Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] [prep] the way " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The reason for the accord rested in the way in which this eligibility test was administered . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She climbed down after him , her gaze drawn to the way his back tapered beneath the stretchy material of his T-shirt from heavily muscled shoulders to the narrow waist and lean hips of a man in peak physical condition . |
| 7 | A simple signature is fine , and then I , when I 'm satisfied that I have seen that work in your file done in the way you say you 've done it , I will sign the teacher column on your sheet Okay , let's start going down these six sections . |
| 8 | Still moving fast he went into the sea , his left leg jerking violently as the still unopened life raft got in the way . |
| 9 | Until recently , the major division between living things was seen as being between animals and plants — a division based on the way the organism acquires energy . |
| 10 | Between industrialization and the end of World War II , we find emphasis placed on the way vertical loyalty to the nation took precedence over , and shaped , the absorption of individuals into local groups . |
| 11 | Conversely , in the second account , there is too much emphasis on individual knowledge and too little emphasis given to the way in which individual abilities vary as a function of the social and physical context . |
| 12 | The post at Bradford was only the tip of the iceberg ( although a very big tip ) and much of the discussion throughout the rest of the day concentrated on the ways in which the Institute 's professional examination scheme could be offered in the most effective way in colleges , and to ensure that colleges , branches and Institute Headquarters were working together . |
| 13 | Studies have been conscious of the work in other disciplines such as the Metropolitan Meteorological Experiment ( METROMEX ) which is based in St Louis ( Chagnon , Huff , Schickedanz and Vogel , 1977 ) and has greatly increased knowledge of atmospheric processes within urban areas and investigations have also led towards applications of knowledge gained from the way in which a city generates its own climate so that Chandler ( 1976 ) in a review of urban climatology in relation to urban design suggested : |
| 14 | The core questions of why policy developed in the way it did and which factors initiated and influenced change are intended to inform a critical assessment of the outcome of policy in the shape of service provision for alcohol problems in the 1990's . |
| 15 | The great impact made by The Way of All Flesh suggests that many young men shared the experience of Pontifex , especially those who , like him , had been brought up in accordance with strict Evangelical principles . |
| 16 | Breakfast was an apple bought on the way to his primary five class . |
| 17 | Honesty is a character quality demonstrated in the way we deal with expense accounts , time cards and the extra money accidentally given us in change . |
| 18 | Er I will I will hand over but let me just say this that my instinct is that it a policy expressed in the way you 've you 've suggested is just superfluous because all you 're doing is describing in in a po in upper case letters , the situation as it is and that that my answer is that it would that there would be no need for such a it would be gratuitously ap it 's an unnecessary statement . |
| 19 | To me , Cornwall was an area covered on the way to the Scilly Isles , with its infamous humpback runway , or to Land 's End for the standard photo of the signpost showing the distance to your home town . |
| 20 | The only change in the intervening period had been that the government had prepared for the threatened dispute while the Samuel Commission deliberated about the way in which to make the industry more efficient and profitable . |
| 21 | ‘ NOW Arthur sends his Eagle to Shaftesbury to share with all the world a Message shaped by the Way of Healing experienced in Avalon and glorified by the Grace of Gaia 's planetary heart ’ — Passage from new book , Spheres of Destiny , The Shaftesbury Prophecy , by Robert Coon , which concludes that Shaftesbury is the energy centre of the Earth . |
| 22 | Everything that terrible man laid in the way between them was a test or a trap , and all his will was bent to break the son as he could not break the father . |
| 23 | The progress of life unfolded in the way it did because God had imposed a preordained sequence of developmental stages through which organisms must ascend towards the human form . |
| 24 | Their resentment focused on the way industry seemed to be benefiting at their expense . |
| 25 | Their resentment focused on the way industry seemed to be benefiting at their expense and they blamed the Finance Ministry 's favouritism towards industry for the plight — and the restiveness — of the peasantry . |
| 26 | If only because the offence is defined in terms of ‘ duty ’ the concept must be in some way limited to the ways that the law obliges the constable to act , in however attenuated or weak a sense of that word . |
| 27 | ‘ You mean that 's all the Mission bought in the way of filing cabinets ? ’ |
| 28 | It is the number of operations needed to move from x to y if no tile got in the way of any other . |
| 29 | I think er it 's got to be er linked certainly to the rate of inflation , er and in some way linked to the way that the fire service er has their pay formula , and they 're actually linked to 25% of the top 25% of schooled manual workers , er we 'd be looking at some sort of deal like that , or if it was n't er tied up with percentage rates I think we need , definitely need an independent pay review body for the ambulance service . |
| 30 | There is a real sense of surprise embedded in the way that Luke deals with this issue of conflict , taking two whole chapters to expound it . |