Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [prep] the way " in BNC.

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1 Whereas-it was common in their own time for the Teddy Boys to be contrasted with a nostalgically remembered state of pre-existing harmony ‘ twenty years ago ’ or ‘ before the war ’ , given the real horror which greeted their arrival we can perhaps only marvel at the way in which the nostalgic trick of amnesia can now work in the Teds ' favour .
2 I walked down it from the top to bottom and could only marvel at the way it had been constructed .
3 Oh , I better move out the way , I might get squashed .
4 I 'll only get in the way .
5 I thought we 'd better get out the way there !
6 Short-term goals should be achievable in the near future if the vagaries of daily life or training mistakes do n't constantly get in the way .
7 Surere could not disappear in the way that he had without powerful help .
8 You would not think from the way Lavinia lived that there was anything at all ! ’
9 It can be much worse if you are selling as well as buying , for you are then involved in a dreaded thing called ‘ the chain' , which only moves at the pace of the slowest , if it does not disintegrate along the way and put you back to square one .
10 The players who have strolled through our consciousness these past 10 years are mostly with us yet , but whatever they do in the Nineties will not resound in the way that their achievements of the Eighties did .
11 For there is a formula which generates the ‘ deviant ’ continuation from the same early stages ; since both series start in the same way , we can not appeal to the way in which one starts in order to justify our preference for its way of going on .
12 If I do it in private , I may easily fall into the way of doing so in public .
13 When we are hurt by someone 's behaviour , all that is happening is that we are disappointed because they do not behave in the way we expect and the reality conflicts with our ideals .
14 But if The Order of Things is thus concerned to analyse ‘ ensembles of discourses ’ that do not form a totality , it does not focus on the ways in which such forms of knowledges relate to the institutions in which and through which they are produced .
15 He could not plan for the way of the wind , that was luck , but for the rest he had everything at his finger-ends .
16 The language that most of the home computers are used with is BASIC , and although there are a few words in that language which look like English words , like ‘ If ’ and ‘ Let ’ and ‘ Go to ’ and perhaps some others depending on the dialect of BASIC that you have , these words do not work in the way that ordinary English speakers are used to .
17 That they were usually successful indicates that the thieves understood the workings of the colonial bureaucracy , and that government did not function in the way intended by higher officials .
18 Jane often tried to shock her mother into facing some of the world 's uglier problems , but Laura did not react in the way Jane might have expected .
19 Moreover , this limit does not depend on the way in which one tries to measure the position or velocity of the particle , or on the type of particle : Heisenberg 's uncertainty principle is a fundamental , inescapable property of the world .
20 Time , now Henry was forty , did not proceed in the way it had previously done .
21 Local authorities did not respond in the way the government had hoped .
22 The shibboleth of the DM3 standard should not stand in the way of entry at a realistic level , which would probably be at around DM2.80 to the pound .
23 The Transport Secretary , Mr Cecil Parkinson , assured the Commons yesterday that financial considerations would not stand in the way of implementing Sir Anthony Hidden 's 93 recommendations .
24 I can assure the House that finance will not stand in the way of implementation of the report . ’
25 MR CECIL Parkinson , the Transport Secretary , gave an assurance to the Commons yesterday that financial considerations would not stand in the way of implementing recommendations of the Clapham disaster report .
26 But he promised : ‘ I can assure the House that finance will not stand in the way of the implementation of the report . ’
27 Her position as expressed to me was that if the private sector wanted to use its own money for the tunnel then we should certainly not stand in the way .
28 The Government would not stand in the way of a united Ireland provided it could be negotiated by democratic and peaceful means .
29 Provided that this is favourable , we at Barclays believe that for the most part this approach will not stand in the way of efficient securitisation .
30 Manager Joe Kinnear , robbed of the injured John Fashanu , sees Cork as a short-term solution — and Sheffield United 's Dave Bassett would not stand in the way of his great pal .
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