Example sentences of "the way to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eleanor Pitman led the way to expansion in KENT , qualifying as a teacher at the first exam in 1955 , followed closely by Nellie Button and Cicely Harris . |
| 2 | The way to happiness then is the cultivation of thoughts that lead to contentment , joy and emotional warmth , and the habitual and increasing devotion to them , and the pruning out and burning of the thoughts that conduce to unhappiness . |
| 3 | Jim Moodie , who was rather a surprise winner of the earlier 600cc , showed he had lost none of his talent when leading all the way to out-gun Brian Reid with third place going to another Scot Ian Simpson . |
| 4 | Only when this phantasy is well on the way to realization as a practical mode of government does the citizen begin to notice that the state 's omnipresence means the total bureaucratization and control of life , that its omniscience dictates the need for total state surveillance , and that its omnipotence can only come about as a consequence of the total impotence of its subjects . |
| 5 | He walked over to the window and looked out at the courtyard below , busy with ambulances and patients clutching appointment cards as they peered hesitatingly at signs pointing the way to Casualty and X-ray and Outpatients , with the birdlike figures of caped nurses changing shifts , and the white coats of housemen hustling importantly from ward block to ward block . |
| 6 | NI charts the Right 's revolution and points the way to resistance . |
| 7 | On the way to assembly he made his approach . |
| 8 | " Did you hear what happened to Julie Mills yesterday , Bee ? " said Kevin , on the way to assembly . |
| 9 | All the way to Pom-land in fact . |
| 10 | Villa , though , knew the way to goal . |
| 11 | ‘ I used to play there as a boy , and people told us the tunnels went all the way to Cuchulain 's castle . |
| 12 | A Stepney dairyman 's daughter had to call every Sunday morning on the way to church , to read her grandfather a verse from the Bible . |
| 13 | Such developments are paving the way to rapprochement between conventional and complementary medicine . |
| 14 | He had added that " the people must vote in large numbers , to bar the way to adventurist projects " . |
| 15 | The removal of Carrick , and a number of other officers , clearly would open the way to promotion for others , but the charge that Carrick had claimed in an official record to have been in places which he had not in fact visited was not denied by the complainant . |
| 16 | And she 'd away back up the way to bed again . |
| 17 | I used to rub it off on the way to school . |
| 18 | He told his teacher he had lost it on the way to school , and Mr Watson promptly rapped his knuckles with a ruler for his carelessness . |
| 19 | Children in warm anoraks passed on the way to school . |
| 20 | It is understandable : the child considers himself safe in the residential street and is inattentive on the way to school . |
| 21 | He never troubled me again — in fact , he even used to say good morning to me on the way to school . |
| 22 | We used to have to pass on the way to school we used to pa pass a bakehouse , Bakehouse , in Road . |
| 23 | 10.00 : Was informed that a child on the small coach had an epileptic fit on the way to school this morning and that Coach Guide was very upset . |
| 24 | I pass a great variety of them on the way to school and I myself actually live , work and play in some of them . |
| 25 | All those years before television , she glowed like the Ready Brek kid , safe with her angels all the way to school . |
| 26 | Little children whose faces had opened like flowers in the nurturing glow of their first year became withdrawn and cried on the way to school . |
| 27 | There 's more than one way to prevent segre to prevent integration , you can draw school boundaries in certain ways to effectively segregate schools if you want to , but let's not have this macho stuff on the school steps , armed guards , you know , er I mean er the pictures of mobs , that 's the only expression for them I suppose , mobs of white people , you know , throwing , throwing bricks and bottles at seven and eight year old black children on the way to school , I do n't want , I do n't want , I can do without it . |
| 28 | Children at Wanborough primary school near Swindon are so worried about the hazards they experience on the way to school , they 're calling for a new footpath . |
| 29 | Our car conked out on the way to school . |
| 30 | on in school , on the way to school |