Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [prep] the way [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in England the financial department was on the way to becoming a formal institution . |
| 2 | Now although the only known brother of Æthelred named Edmund died in the early 970s , when Thietmar of Merseburg describes events in England in 1016 he tells how , after a battle in which Edmund was killed , the Danes fled from before London because they had heard that help was on the way from Edmund 's brother Æthelstan and the Britannis . |
| 3 | There is a possibility that minister here refers to Ealdhun and that Offa was angered because Ealdhun had given his lands to Christ Church , Canterbury , without King Ecgberht 's permission , but even if this were the case , it is clear that Offa 's reaction was to the way in which Ecgberht also had made grants of land without his permission ; he revoked both Ealdhun 's donations and Ecgberht 's , not only to Canterbury but to Rochester . |
| 4 | The other difference was in the way in which the association was organised . |
| 5 | MORE rain was on the way to much of Britain yesterday just hours after parts of Scotland and northern England finished clearing up after floods and snowfalls . |
| 6 | The evidence was of the way in which the rocks of the oceanic crust are magnetized ; it 's not the kind of thing that one comes across every day , so it will take a bit of explaining . |
| 7 | Barrister David Ashton , acting for the liquidators of the Isle of Man Savings and Investment Bank , told the court that good news was on the way for the mostly small depositors , many of whom lost their life savings when the Douglas-based bank collapsed seven years ago . |
| 8 | Just as their main interest was in the ways of life of people as seen by the people themselves , so they tried to get a sense of the past into their work by using life-histories . |