Example sentences of "get in [art] way " in BNC.

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1 They 've continued the business , using the house as a country location , though home-making activities have often got in the way .
2 It was the time of my own personal greatness , before any human hurt had got in the way .
3 Still moving fast he went into the sea , his left leg jerking violently as the still unopened life raft got in the way .
4 It was n't my fault all those trees and street lights and things got in the way , ’ he added , after catching Masklin 's eye .
5 ‘ 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 .
6 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 .
7 However as we have just seen , women did correct at Constable 's and despite what seems to be an oblique claim by Margaret Irwin that their breasts got in the way , they certainly did correcting in several other printing houses .
8 It is the number of operations needed to move from x to y if no tile got in the way of any other .
9 THESE FOUR boxes of action highlights from Pickwick enable the devout to exhume the 1992 World Cup , feeling it again as if they were in attendance in Australasia once more or seeing much of it for the first time if sleep and work schedules got in the way during those 33 hectic days and nights .
10 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 .
11 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 . ’
12 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 .
13 She still liked to type , so they would have got in the way of that , anyhow .
14 ‘ I once had ideas of sailing around the world , doing a Sir Francis Chichester , you know , but work got in the way , and I had to lower my sights . ’
15 When Lou got in the car , the bulky jacket that she wore over her washed denim skirt got in the way of her seat belt and her movements as she struggled to fasten the buckle were jerky and nervous .
16 Bunny drove an old Vauxhall , probably older than himself , because it had a bench front seat and column change and gear levers got in the way .
17 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 .
18 Well she was n't going to and then the elections got in the way .
19 We have problems on British television because our theatrical tradition gets in the way , so-that characters talk too much , as though the medium is only half way from the stage .
20 The ecclesiasticism that so often gets in the way of the gospel ; the temporal concerns of church politics that take up so much time ; the fussiness of much of church life ; our obsession with ‘ churchy ’ things — all these and more are aspects of additions that are really secondary concerns .
21 The 90 has a cross member at the front between the chassis rails which gets in the way .
22 I think the equipment gets in the way of creativity — photography is an art not a craft , you should MAKE pictures not just take them . ’
23 It enables us to remove anything that gets in the way of our relationship with God .
24 For me , when man ( or woman ) talks of ‘ God ’ he just gets in the way .
25 As a result , the panel actually gets in the way of discovering the very information it is there to find out .
26 So much ignorance and pride gets in the way of race relations . ’
27 ‘ It 's times like that when his work gets in the way most . ’
28 ‘ Hopefully , it will help to remove the awful stigma that gets in the way of people seeking treatment . ’
29 Southall , delighted with the look made famous by the great Russian goalkeeper Lev Yashin , has even added to the macho image by pulling out all the padding which comes with today 's goalkeepers ' shirts because he thinks it gets in the way of doing the job properly .
30 ‘ I 'm a traditionalist at heart and do n't bother with the padding either because it just gets in the way . ’
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