Example sentences of "[being] [vb pp] [prep] the way " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was , therefore , simply being treated in the way in which the French thought royal children should be brought up . |
| 2 | Until now we have been concerned with how water gets into and is distributed around the house , sometimes being heated on the way . |
| 3 | May I first say that I am sorry in fact that local authorities and police authorities are being separated in the way clause two proposes . |
| 4 | The dead were carried in wicker coffins from Keld along the corpse road , stops being made along the way for food and drink , and every so often there were great " coffin stones " at the side of the way where the pallbearers could rest the body ( one such stone still stands at the side of Ivelet Bridge ) . |
| 5 | The results of our education reforms and improvements in the 1980s are being shown by the way in which our young people are leaving higher education with qualifications . |
| 6 | ( a ) in saying ‘ Something appears white ’ you are making certain assumptions about language ; you are assuming , for example , that the word ‘ white ’ , or the phrase ‘ appears white ’ , is being used in the way in which you have used it on other occasions , or in the way in which other people have used it . |
| 7 | The villagers and their plaster statue were pursued across Penhill , the statue being damaged on the way and burnt at Grassgill End where it was finally captured . |
| 8 | That of course assumes that everything spent on transport in England is a national cost and that the policing of London is a national cost , but we say that once we settle down and allocate the nature of expenditure as between the two countries , disallowing the cost of running the southern region of the railways as a United Kingdom expense , it is perfectly clear , as the Scottish newspapers have often demonstrated under the heading ’ Scotching the Myth ’ — Scottish Television has demonstrated the same in a programme of the same name — that there is no question of Scotland being subsidised in the way that the hon. Gentleman suggests . |
| 9 | Those living near the common have say the festival was like an invasion , but questions are being asked about the way the festival was policed . |
| 10 | Further to that supplementary question , will the Minister also have a word with the planners about hotel accommodation , especially in the County Antrim area , and find out why so many obstacles are being put in the way of hoteliers who want to improve their facilities ? |
| 11 | Erm , you 're being recorded by the way . |
| 12 | No you 're being recorded by the way . |
| 13 | Holding that the dismissals were fair , the tribunal said that , whilst it accepted that the union did not specifically accept what was proposed by the company , it concluded that , by its continuing and sustained silence over a period of a month , the union had agreed to the compulsory redundancies being handled in the way the company had proposed . |
| 14 | So called keyhole surgery is being hailed as the way most operations will be carried out in the future but only a minority of surgeons can actually do it . |
| 15 | The service will deal with problems such as : Is the loan being managed in the way envisaged ? |