Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [prep] the way " in BNC.

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1 ‘ The recession got in the way .
2 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 .
3 But this is not a time for personal pride and stubborn resistance to stand in the way of the cold , hard facts of life .
4 The next chapter looks at the way in which the working class has been involved in class alliances in order to capture the state and exert influence that way .
5 This chapter looks at the way in which overseas trusts are made subject to UK income taxation .
6 and if you look in the blue box , bottom left to begin with it says this chapter looks at the way in which human beings treat animals .
7 The second in a three-part series on America 's reviving car industry looks at the way its management has changed
8 In principle , it seems unjust that a homicide conviction should not be possible in such a case , if all the other elements can be established and only the ‘ year and a day ’ rule stands in the way .
9 ‘ 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 . ’
10 The Club 's President revealed along the way that he had played his first golf at St Andrew 's in 1886 , aged 3½ , when he had used a wooden putter .
11 And if you 're so inclined , there 's potential for ticking off a few classic rock climbs along the way .
12 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 .
13 ‘ We 're in the middle of an investigation and , quite frankly , we do n't want anyone from Central HQ getting in the way . ’
14 The stranger looms in the way
15 But he meant well , and the place and his practice thrived in the way that life tends to in India .
16 The reason for the accord rested in the way in which this eligibility test was administered .
17 Such a debate would give right hon. and hon. Members — particularly those whose constituents , like mine in the north-west , are suffering from the loss of their MGN pensions — an opportunity to ask the Opposition to account for the way in which some of their members who were trustees of the MGN fund behaved in a wholly negligent way .
18 Thomas Edwards suggested that the fault lay in the way the book was assembled .
19 The result went against the way in which I cast my vote .
20 Do n't let organisational oversight get in the way of the work .
21 The proposed plan of action focuses on the way health and social services work together to provide services to those in need , particularly elderly people , including :
22 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 .
23 This chapter focuses on the ways in which age discrimination is both a product of and manifested in the social security system .
24 It was beyond the scope of this study to enquire into the way by which urethane inhibits mucosal repair processes .
25 The non-equivalence of the optimal tariff and its quota-equivalent arises from the way in which firms ' behaviour changes in the presence of quantity constraints .
26 It is no doubt for this reason that the Syrian foreign minister , Farouk at-Shara , has gone out of his way to emphasise that continued Syrian support depends on the way in which the West responds to what Syria perceives to be the fundamental problem of Middle Eastern security — the Arab-Israeli dispute and the Palestinian issue .
27 Maladministration refers to the way in which decisions have been taken covering administrative action or inaction based on or influenced by improper considerations or conduct .
28 Rather its relevance lies in the way it constrains the interpretation of [ 14a ] so that hearers can see it as an interpretation of the speaker 's thoughts about the state of the pound .
29 Tragedy strikes FOOTBALL : Romanian first division players Gabriel Nastase and Bogdan Banuta died when their Inter Sibiu club coach crashed on the way to a league game at Gloria Bistrita yesterday .
30 I respectfully agree with the judge that that would be an inappropriate way of achieving the result which clearly ought to be achieved , which is that a child abducted in the way this little boy was should be able to return home pending a decision as to whether he lives with his father or with his mother .
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