Example sentences of "[vb infin] the way to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does he know the way to J. Pringle & Sons ? |
| 2 | Once Clive was in the hypnotic state on this occasion , I asked him to visualize going up to someone he knew slightly , taking a few deep breaths and then asking them a simple question — ‘ Could you please tell me the time ? ’ or ‘ Do you know the way to such-and-such a street ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ You do n't know the way to town . ’ |
| 4 | " I do n't know the way to the seneschal 's office ! |
| 5 | ‘ Do you know the way to Birkleigh ? ’ |
| 6 | A line extended from Alnitak , the uppermost star of the Belt , through Saiph ( Kappa Orionis ) will show the way to Canopus in Carina , which is much the brightest of all the stars apart from Sirius . |
| 7 | Although Lagrange seemed to cherish hopes that his work would show the way to the solution of the general quintic the results obtained indicated a distinct possibility that there might be no corresponding formula in the case of equations of degree greater than 4 , and a supposed proof of this was given by Ruffini in 1799 . |
| 8 | The agreements on protecting the ozone layer are often pushed forward as pioneering achievements which will ease the way to an atmospheric convention and protocols dealing with carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases . |
| 9 | In Britain , two months earlier , the government had decided in a last-minute about-turn that its nuclear power stations , once the shining lamps that would light the way to the sustainably developed future , were unsaleable and so would be withdrawn from privatization of the electricity industry . |
| 10 | Current British circumstances are unusual in that the reforms aimed at are highly ambitious , yet lack obvious external impetus of the sort which would clear the way to radical change . |
| 11 | In advance of the operation , the Americans had assumed that Giraud 's prestige in French North Africa would clear the way to a rapid ceasefire . |
| 12 | There was nothing for it , Mungo thought , but to follow Vic as often as possible , in the hope that he would lead the way to a solution . |
| 13 | His extreme Little-Englandism , however , was linked to World Socialism , and he argued that a truly Socialist independent England would lead the way to a truly Socialist world , independent alike of capitalism and Celtic individualism . |
| 14 | And that 's a serious side to cos if we in Council do n't lead the way to the way that we 're trying through the Euro Cities by offering what 's good in to Europe , developing those links so that we can share them with the community here and other cultural links , then we 're doing a dis- service . |
| 15 | Liverpool drivers will lead the way to a weekend festival celebrating the Mini in the Lake District next week . |
| 16 | But even though justification by hindsight is easier than discovery , some people are still not rationally able to see the truth of the Gospels for themselves ; even though the Bible does point the way to moral knowledge , most people ‘ can not know , and therefore they must believe ’ . |
| 17 | As is already happening in electrochemical technology , the provision of product packages , backed by technical expertise and know-how , could well point the way to the future . |
| 18 | Jalal Talabani , secretary-general of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan , believes that the creation of an opposition coalition should open the way to outside help . |
| 19 | This does not gainsay the fundamental proposition that it is every citizen 's duty to retain self-control — at least to the extent of not violating other people 's interests — but it does open the way to a manslaughter verdict and to sentences which are rarely longer than eight years ' imprisonment ( less than half as long as the time served by many convicted of murder ) and may be considerably shorter . |
| 20 | PEOPLE in favour of euthanasia will soon ask Parliament to agree a Bill that could open the way to legalised ‘ Mercy Killing ’ . |
| 21 | Without both , divide-and-rule tactics will open the way to ranking oppressions and putting the groups against each other . |
| 22 | The agreement could open the way to $1 billion in new loans from the IMF . |
| 23 | Second , how liberal Catholics pooh-poohed when Paul VI said that the widespread use of contraceptives ‘ could open the way to marital infidelity and a general lowering of standards ’ ( Humanae Vitae 17 ) . |
| 24 | The removal of Carrick , and a number of other officers , clearly would open the way to promotion for others , but the charge that Carrick had claimed in an official record to have been in places which he had not in fact visited was not denied by the complainant . |
| 25 | Loyal and moderate as the noble constitutionalists seemed , any concessions to them might open the way to federalism , separatism and even more dangerous tendencies . |
| 26 | Its advantage was that it worked , in that it gave some hope of understanding why chemical compounds behave as they do ; and it did open the way to symbolizing chemical reactions . |
| 27 | President Assad had been the first Arab leader to criticize the Iraqi invasion , but there was considerable apprehension in the West that Saddam Hussein 's emergence as a focus of anti-Western Arab radicalism might open the way to a rapprochement between Iraq and Syria . |
| 28 | The evident SOC retreat from the more moderate stance of December was thought to be due to the influence of a hardline faction which feared that the peace plan would open the way to systematic Khmer Rouge infiltration under unwitting UN protection . |
| 29 | With the formulation by Schrödinger in 1925 of the wave equation for an electron , it was clear that a solution to it could pave the way to a direct quantitative predictive method for most , if not all , chemical phenomena by using the values of a small number of physical constants . |
| 30 | The extension of this waiver for another year made immediately available US$600 million in US credits and loan guarantees and , in the longer term , could pave the way to permanent MFN status for the Soviet Union . |