Example sentences of "to get [prep] way " in BNC.
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1 | However , the development of specially-tailored funds and financial products to compete with those offered by banks is beginning to get under way and there is a potentially lucrative link-up with the big assurance companies based on the post office 's huge client base . |
2 | ‘ The figures are a movable feast , but they show how important it is for anonymised prevalence testing to get under way so we can get a true picture of infection in the population . ’ |
3 | We had several conversations at the Concentration area at Southampton waiting for the invasion to get under way . |
4 | The gang was pulling at each other , shouting obscenities , opening windows , smoking , drinking wine , pulling the bell cord and shouting for the bus to get under way . |
5 | There was by now a continual branching off of sub-orders , and more easily acquired food enabled basic structure changes to get under way . |
6 | A SPONSORED swim is due to get under way tomorrow at the Walton-on-the-Naze pool to help save dolphins . |
7 | He has kicked the booze , lost weight , and he is itching for the Italian League to get under way . |
8 | As can be seen in Table 1 , throughout this century there has been a large decline in private renting , and a corresponding increase in owner-occupation and council housing , which began to get under way after the First World War . |
9 | This show is beginning to get under way , and they do n't like their little boys in blue to have family troubles . |
10 | It was a signal peculiar to Thames river — I am about to get under way . |
11 | What is more they appear to have done it , whether in small discussion groups , or the concerts and parties she helped to get under way to celebrate the ending of the war , which also came in that year . |
12 | ‘ I want to get under way as soon as possible . ’ |
13 | And he wanted to help me to get under way you see but I was n't long started farming . |
14 | Yet that was the hour at which Fen had called her , telling her of his intention to get under way . |
15 | This purpose had been called into question when constitutional reform began to get under way , albeit falteringly , in South Africa . |
16 | The Premier also said there was still the option of an American peace envoy being appointed to oversee developments in Ulster — if the talks failed to get under way again . |
17 | Repairs are expected to cost at least £4.5m and work is due to get under way in the next few weeks . |
18 | Rebuilding work is due to get under way in the next few weeks when councillors decide which bid to accept for the contract . |
19 | PowerGen , which along with the other English generator , National Power , makes up 50 per cent of BR 's freight business , said the contract would be cancelled from next spring when BR privatisation is due to get under way . |