Example sentences of "[prep] the way to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Are they saying that housewives are less able to understand and resist the dangers than other workers , or that all oppressed workers should renounce pay as the way to liberation ? |
| 2 | The land rises most of the way to Aberangell , so the railway was well below us and usually visible . |
| 3 | The rate at which it does this is measured as a " time constant " — defined as the time it takes for the output to return 63 per cent of the way to baseline , after a shift in input voltage level . |
| 4 | Armed with this treat , I ran most of the way to Bugmore , where Dad would stop work , off we would go to the shed , sit on the upturned wooden wheelbarrow and thoroughly enjoy the snack . |
| 5 | AN OPERATION to move 250 pensioners from eight council care homes which are closing down is one third of the way to completion . |
| 6 | A single line railway ran from St George 's to Kelly 's Island , the full length of the colony , and many Bermudians brought their bicycles part of the way to town on the flat-cars attached to the train for that purpose . |
| 7 | It lies engulfed amid the new colonies that have recently sprung up along the way to Mehrauli , a small enclave of mud-walled , flat-roofed village life besieged by a ring of high-rise apartments . |
| 8 | On the way to Mrs Zamzam 's land , I looked across the same Lebanese border from the Israeli side and could actually make out in the far distance Mrs Zamzam 's camp at Rashidiyeh inside Lebanon . |
| 9 | The personification furnishes not only a necessary step on the way to judgments about particular people , but a plateau we can occupy to consider these judgments . |
| 10 | There is the Encomiast 's eye-witness account of his lavish gifts to the monasteries and poor of St Omer when on the way to Rome , and of the tears and breast-beating which accompanied them . |
| 11 | ‘ Besides , now that I do not have to stop on the way to Paris for lunch I can go later . |
| 12 | Murray also arranged for the players to watch a video of the game on the coach on the way to Stockport . |
| 13 | packing Friday on the way to mum Peter 's mum she told them she 's just in so much pain , she wants it doing so he 's gon na get in , I said , it 's poss that she 'll be in six days and probably off a few weeks after when she gets home it 's operation on her neck and shoulder they 're going to release the nerve they reckon it 's it 's a she told them and do what they will with it . |
| 14 | He stayed for five years — photographing cars and production lines — before being dismissed for habitual lateness ( he had dallied once too often taking pictures on the way to work ) . |
| 15 | On the way to work , we bump into Milena . |
| 16 | but she saw him on the way to work in town , had a bloody great barney with him on the market place on the way to work , just say , she was in there about ten minutes and burst into tears |
| 17 | it 's in the paper cos , a fellow on the way to work said it was and she , Graham got married in the May and er they get married in Cyprus but |
| 18 | going on the way to work . |
| 19 | At the pier , shops sell batiks and woollens to the ferry travellers : families with packed cars and roof-racks ; men with sheepdogs on the way to trials at Mallaig ; bikers on some kind of round robin according to their luggage tags — ‘ Genève-Edinburgh-Brugge-Genève ’ . |
| 20 | Perhaps not last Sunday , and perhaps not on the way to Liam Shakespeare 's front door , but it had happened . |
| 21 | Yeah , Dan 's car broke down on the way to Birmingham you know . |
| 22 | It was converted from a nobleman 's residence situated about two and a half miles north-east of San Gimignano on the way to Certaldo , is surrounded by its own gardens and is tastefully appointed in every aspect . |
| 23 | He died on the way to Stobhill Hospital . |
| 24 | Descriptions of offices , studios and wind tunnels , and an account of getting lost in Luton on the way to Vauxhall headquarters because of roadworks on the M1 , are no substitute . |
| 25 | Each of the schools we visited pursued the matter differently , and in some the quality of relationships established with parents and the community was impressive , the more so for being the result of long and painstaking work by heads and teachers , often encountering frustrations and setbacks on the way to success . |
| 26 | After signing the accord , the Czechoslovak Prime Minister , Marian Calfa said it was a milestone on the way to Czechoslovakia becoming a full EC member , for which he would now press . |
| 27 | On the way to Lass Lane they told him their names and he said his was Timothy Gedge . |
| 28 | She knots up some girdle-cakes ( lepëshki ) in a kerchief and plunges through the thick spring mud of the village track to the river Iput' near by where she catches one of several small boats plying to Volga , a market town on the way to Roslavl' . |
| 29 | That 's sa surprise cos I was on the way to Hull oh yes ! |
| 30 | ‘ I told you , Harvey , the package of eggs was stolen from my baggage on the way to London Airport . ’ |