Example sentences of "way to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , there are many other cases — just mentioned once or twice by one or two newspapers — which contribute in various ways to the development of the same kind of image . |
| 2 | What each of us does over a long period of trial and error is to acquire a set of tools with which we are comfortable and which we can apply in different ways to the myriad problems which we need to solve . |
| 3 | If schools respond in different ways to the requirement for guidance , special information and sometimes special effort which attends higher education entry as against guidance for entry into vocational education and training , is this because there are two cultures ? |
| 4 | The gathering momentum of clericalism under the Carolingians can be seen from the fact that while Alcuin still addressed his learning in many ways to the laity , his pupil Hrabanus Maurus , abbot of Fulda , wrote the De Institutione Clericorum , a compendium of theology and law exclusively for the clergy . |
| 5 | While the functions of the primary and secondary markets differ it is no accident that the financial institutions participating in them are often the same , because an efficient secondary market , in which existing securities can be bought or sold easily , contributes in several important ways to the strength of the primary market . |
| 6 | There were two ways to the farm and the sound came from a narrow track which joined the main road half a mile beyond the other entrance . |
| 7 | About the age of 6 he wrote a book called ‘ Ways to the City Bright by the Rev. A. M. Ramsey ’ . |
| 8 | That is , the earliest craniate had a single median inhalant duct conveying water over the unpaired nasal sac on its way to the pharynx and gills . |
| 9 | We were both a little nervous as we made our way to the lighthouse past the palms , the palapas and the tantalising lagoon . |
| 10 | We made our way to the lighthouse , in full view of the temple , and dropped anchors . |
| 11 | It immediately finds its way to the surface and emerges to mate in the months of June , July or August . |
| 12 | What 's startling about 1986 is the manner in which the pop obsessions of self , want , luxury and aggression , have found their way to the surface of hip hop , with all the softer elements not germane to this violent push ruthlessly edited out . |
| 13 | Like all mammals , dolphins need air to live , and the first act of life of a newly-born dolphin is to find its way to the surface to breathe . |
| 14 | In a way , the three of them were like moles , digging their way to the surface looking for freedom , coincidentally at the same time that counter-culture was doing the same and searching for heroes . |
| 15 | The third , Vulcanian phase , also probably reflects this de-gassing process , with gas escaping from the magma below accumulating in the higher parts of the volcano , and then blasting its way to the surface . |
| 16 | Many of these mature offspring of the root form work their way to the surface and those which are winged fly off in search of new vines . |
| 17 | But as soon as it is dusk , the soil becomes alive with toads frantically digging their way to the surface . |
| 18 | This mallee fowl chick ( right ) has just hatched and fought its way to the surface through its mound . |
| 19 | This meal of horse might be compared to the draught of air that a drowning man who has fought his way to the surface manages to inhale before being whirled down into the depths again . |
| 20 | Gradually the impulse which had taken him over to the wood , the instinct which had urged him to a resolution , worked its way to the surface . |
| 21 | It certainly seems likely that the interior of the Earth has been hot enough for most of any deeply buried volatiles to have found their way to the surface , particularly if convection extends throughout the mantle . |
| 22 | A single toe , the big one , had fought its way to the surface to gaze at the world like a yellow ivory eye . |
| 23 | Will he draw attention to the National Coal Board 's policy of closing pits , because when a pit is closed not only is low-sulphur coal lost in many cases , but the methane is then allowed to find its way to the surface ? |
| 24 | Example continued It 's not until 1992 that the giant wakes up and tries to dig his way to the surface . |
| 25 | ‘ In the last few minutes one of the party of missing students — ’ Kath let out her breath on a gust ‘ — has made his way to the surface , and he has told us that there are still two men trapped below here , ’ he announced in the earnest voice of sepulchral doom so favoured by reporters at the scene of an incident . |
| 26 | When they had recovered a little and pain had given way to the peace of knowing that God was involved in the venture , John Wimber made a further suggestion . |
| 27 | The Bohr atom was just a staging post on the way to the quantum world rather than the point of entry into the land itself . |
| 28 | ‘ I object to the way you 've dressed like someone from the pages of a Dickensian workhouse and turned up with your belongings in carrier bags as if you 're on your way to the laundromat . ’ |
| 29 | In a private wood on the way to the trunk-road |
| 30 | ‘ Sure , Fred , ’ she said and hurried past on her way to the dressing room . |