Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [prep] [art] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | His beard and teeth got in the way . |
| 2 | In any case other activities got in the way of getting to the Sunday services , but I managed the rehearsals and some weekday 5pm services . |
| 3 | ‘ The recession got in the way . |
| 4 | Her heart beat in a way she had not been conscious of it beating for many a month and she felt near to tears . |
| 5 | It seemed a brusque and strange reply , but Downes seemed in no way disconcerted . |
| 6 | The Garden Festival programme began as a way of throwing flowers at rioters in Toxteth . |
| 7 | But he meant well , and the place and his practice thrived in the way that life tends to in India . |
| 8 | Thomas Edwards suggested that the fault lay in the way the book was assembled . |
| 9 | The result went against the way in which I cast my vote . |
| 10 | Then , as his eyes fell to the way she was cradling one hand in the other , he added , frowning , ‘ You 're hurt . ’ |
| 11 | Arsenal won by the way . |
| 12 | She was reminded of her ravishment and how her lack then of a shapely figure had in no way inhibited the brutal hands of her assailant . |
| 13 | Freud wrote of the way in which fantasies or desires , often seen as evil or dangerous , could come to dominate a person 's life . |
| 14 | Tragedy strikes FOOTBALL : Romanian first division players Gabriel Nastase and Bogdan Banuta died when their Inter Sibiu club coach crashed on the way to a league game at Gloria Bistrita yesterday . |
| 15 | I respectfully agree with the judge that that would be an inappropriate way of achieving the result which clearly ought to be achieved , which is that a child abducted in the way this little boy was should be able to return home pending a decision as to whether he lives with his father or with his mother . |
| 16 | He also reported times when a parent complained about the way their child was treated when he knew the reason before they did : |
| 17 | Accordingly there was no consideration for the owner 's agreement to pay the further 10 per cent. , since the yard were already contractually bound to build the ship and it is common ground that the devaluation of the dollar had in no way lessened the yard 's legal obligation to do this . |
| 18 | A body got in the way . |
| 19 | The Generalísimo was unruffled by these indications that large sectors of the population disagreed with the way he had planned their future , for they posed no real threat to his power . |
| 20 | He explained his vision of primacy stemmed from the way the Pope can sometimes speak for all Christians in a way that no other bishop can . |
| 21 | This in fact became so only because of the policies Wilson adopted in the way of providing arms to the other side , for which there was insufficient compensation from the rather half-hearted support given by the Soviets and by a few other countries to the Biafrans . |
| 22 | The fish survived by the way … |
| 23 | Two dogs died on the way . |
| 24 | I 'm not asking for a lesson on highway modelling particularly at half past four in the afternoon but what 's your reaction to what Mr said about the way in which your model would perform in other words on an all or nothing basis , when it 's shorter it all goes that way ? |
| 25 | The views he expressed in The Middle Way , published in 1938 , pointing towards a managed economy and the expansion of welfare services to achieve a national minimum , came close to expressing the essential ingredients of what both PEP and the Next Five Years Group wanted in the way of a change of direction by the National Government . |
| 26 | The Robson Rhodes changes got in the way . |
| 27 | The conflict arose over the way in which the courts were administered and was a result of the application of managerial principles propagated by the Thatcher administrations of the 1980s . |
| 28 | And while it is easy enough for an experienced journalist to write that synopsis from memory ( checking for the elusive name of Software Arts and making sure that it really was PrairieTek that vanished last year ) , it would take a deal of research and above all deep thought to put together a dissertation on why things panned out the way they did , the fatal mistakes , the good decisions that each company made to achieve triumph or disaster , or both in quick succession . |
| 29 | Beatrice Webb 's admiration for the philanthropic work of Mary Booth rested on the way in which the latter expressed ‘ gentle and loving contempt for any special work outside the ordinary sphere of a woman 's life , [ and ] her high standard of excellence which should discourage any vain attempt to leave the beaten track of a woman 's duty ’ . |
| 30 | In their publicity for the film , Warner Bros boasted of the way in which the story had grown out of an actual incident and of Judge Musmanno 's involvement in the subsequent litigation , and also of how ex-miners had been brought in to ensure authentic mining scenes . |