Example sentences of "have [vb pp] in the way " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But absolutely nothing has changed in the way we work or how our customers place their orders and run their businesses . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She still liked to type , so they would have got in the way of that , anyhow . |
| 11 | What we have not previously considered is that a cultural trait may have evolved in the way that it has , simply because it is advantageous to itself . |
| 12 | The last three cases are also authority for the proposition that it is proper , though not obligatory , for the trial judge to tell the jury that , as well as going to credibility , good character is relevant when considering whether the defendant is the kind of man who is likely to have behaved in the way that the prosecution alleged . |
| 13 | Well before the events of 1987 , changes had occurred in the way in which the struggle between tankers and their assailants was conducted . |
| 14 | It was the time of my own personal greatness , before any human hurt had got in the way . |
| 15 | She had n't meant to ask anything of the sort , but realised then that her love for Naylor , her basic need to know more and everything about him , had got in the way of the fury she felt at his latest bossy manoeuvre . |
| 16 | I shut the front door gently , a symbolic gesture which shut out what sounds there were , and went upstairs to see what that nice lady , Mrs Hamilton , had provided in the way of beds . |
| 17 | We 've changed in the way in which we travel . |
| 18 | May it not be , however , that others have originated in the way suggested by Daly ? |
| 19 | Well , so nothing , if the novel you have written is a good one and if nothing that you have done in the way of title , type of story , original laying-out of the situation has not broken that contract with the reader which says , " This will be a crime novel , it will entertain you first of all though it may cause you a little to think " . |
| 20 | Initially concerned with the advancement of these aims through the provision of low cost holidays abroad , rapid early success led to the extension of operations to the home market with publicity material stressing the proletarian nature of the enterprise : ‘ Trips for the workers ; Holidays to suit all pockets ’ ; ‘ What Cooks have done in the way of facilitating travel for the upper-middle and middling-middle classes , the WTA are arranging to do for the masses . ’ |
| 21 | I think the approach of parents is very often really quite a simple one erm that they have a number of very well defined expectations of the school and that is as far as one individual parent is concerned , that the parents wants the child to go to the school , he wants that child properly controlled , provided that it 's done in the way in which he particularly approves , and if you have fifteen hundred different parents there might be fourteen hundred and eighty five different techniques at work here , and then he wants the child simultaneously to be successful and happy . |
| 22 | He has turned away the glorious light of his countenance — or maybe the traffic fumes have got in the way , or maybe he 's turned off the telly because of the charismatics . ’ |
| 23 | Partners who have stood in the way of the culture change have not stayed long . |
| 24 | Yes , I think that , you know , I made the comment earlier that erm , we have changed in the way in which news is communicated , it takes seconds . |