Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun sg] on the way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Boy-scout amateurishness , they claim , is on the way out ; a professional command-and-control centre on the way in . |
| 2 | On that doleful Black Ship on the way to Earth years ago , Jaq had kissed a girl psyker . |
| 3 | You probably remember , erm , a stimulating little book published last year by Frank on the Impulse to Philanthropy , where certainly in his nineteenth century analysis of the growth of philanthropy , he saw to main things , evangelicalism , which er , meant that people were going out looking for converts , and therefore doing good social work on the way , and the growth of the women 's movement , in the sense that women otherwise unemployed were looking for a new area of activity to get into . |
| 4 | This has led both to exciting theoretical work on the processes underlying face recognition and useful practical work on the way faces are learned and what things affect the way witnesses to a crime remember the culprits . |
| 5 | An ad hoc Committee of the Select Committee carried out an inquiry into Staffing of Community Institutions and produced a report which received little public attention but had considerable long-term influence on the way in which the Community Institutions recruited and transferred its staff and on how the United Kingdom sought to obtain its proper share of senior posts . |
| 6 | In a few minutes they 'd left behind the head office of Chester Fabrics , driven past the fire-blackened fabric printing plant and escaped into the lush green countryside on the way back to Armscott Manor , the rambling Cotswold home of the Chesters for three generations . |
| 7 | There 's a nice little pub on the way back . ’ |