Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] the way [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One motorist who was stopped on the way to Bushmills said : ‘ The police were pulling in cars and coaches and taking teenagers out and searching them and the vehicles . |
| 2 | When I say that er the existing bonus structure er although unrelated to time , was certainly related to the man 's pay packet and it was given in the way of an advice note with each job , and a price attached to it . |
| 3 | The campaign of the Conservative candidate , Richard Hickmet , was criticized for the way in which it dwelt on the controversial claim that it would be a " moral victory for terrorism " if the seat were to change hands as a result of the killing of Gow . |
| 4 | which have been relevant there and the political factors during the Japanese war , the a need to form a united front , a need to moderate policy and then , over the course of nineteen forty six , forty seven , the need to move in a more radical direction , to go back to land reform and , and land reform a scale in terms of absolute egalitarianism because that was seen as the way of , of mobilizing mass peasant support , particularly amongst the poor , most quickly . |
| 5 | In the last section reference was made to the way in which the Unemployment Assistance Board , which was renamed the Assistance Board in 1940 , took over various functions from the public assistance committees in the early part of the war . |
| 6 | This withering criticism of the youth of the nation was reflected by the way in which all manner of novel terms — the ‘ mixed-up teenagers ’ , the ‘ wild ones ’ , the ‘ rebels without a cause ’ — entered into common usage in the 1950s , conveying the feeling that young people were somehow more radically unintelligible to older people than at any previous time in history . |
| 7 | In the early days , SCOTVEC and the unions discussed their difference of views on this issue and an agreement was reached on the way in which the validation criteria would be interpreted . |
| 8 | If you knew what the lecturer controlling your studies was to do in the way of arranging these in a particular order , you could make a skeleton in linear form , one heading following another and falling into a hierarchy of importance . |
| 9 | Thou hast been ‘ the cloud ’ before me from the day that I left the flesh-pots of Egypt , and was led through the way of the wilderness — the cloud that hast been guiding me to a land flowing with milk and honey — the milk of innocence , the honey of friendship ! |
| 10 | He was struck by the way in which Muni had depicted the suffering , the bewilderment , and the anger of a simple man , by the way in which the atmosphere and pressures of a strike-bound community had been created , and above all by the reality of the violence , which was a thing ‘ that shrieks along a man 's nerves and settles in his stomach ’ . |
| 11 | I must admit I was struck by the way in which the debate was discussed . |
| 12 | For the first fifteen years or so of its existence , little was published in the way of critical assessment of the Urban Programme . |