Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [prep] the way " in BNC.
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| 1 | In particular the teaching force will not be regenerated or remotivated in the ways that are necessary ( and possible ) , and which alone will lead to the real and sustained improvements in the quality of the service delivered to pupils . |
| 2 | It seems clear to us that all of the above criteria will be enhanced or negated by the way in which the change agent or the action system reacts to participation : what stereotypes do they have of client representatives ? do they believe in participation ? what expectations do they have of participation and client representatives ? |
| 3 | Outside the village of Paulton in Somerset there is a memorial to a glider that crashed on the way to Arnhem , killing everyone on board . |
| 4 | There were many amusing things that happened on the way out , to distract us from the utter boredom of slogging through the Med and down the Red Sea . |
| 5 | I have enjoyed all the contributions , particularly those that touched on the way that crime affects constituents who live in districts such as Cardiff and Sandwell . |
| 6 | He suffered from chronic bronchitis and arthritis , conditions that sprang from the way he had had to live in war-torn France . |
| 7 | All that stood in the way of victory was a touch of bad luck . |
| 8 | I met the French and Moroccan men who changed and broke the deadlock between their countries that stood in the way of Morocco 's independence ; and in Nigeria we know that pioneer freedom fighter of Africa , Azikiwe , whose miraculous change of direction , and reconciliation with his political enemies , averted a Mau Mau uprising in the 1950's . |
| 9 | The caterers arrived too early and got in the way of the woman who was doing the flowers . |
| 10 | Drained by his ranting and lulled by the way he could float in the starsuit , just touching the padded interior , he drifted into and out of sleep like a man wandering through the rooms of an empty house . |
| 11 | And stopped on the way of course in . |
| 12 | Mark and I agreed to have a game together soon and I moved off down the course , and mused on the ways in which the pro golfers cope in their different ways with the unusual demands of the pro-am . |
| 13 | He smiled and frowned in the way she loved . |
| 14 | Poking his head out from the cab , to get a little cooling draught , he noticed that they were about to enter a long deep cutting and marvelled at the way the cutting must have been cut through almost solid rock . |
| 15 | Gradually we re-evaluated ourselves as women and looked at the way we had always put ourselves down . |
| 16 | School came and went in the way that a school day usually lasts . |
| 17 | Rising to his feet on the floor of the penthouse Nicholas staggered for a moment , while his wrists were being wrenched back and lashed ; and knew from the way John was standing that he had received the same treatment . |
| 18 | Rory talked fast and funnily , told them of the rat they 'd found in the caravan when they 'd come to it , recounted the horrors of a little restaurant in Buncrana where they 'd eaten the night before , and laughed at the way he and Mallachy had sailed past the beach a thousand times before deciding to boldly ask them for a drink . |
| 19 | Little children whose faces had opened like flowers in the nurturing glow of their first year became withdrawn and cried on the way to school . |
| 20 | Oh , the neighbour rang me up and said by the way she 'll be a bit late |
| 21 | Many have tried , but perished on the way . |
| 22 | Others were pro-reform but disapproved of the way the reforms were currently being implemented . |