Example sentences of "[conj] [be] on [art] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two appear to be working through a shopping list of NT 's ingredients , ticking off those features and functions that can already be found in their own , or equivalent , open systems products that are already on the market , or are on the way . |
| 2 | Christ that was on the way ! |
| 3 | It came to have Connolly 's support and was on the way to becoming thoroughly nationalist and republican under Connolly 's influence . |
| 4 | Oldknow seems to have had in mind a great combined enterprise , with 1,000 factory workers and 1,000 weavers , and was on the way to becoming one of England 's greatest cotton lords , to rank with the Peels , Arkwrights , and Strutts . |
| 5 | The anonymous writer of 1497 said that apart from London there were only two towns of importance in the country , Bristol and York , but in this he was misinformed , as it seems likely that Norwich , which had undoubtedly had a period of difficulties in the early fifteenth century , had begun to recover about 1465 or 1470 , and was on the way to becoming the second wealthiest city in the land , as it was in the 1520s . |