Example sentences of "had [verb] [art] way " in BNC.
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| 31 | In many ways it was the currency reform and the severance of trade with Germany the following year that had paved the way for the military coup in Poland that installed Marshal Piłsudski as head of government in May 1926 . |
| 32 | Her riding ability had paved the way for her acceptance amongst the circles in which they now moved . |
| 33 | The approval in June of a referendum proposal abolishing prison sentences for conscientious objectors [ see p. 38299 ] had paved the way for civilian service to become a legally permissible alternative to military service . |
| 34 | His political troubles deepened at the weekend after conservatives had won a series of victories at an emergency session of the legislature , the Congress of People 's Deputies , which had paved the way for his powers to be curbed . |
| 35 | If a girl had exceeded the way she should behave I would send for her parents . |
| 36 | It had to be soon , it had to be quick , and so far he had seen no way of achieving it . |
| 37 | Unlike that gentle man she was neither shocked nor surprised because she had seen the way Tom Reynolds silently lusted after his employer 's wife ; she knew also that Esther was no better . |
| 38 | Travis turned away , but not before she had seen the way his face closed up . |
| 39 | Medieval travellers usually had to pick a way over boggy ground as they came off the hills . |
| 40 | After his initial gaffe that McQueen should own books , Johnson opened out to a man of culture , a man who understood his own problems and who had thought a way through them to a solution , however sad emigration might prove . |
| 41 | He frowned slightly and suddenly she longed to say something , to try and explain why she had acted the way she had . |
| 42 | He had had no way of knowing whether this was the truth , but the pattern of spurious intimacy had been established . |
| 43 | The collapse of the English plan had opened the way for the possibility of marriage within Scotland , to Arran 's son . |
| 44 | This theory had opened the way for Western physiologists to recognise that the anaesthetic effect of acupuncture might at least be possible . |
| 45 | He replied that it did seem strange to him too , but that at every stage God — as far as they could discern — had opened the way to do this . |
| 46 | This had opened the way for landlords to profit from the programme . |
| 47 | On July 23 China welcomed the US Senate 's 55 to 44 vote for the conditional renewal of MFN status , which had opened the way for a presidential veto . |
| 48 | In November 1990 Japan had opened the way for China 's international rehabilitation by lifting economic sanctions imposed in the aftermath of the crackdown [ see p.37859 ] . |
| 49 | Measures taken on Jan. 8 had opened the way to multiparty politics . |
| 50 | Jesus had shown the way back to God and had demonstrated in his own person that he was the Way , but men and women in order to return to God would need to freely join themselves to the new humanity of Christ . |
| 51 | As the penalty for this was death , and as John had affected the ways and dress of a Quaker , the bank manager , a Quaker himself , was somewhat loathe to bring charges . |
| 52 | does n't it come back to the issue of wh who they trustees are and who 's interest , given that trustees are expected to be independent , in the end , who 's interests do the trustees represent , because I 've had experience of working with a pension fund that was in massive surplus and the actualar actuaries refused to agree their final report until that surplus was dealt with , so that the trade unions and the employer through the trustees had to negotiate a way of spending that surplus and er given the pressures of the actuaries to say we were not allowed th the funds to continue unless you deal with this surplus , then it comes back to the issue of how the Board of Trustees is made up and if we accept that there is a degree of representation on that Board , then just exactly how that representation is divided . |
| 53 | But at least for a little while Mama would be happy , and keeping Mama happy had become a way of life , almost . |
| 54 | Jazz had become a way of life for her . |
| 55 | Within this context he also criticized families for whom welfare assistance had become a way of life . |
| 56 | Manchester Computing Centre is used to coping with multi-volume files , but a further problem arose when the file was too large to fit onto one of our backup cartridges ; as no one had ever needed to copy a file that large on to cartridge before , we had to devise a way of splitting it between two cartridges . |
| 57 | Maybe the reason I had Testified the way I did was a kind of double bhiff on Argol 's part . |
| 58 | Resisting the urge to rout the pair of them by denying in Italian as fluent as theirs that she was any such thing , Luce kept her face impassive until the other woman had disappeared the way she 'd come . |
| 59 | She was a jolly sort of girl but I do n't think our parents would have kept her if they had known the way she talked to us , and the things she told us . |
| 60 | So far he had found no way to resolve the conundrum facing him . |