Example sentences of "was under way " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Home Office told Caterer & Hotelkeeper that consultation was under way on an amendment to the Fire Safety and Safety in Places of Sport Act 1987 , giving mandatory powers of re-inspection . |
| 2 | But war was under way again in southern Angola , the team faced obvious difficulties and had to rely on information from the Angolan government . |
| 3 | I spoke to one of the medics , he informed me that the attack on the village just along the road was under way and already there were many casualties , particularly among 6 Commando , due to the heavy shelling from the Allied and German guns . |
| 4 | In concluding his address , Sir Thomas said that while the Appeal was under way the Fund would continue to support welfare work in its usual fashion , recording that a cheque had earlier been presented to the Chairman of Conference for the Association 's Eagle Lodge project . |
| 5 | A few miles down the road , at the village of Sesfontein , a political rally was under way . |
| 6 | Mr Field has also written to Mr Rod Todd , general secretary of the TGWU , demanding an inquiry into the union 's branches on the Wirral , Merseyside , before the selection procedure was under way . |
| 7 | AN EMERGENCY airlift of flu vaccine from Europe was under way last night as stocks dwindled in Britain and the epidemic showed no sign of abating . |
| 8 | His Test debut came in the same match as Gordon Greenidge against India in 1973–4 , Greenidge totalling 200 runs and Richards 7 ; in the next game he made 192 not out and was under way . |
| 9 | Gooch and Robinson began carefully after Gower won the toss , but then Patterson got Robinson and the collapse was under way . |
| 10 | A famous one was dropping Ramadhin before the third Test in Australia and replacing him with Gibbs , whose Test career thus far had been fairly ordinary ; Gibbs took eight wickets in the match to see his team home and was under way as a real Test bowler . |
| 11 | A takeover was under way by the grey men and the only ones who survived it were the grey people . |
| 12 | While the building of this high-rise conservatory was under way , the Roberts tackled the garden below . |
| 13 | The search was under way for his successor , although Catford 's trawl was conducted in a distinctly courtly style : |
| 14 | Mr Major claimed yesterday that this was under way . |
| 15 | Two weeks later the Standard reported ‘ with gratification ’ that the erection of the clubhouse , was under way . |
| 16 | By March the Fleming Cup was under way , the eventual winner in June being the ubiquitous Ernest Fryer , the Managing Director of Henley Brewery and who also played at Peppard . |
| 17 | Initially , the immigrants provided too much competition for the aspiring local working class , as , coming from countries where the process of industrialisation was under way , they were able to use their knowledge and experience to seize the initiative in entrepreneurial activity . |
| 18 | On the following day , a sprinkling of ash fell over a wide area , and a great column of steam was seen rising above Krakatoa , leaving no doubt that a major eruption was under way . |
| 19 | Jerusalem had been in Arab hands since the seventh century and the Holy Sepulchre was empty , but such was the emotional fervour stirred up by Urban 's preachers that the First Crusade was launched and a new kind of ‘ holy war ’ was under way . |
| 20 | It was not officially recognised after 1955 , but by 1983 there were 3,000 of the breed , including 400 milk-recorded cows , and a successful conservation programme was under way . |
| 21 | The first day of each survey was crucial in sorting out minor problems for the interviewers which only came to be recognized once the fieldwork was under way . |
| 22 | ITEM : A television discussion was under way on the subject of comedy . |
| 23 | Parallel activity was under way , also behind the barriers of classification , in the United States and the Soviet Union . |
| 24 | In addition , the industrial revolution was under way and its accompanying drabness made people look back to more romantic ages . |
| 25 | A report had been received by his inspector that a discreet cull of the wild ducks on Hury Reservoir was under way . |
| 26 | In Ferrari terms , it was n't , and Niki should have smelled earlier that yet another Ferrari plot was under way , and without Montezemolo , his flanks were unprotected . |
| 27 | The animated debate amongst students and intellectuals before the Seventh National People 's Congress in April indicated that the anti-bourgeois campaign of 1987 was over and that a renewed period of liberalisation was under way . |
| 28 | A salvage operation was under way for the £6 million chopper . |
| 29 | Most writers agree that once the Civil War was under way , its outcome depended upon the manner in which , on the two sides , foreign aid and influence related to internal political and military considerations . |
| 30 | The job of central bankers would be easier if governments trimmed their budget deficits as soon as recovery was under way . |