Example sentences of "way on [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the purposes of exposition , though it is of necessity an oversimplification , we can say that objects of feeling , particularly other people , encountered in the outer world are mapped subjectively in some way on to the inner world . |
| 2 | In the seconds at the bottom when everything had steadied , when there was n't a breath of air , just a strange unreal calm , he rolled over the edge and clawed his way on to the thin rubber bottom of the raft . |
| 3 | It was an easy matter to buy my way on to the same flight . |
| 4 | The promise of plenty of planting can prove useful to a company in search of planning permission , so Waterers has found its services increasingly in demand by supermarket giants Sainsbury 's and Tesco as they try and inveigle their way on to the green belt . |
| 5 | This will be particularly important in our efforts to explore the ways in which the private traumas of married couples have found their way on to the public agendas of churchmen , politicians , policy makers and others over a fifty year period . |