Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the way [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | The campaign of the Conservative candidate , Richard Hickmet , was criticized for the way in which it dwelt on the controversial claim that it would be a " moral victory for terrorism " if the seat were to change hands as a result of the killing of Gow . |
2 | In his paper ‘ Analysis Terminable and Interminable ’ ( 1937 ) , which belongs to the same period of Freud 's life as Moses and Monotheism , Freud writes about the way in which nearly all women patients show signs of wishing to be men , and men seek to avoid taking a passive attitude towards other men , including a male therapist . |
3 | Solutions to the Ferranti crisis are not going to be easy to find despite the way in which the company has been inundated with offers of help . |
4 | If I do it in private , I may easily fall into the way of doing so in public . |
5 | Addressing an audience of sensible and clear-headed gentlemen — the sort of people who had produced the Bloodless Revolution of 1688 — Locke pictured himself as ‘ an under-labourer in clearing the ground a little , and removing much of the rubbish that lies in the way of knowledge ’ . |
6 | The Lake District is one of the most compactly beautiful regions in England and so much of its intrinsic attraction lies in the way of life led by native Cumbrians . |
7 | One possible explanation lies in the way in which charge carriers move between crystal lattice planes : the build up of charge carriers on alternate planes of a graphite lattice gives rise to local electrical fields that oppose the main field and generate the out-of-phase conduction . |
8 | The relevance of this to the concerns of a chapter on land lies in the way in which location and style are the core of much of the development process . |
9 | The key to its ethical and practical success lies in the way in which the technical problems involved in its production were overcome . |
10 | By day it 's very much a ‘ let's get a sunlounger and lie on the sand ’ sort of resort and the sandy beach is well equipped with everything you 'll need in the way of bars , restaurants and shade , and there are several places to waterski , windsurf and parascend or try your hand on the wet bikes . |
11 | Inspired , yes , by a bus run , but the booler is definitely my own husband who is devoted to sport and allows nothing to come in the way of his bowls , both indoor and outdoor bowling . |
12 | The black director Spike Lee has made a similar mistake in Malcolm X , not so much in characterisation but in allowing awe of the man who challenged white authority in America to come in the way of good film-making . |
13 | Well you see , nothing much seems to be happening in the way of actual fighting , so we try to keep them amused with sport . |
14 | Gauging the kind of people you are going to meet in the way of giving you work . |
15 | Its goal was to identify what stands in the way of effective action on the build-up of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere . |
16 | It 's also alive with midges , which stands in the way of it being a Scottish Shangrila . |
17 | I prefer a more recessed sound with the guitar shade more forward , but nothing stands in the way of a hearty recommendation . |
18 | Given the composition of Council , it is likely that only the DTI stands in the way of adoption of this proposal : if it is adopted , I hope we will be spared further sanctimonious claims to the high ground by the Institute , and that it concedes it is operating predominantly in the interests of ( some of ) its members . |
19 | In order to sustain a more robust disagreement , individualist theorists must contend that human autonomy makes a substantial difference to the explanation of action , and stands in the way of the determinist account supposedly favoured by holists . |
20 | He stresses in particular that enlightened self love itself will realize that too much love of self , and too little of others , stands in the way of happiness . |
21 | He traces the origins of contemporary attitudes to professionalism and public services , to the Victorian period , and argues that the model we have inherited is outmoded and stands in the way of improving professionally relationships . |
22 | Even worse , some think public relations stands in the way of getting at the real facts . |
23 | ‘ The Emperor is not your enemy , Deems , except in so far as he stands in the way of your advancement . |
24 | In this case , only the Secretary of State stands in the way of a move to decentralise control over local spending and to return it to local communities . |
25 | TIME has run out for the Angus family whose cottage stands in the way of a multi-million pound dual carriageway on the Dundee to Aberdeen road , writes James Rougvie . |
26 | With the current state of play , what you want in the way of networking may not be easy or cheap but it is almost certainly possible . |
27 | Go to a crack house , Nick , and you can buy anything you want in the way of human flesh . |
28 | In this case , however , it seemed that the nature of the disease was systematically to destroy those nerve cells essential to the control of sleep , and these unfortunate people probably represent the closest that we can expect to find in the way of a natural experiment on the long-term effects of the denial of sleep . |
29 | Nothing has been allowed to stand in the way of the sector 's progress towards profitability . |
30 | Well , a little thing like that should not be allowed to stand in the way of such a great man , so Mr Pozsgay now spends one hour a week in the gym . |