Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] [verb] the way " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Government could only be brought down if sufficient Conservatives were prepared to vote with Labour and Liberal MPs to defeat it in the House of Commons , forcing a new election or opening the way to a reconstituted anti-fascist National Government . |
| 2 | Conformity with observations about the interdependence between mind function and brain function does not support the claim of the neurophysiological CTP to explain mind or point the way to such an explanation . |
| 3 | Mr Yeltsin 's spokesman , Vyacheslav Kostikov , told reporters that the parliament , formally known as the Supreme Soviet , was trying ‘ to use any means to remove the lawfully elected president and open the way to power for the forces of revenge and totalitarian restoration . ’ |
| 4 | He scrambled out of the car and led the way to the new dunes overlooking the sea . |
| 5 | ‘ This was naturally our first port of call , ’ Ockleton continued , climbing from the car and leading the way into the churchyard . |
| 6 | It is a programme designed to add to the wealth and efficiency of the nation , to give a spur to industry and to open the way to markets . ’ |
| 7 | Senegalese President Abdou Diouf visited Kinshasa on Nov. 22 to attend the signing of the agreement brokered by Wade , which included calls by both sides for their supporters to eschew violence and to clear the way for the functioning of the national conference . |
| 8 | ‘ Let's have it in the sitting-room , ’ Miss Honey said , picking up the tray and leading the way out of the kitchen and down the dark little tunnel into the room at the front . |
| 9 | Doctor McCann released his grip and blocked the way to the stairs . |
| 10 | the article from insurance law monthly summarises the current law and points the way forward . |
| 11 | Some people think the parliamentary election should be brought forward from 1993 , to give the government legitimacy and to open the way for a new president — Mr Lech Walesa ? — in place of General Jaruzelski . |
| 12 | Tanner quickly swallowed the last of his lager and led the way . |
| 13 | As they marched through the empty streets , however , a little old man put himself in front of the marching column and led the way , beating a kettle-drum and pronouncing the restoration of the Company Bahadur . |
| 14 | The hon. Gentleman will understand that it is not for us to tie the hands of the Government of Kenya but to encourage , offer help and point the way whenever we possibly can . |
| 15 | Constant scientific , technological , political , and social changes generate a stream of new vocabulary and alter the way in which existing words are used . |
| 16 | Representatives from all 22 clubs join Premier League officials at London 's Park Court Hotel for an Annual General Meeting which will reflect on the inaugural campaign and point the way to a brighter future . |
| 17 | Whether we call some individuals Ranters , others Levellers , Diggers , Muggletonians , early Quakers and so forth and then present them either as a type of ‘ lunatic fringe ’ to mainstream developments or , as Hill eloquently puts it in his The World Turned Upside Down : ‘ the attempts of various groups of the common people to impose their own solutions to the problems of their time , in opposition to the wishes of their betters who had called them into political action ’ is a matter of current political alignment and represents the way we wish to intervene in the present as in the past . |
| 18 | He paid the driver and led the way into the building . |
| 19 | Second , there are surface connections which establish interrelationships between persons and events ; these allow us to trace participants in a text and to interpret the way in which different parts of the text relate to each other ( cohesion ) . |
| 20 | And they kill from spite : they despise the colour of another 's skin and resent the way another worships God . |
| 21 | If we decide to change the way we do business or change the way the application works on how it models our environment , then we have to revisit using this architecture every single client machine on the network and upgrade that particular business function . |
| 22 | There was some ambiguity about whether the object of the policy was to precipitate a capitalist crisis and open the way for large-scale nationalization and socialist planning , or whether — as Hobson preferred to think — the result of such redistribution would be to increase demand and put capitalism back on its feet . |
| 23 | It was , however , the case of Alger Hiss that created a national sensation and opened the way to a full-scale Communist " witch hunt " . |
| 24 | On the other hand I 'm not a ballet choreographer , so I 'm going to enjoy this process and move the way I want to and try to teach them what I do and why I do it . ’ |
| 25 | About 160 B.C. an original thinker had emerged among them , Aristobulus , who applied allegorical interpretation to the Bible and paved the way for Philo . |
| 26 | The injunction was subsequently lifted by the court , effectively endorsing Branson 's appointment as director and leaving the way open for the Virgin Group directors to exercise full and unhindered control of the airline . |
| 27 | BP is believed to be considering two approaches , one based on a reduction in petroleum revenue tax that would raise the group 's exposure to corporation tax but open the way for an advanced corporation tax offset . |
| 28 | Nuclear Electric were making light of the delay and praised the way the mock emergency was being handled . |
| 29 | This decision settles an inter-departmental squabble of long standing and opens the way for the government to reconsider Britain 's equally long-standing refusal to sign the World Heritage Convention . |
| 30 | Drawing on a notion of autonomy which originates with Kant , and which is developed in the writings of Hegel and Marx , Assiter extends this notion and criticises the way in which it has been confined to the public sphere . |