Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [verb] the way " in BNC.
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| 1 | She must be careful to betray it as little as possible if the interview were to go the way she wanted . |
| 2 | Artillery was to prepare the way for the infantry assault ; the cavalry was to provide reconnaissance , occasional shock intervention in the battle if circumstances were favourable , and , it was hoped , effective pursuit of the defeated enemy . |
| 3 | The overall purpose of the study was to examine the way in which familial child sexual abuse was identified and responded to by social workers and police officers in the early investigative stage . |
| 4 | Stuart 's Mum was reversing out of her space and her car was blocking the way . |
| 5 | But TV 's main effect was to change the way in which people used their papers , more than to reduce their use . |
| 6 | The intention of the work was to interrogate the way in which pictures of my past , of my mother and myself as a baby or with my brothers and sisters , excluded and included certain stereotypes , perceptions and ideals and how this mediated my own experiences within a non-represented area — having a premature and sick baby . |
| 7 | It therefore appears that in the first experiment a match between parts of the superficial representation of the passage was influencing the way that a deep anaphor , the pronoun they , was processed . |
| 8 | The war was going the way of neither side . |
| 9 | Sanskrit , an extremely terse language used in scientific treatises , whose purpose was to clear the way for unambiguous expression without redundancy or obscurity . |
| 10 | Nobody could doubt that the applications made by the applicant to the district judge were applications in a criminal cause , for their purpose was to determine the way in which the prosecution should proceed . |
| 11 | The central task of the FMI was to alter the way in which decisions are made about public expenditure , particularly through the creation of line management responsibility . |
| 12 | Although the nineteenth century had seen almost all restrictions on Catholics removed , the loyalists of Ulster still believed that to accept the authority of the Pope was to open the way to papal domination and the erosion of civil liberty . |
| 13 | This morning I observed all of them returning home in single file after their dawn patrol around the valley and as usual mother was leading the way with father in the middle keeping the unruly youngsters in hand . |