Example sentences of "[prep] [art] way to [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Are they saying that housewives are less able to understand and resist the dangers than other workers , or that all oppressed workers should renounce pay as the way to liberation ?
2 The land rises most of the way to Aberangell , so the railway was well below us and usually visible .
3 The rate at which it does this is measured as a " time constant " — defined as the time it takes for the output to return 63 per cent of the way to baseline , after a shift in input voltage level .
4 Armed with this treat , I ran most of the way to Bugmore , where Dad would stop work , off we would go to the shed , sit on the upturned wooden wheelbarrow and thoroughly enjoy the snack .
5 AN OPERATION to move 250 pensioners from eight council care homes which are closing down is one third of the way to completion .
6 A single line railway ran from St George 's to Kelly 's Island , the full length of the colony , and many Bermudians brought their bicycles part of the way to town on the flat-cars attached to the train for that purpose .
7 They took place following claims that some members of the cult practice sexual abuse on children as a way to salvation and heaven .
8 The STEAM locomotive is about to make a comeback on railways in the US as a way to lesson the dependence of the national transport network on oil .
9 It lies engulfed amid the new colonies that have recently sprung up along the way to Mehrauli , a small enclave of mud-walled , flat-roofed village life besieged by a ring of high-rise apartments .
10 On the way to Mrs Zamzam 's land , I looked across the same Lebanese border from the Israeli side and could actually make out in the far distance Mrs Zamzam 's camp at Rashidiyeh inside Lebanon .
11 The personification furnishes not only a necessary step on the way to judgments about particular people , but a plateau we can occupy to consider these judgments .
12 There is the Encomiast 's eye-witness account of his lavish gifts to the monasteries and poor of St Omer when on the way to Rome , and of the tears and breast-beating which accompanied them .
13 ‘ Besides , now that I do not have to stop on the way to Paris for lunch I can go later .
14 Murray also arranged for the players to watch a video of the game on the coach on the way to Stockport .
15 packing Friday on the way to mum Peter 's mum she told them she 's just in so much pain , she wants it doing so he 's gon na get in , I said , it 's poss that she 'll be in six days and probably off a few weeks after when she gets home it 's operation on her neck and shoulder they 're going to release the nerve they reckon it 's it 's a she told them and do what they will with it .
16 He stayed for five years — photographing cars and production lines — before being dismissed for habitual lateness ( he had dallied once too often taking pictures on the way to work ) .
17 On the way to work , we bump into Milena .
18 but she saw him on the way to work in town , had a bloody great barney with him on the market place on the way to work , just say , she was in there about ten minutes and burst into tears
19 it 's in the paper cos , a fellow on the way to work said it was and she , Graham got married in the May and er they get married in Cyprus but
20 going on the way to work .
21 At the pier , shops sell batiks and woollens to the ferry travellers : families with packed cars and roof-racks ; men with sheepdogs on the way to trials at Mallaig ; bikers on some kind of round robin according to their luggage tags — ‘ Genève-Edinburgh-Brugge-Genève ’ .
22 Perhaps not last Sunday , and perhaps not on the way to Liam Shakespeare 's front door , but it had happened .
23 Yeah , Dan 's car broke down on the way to Birmingham you know .
24 It was converted from a nobleman 's residence situated about two and a half miles north-east of San Gimignano on the way to Certaldo , is surrounded by its own gardens and is tastefully appointed in every aspect .
25 He died on the way to Stobhill Hospital .
26 Descriptions of offices , studios and wind tunnels , and an account of getting lost in Luton on the way to Vauxhall headquarters because of roadworks on the M1 , are no substitute .
27 Each of the schools we visited pursued the matter differently , and in some the quality of relationships established with parents and the community was impressive , the more so for being the result of long and painstaking work by heads and teachers , often encountering frustrations and setbacks on the way to success .
28 After signing the accord , the Czechoslovak Prime Minister , Marian Calfa said it was a milestone on the way to Czechoslovakia becoming a full EC member , for which he would now press .
29 On the way to Lass Lane they told him their names and he said his was Timothy Gedge .
30 She knots up some girdle-cakes ( lepëshki ) in a kerchief and plunges through the thick spring mud of the village track to the river Iput' near by where she catches one of several small boats plying to Volga , a market town on the way to Roslavl' .
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