Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [prep] the way " in BNC.
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1 | Associated with cost is the gap that has developed between the ways in which essentially the same text is used by different groups of people . |
2 | Hillman amongst others has pointed to the way in which the impacts of local traffic inside Buchanan 's environmental areas seem to be ignored , as if the only danger comes from through traffic . |
3 | Maybe the specific association behind each of these works , generally commissioned from Arnold for particular events or celebrations , has got in the way of their wider circulation . |
4 | The failure of such tensions to overturn or revolutionize the social structure has rested in the way in which individuals have been socialized and the fundamental norms according to which the society operates . |
5 | Above all , attention has concentrated on the ways in which in the course of time they managed to transform their basis of subsistence , increase and concentrate populations and by making possible a finer subdivision of labour promote advances in technology which in turn generated further cycles of progressive change . |
6 | And I would not for the world meddle with her plans , though I am proud that she has consented on the way to visit me for a while . |
7 | I have played here in England now for five or six years and no one has complained about the way I swing the ball . |
8 | The concern of some researchers has extended to the ways in which boys are allowed to dominate girls in schools . |
9 | SINCE the first police forces were founded 150 years ago , everything about them has changed except the way they are organised . |
10 | Lydia asks me to pass her thanks to everyone who has contributed so generously to the campaign and says that while little has changed in the way of living conditions for the prisoners and their families , the campaigners are confident of their victory . |
11 | But absolutely nothing has changed in the way we work or how our customers place their orders and run their businesses . |
12 | She was listening for a new noise , the noise she thought she 'd heard on the way out to Chateaubriand : the irregular tapping of the axis lock crystal , jumping in its housing . |
13 | He 'd forgotten about the way it flickered before it came on properly and made a noise . |
14 | The weather was better for the flight back along the north coast , and we got views of the 8,000-foot-plus Picos de Europa which we 'd missed on the way down . |
15 | From this a spiral staircase led upwards to a similar-sized room with windows on all sides , and Sabine realised she must be in the tower she 'd noticed on the way in . |
16 | I got there first , ordered a Scotch , and opened the evening paper that I 'd bought on the way . |
17 | When she married she had to live in the country and , instead of bemoaning what she 'd lost in the way of concerts and the theatre , she enjoyed what was on offer . |
18 | You would never have guessed from the way the Parsons talked that they were childless . |
19 | ‘ Without Roland Garros , French tennis could never have developed in the way it has over recent years and we would never have won the Davis Cup , which has given us all such a tremendous boost . ’ |
20 | Now , having checked out the way EUROAIM functions , we may decide to go as part of their umbrella . |
21 | If she had n't come into the family … his family , would Matthew have turned out the way he was now , or would he have grown into a fine young man with a greater sense of responsibility towards his sister ? |
22 | Whatever the anti-nuclear movement might have said about the way the result was achieved , the CEGB had got the outcome it wanted . |
23 | And new Manager , Denis Smith , must have exploded at the way his defenders dillied and dallied and never got to the ball on time . |
24 | ‘ If I had done all six , my new film would have got in the way and I never would have wanted to hold the Darling Buds cast up . |
25 | Fribble was not really very much of a loss to this expedition , because he would only have got in the way , falling asleep at important meetings ( Lugh liked meetings ) , and eating all of their supplies . |
26 | Now , though , having to live again in a world where ideals were something to be discussed by intellectuals and certain priests , but never applied , as they would have got in the way of Horemheb 's programme of reform , Huy found his feelings dulled . |
27 | She still liked to type , so they would have got in the way of that , anyhow . |
28 | Here again , everyday language may have contributed to the way the children understood the question , since we have many expressions which represent vision as an active process : |
29 | I should have known from the way he could n't finish off this simple word that , a few days later , they would part . |
30 | What it may have sacrificed along the way is the user 's ability to create new sounds from scratch , though you can still edit existing ones . |