Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] in the way " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I wondered what exactly was going on when I found I could n't get into my own garage because of a great red car parked in the way . ’ |
| 2 | When Lou got in the car , the bulky jacket that she wore over her washed denim skirt got in the way of her seat belt and her movements as she struggled to fasten the buckle were jerky and nervous . |
| 3 | The reason for the accord rested in the way in which this eligibility test was administered . |
| 4 | The solipsist , that is to say , can not get the practice started in the way in which he pretends , by concentrating on the nature of the original sensation and inventing a word to refer to this sensation and to others like it . |
| 5 | For one , the legal barriers thrown in the way of interstate banking in the 1930s were progressively lowered after the mid-1980s , leading to the rise of ‘ super-regionals ’ . |
| 6 | A simple signature is fine , and then I , when I 'm satisfied that I have seen that work in your file done in the way you say you 've done it , I will sign the teacher column on your sheet Okay , let's start going down these six sections . |
| 7 | Still moving fast he went into the sea , his left leg jerking violently as the still unopened life raft got in the way . |
| 8 | ‘ I accept that the local authority and the social workers behaved in the way in which they did in error , but it is an important constitutional matter , and to mark the position , and so that local authorities shall not be under any misapprehension about their powers , I order that the costs of this application be paid by the local authority . |
| 9 | Such cells were able to maintain their preference when the heads were inverted or other difficulties placed in the way of recognition , and one would much like to know about the computational principles and physiological mechanisms that performed the task . |
| 10 | My Lords , I have had the advantage of reading in draft the speeches of my noble and learned friends , Lord Keith of Kinkel and Lord Browne-Wilkinson , and for the reasons which they give I agree that the appeal should be allowed and the questions answered in the way in which my noble and learned friend , Lord Keith of Kinkel , proposes . |
| 11 | My Lords , I agree with my noble and learned friend , Lord Keith of Kinkel , whose draft speech I have had the opportunity to read , that for the reasons he gives the appeal should be allowed and the questions answered in the way he proposes . |
| 12 | THESE FOUR boxes of action highlights from Pickwick enable the devout to exhume the 1992 World Cup , feeling it again as if they were in attendance in Australasia once more or seeing much of it for the first time if sleep and work schedules got in the way during those 33 hectic days and nights . |
| 13 | It was n't my fault all those trees and street lights and things got in the way , ’ he added , after catching Masklin 's eye . |
| 14 | The core questions of why policy developed in the way it did and which factors initiated and influenced change are intended to inform a critical assessment of the outcome of policy in the shape of service provision for alcohol problems in the 1990's . |
| 15 | Honesty is a character quality demonstrated in the way we deal with expense accounts , time cards and the extra money accidentally given us in change . |
| 16 | Er I will I will hand over but let me just say this that my instinct is that it a policy expressed in the way you 've you 've suggested is just superfluous because all you 're doing is describing in in a po in upper case letters , the situation as it is and that that my answer is that it would that there would be no need for such a it would be gratuitously ap it 's an unnecessary statement . |
| 17 | Everything that terrible man laid in the way between them was a test or a trap , and all his will was bent to break the son as he could not break the father . |
| 18 | The progress of life unfolded in the way it did because God had imposed a preordained sequence of developmental stages through which organisms must ascend towards the human form . |
| 19 | Well she was n't going to and then the elections got in the way . |
| 20 | ‘ You mean that 's all the Mission bought in the way of filing cabinets ? ’ |
| 21 | However as we have just seen , women did correct at Constable 's and despite what seems to be an oblique claim by Margaret Irwin that their breasts got in the way , they certainly did correcting in several other printing houses . |
| 22 | It is the number of operations needed to move from x to y if no tile got in the way of any other . |
| 23 | Renault has played an important role in this change , with the popularity of Renault diesel engines reflected in the way diesel versions accounted for 16% of all Clio sales in the UK during the last quarter of 1992 . |
| 24 | Of all the obstacles put in the way of young refugees entering the learned professions , none were higher and bulkier than those erected by the medical fraternity . |
| 25 | There are no obstacles put in the way of producing Olympic athletes . |
| 26 | There is a real sense of surprise embedded in the way that Luke deals with this issue of conflict , taking two whole chapters to expound it . |
| 27 | Bunny drove an old Vauxhall , probably older than himself , because it had a bench front seat and column change and gear levers got in the way . |