it was better to get the increase out of the way this week , rather than have it happen during the conference . |
| 28 | Obstacles which prevent young people from using their talents at home must be swept out of the way , he said . |
| 29 | Their whole game depends on getting the man on the ground out of the way , if necessary with the boot , if he is so unfortunate as to be between them and the ball . |
| 30 | Having declared London ‘ shabby and out of the way ’ , Hamnett has decamped to show in Paris , leaving a trail of controversy in her wake . |