Example sentences of "[be] [verb] the way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such developments are paving the way to rapprochement between conventional and complementary medicine . |
| 2 | Indeed , if it were to be as firmly and clearly drawn as some of our mentors would wish , I can not help feeling that a number of leading cases in your Lordships ' House would never have been decided the way they were . |
| 3 | Could I just have your attention , it 's just the end , for practice , for summary , you need to be very aware of why certain pieces of writing are written the way they are . |
| 4 | When it comes down to it , if we encourage this generation of kids to chill out then maybe we 're leading the way — in a few years ’ time , the world will be a better place to live in . |
| 5 | So we 're extending the way that information systems can be used by users who traditionally have not been en empowered or enabled to get at that information . |
| 6 | So they 're changing the way |
| 7 | Cos if you 're thinking the way they carry the baby it 's an old woman 's tale I think , I never used to think |
| 8 | They 're clearing the way for the new 600 series and we 're seeing the first evidence of the Japanese working practises . |
| 9 | We are overhauling the ways in which family matters are handled in our courts . |
| 10 | We are told the way in which MPs have voted on certain controversial cross-party issues such as abortion and hanging ; we are given the names of those to whom we must say farewell and those we should welcome , but no details whatsoever as to the make up the corps of MPs ' secretaries , that body of sirens from whom the more susceptible among us should be protected . |
| 11 | By and large it is the large brewers , which include Allied , Bass and Whitbread , who are leading the way in refurbishment and catering , and ownership of these retail outlets is at a premium . |
| 12 | Despite a slump in the company 's margins , Bear Stearns & Co. raised its investment rating of Apple Computer Inc to ‘ strong buy ’ from ‘ buy ’ following the company 's fiscal second-quarter earnings report — figures , page five : analyst Andy Neff says he made the change because concern about Apple 's results was overdone ; commenting on the figures , Apple says it expects to resume growth — in earnings , revenue , unit sales , and market share — in the second half of its fiscal year , saying that the fall in profit was down to pricing pressures , the costs of new product launches , and a constraint in supplies needed for manufacturing , the latter two drains being short-term ; he noted that despite supply constraints , second quarter unit growth was up over 70% in its Powerbook notebook computers , while total Macintosh unit growth was up over 385 ; the European market continues to be slow , but sales in Japan are leading the way for continued growth of the Apple Pacific business unit ; gross margin was 38.5% of net sales in the second quarter of fiscal 1993 , down from 44.0% a year ago . |
| 13 | I believe that , in regard to care in the community , we in Wales are leading the way . |
| 14 | Will he also confirm that we are leading the way in many training schemes and that there is no doubt that housing — Will my right hon. and learned Friend confirm that there is no doubt that , in housing and in many other matters , the north-west of England is showing the way and will continue to show the way ? |
| 15 | The Didcot-based Williams team are leading the way for this Sunday 's French Grand Prix … in the first qualifying session Nigel Mansell was half a second faster than his team mate Riccardo Patrese and almost TWO seconds quicker than Ayrton Senna . |
| 16 | 2 clubs are leading the way ; the Oxford Sharks and the Swindon Bulldogs , playing here in the dark shorts . |
| 17 | So far we have been describing the ways in which the processes of socialisation and internalisation come to bind societies together and reproduce practices and institutions . |
| 18 | The overwhelming impression of the participants is that they are investigating the way things are . |
| 19 | I am researching the way that dogs behave with their possessions . |
| 20 | In the past , her pupils would have been shown the way to work this out , given the formula to memorise , and in many cases they would have forgotten it . |
| 21 | AMBULANCE managers are rethinking the way they deal with emergency patients in the hope of saving more lives . |
| 22 | Much more to the point , lawyers are always aware that a big aircraft accident inquiry is the preliminary to much subsequent civil litigation , and that if they can persuade the court to a point of view favourable to their client they can be paving the way to considerable financial benefit at a later stage . |
| 23 | In fact , she seemed to be paving the way for positive alienation . |
| 24 | Mr Major appeared to be paving the way yesterday when he said : ‘ Many people in the United States have long historic connections with Ireland . |
| 25 | Contained within the breccias are the fossilized bones of many animals that lived in this part of Britain during the middle Pleistocene , and we will be describing the way in which the fossil bones of the smaller animals came to be deposited . |
| 26 | I do n't , I 'm going the wrong way , I 'm going the way when I go with Jim the quick way |
| 27 | The largest companies appear to be leading the way . |
| 28 | Scientists at the centre will be leading the way in computer and television technology . |
| 29 | By all the rules of the market , Hewlett-Packard Co 's HP 3000 business computer family should be going the way of the Wang Laboratories Inc VS and the Nixdorf Computer AG 8870 , but in defiance of crude market logic , the machine is going from strength to strength , bolstered by the company 's relaxed approach to migration to Unix : because HP 3000 users know they can relatively painlessly convert to Unix any time they choose , the majority are happy to stay right where they are , and the company claims that its high-end HP 3000 system business actually grew more than 50% last year , and the much-derided Posix interface is actually enabling it to pick up applications from Unix . |
| 30 | In this Chapter we shall be considering the ways in which the microprocessor can be involved in control of the stepping motor . |