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 . |