Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [prep] the way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paul Jenkins , of the National Occupational Hygiene Service charity , has said that ‘ Court cases over passive smoking are on the way . |
| 2 | The Steam Tank is an unstoppable mass of metal , and it does not halt simply because enemy are in the way ! |
| 3 | Where the present study differs from this previous research is in the way it develops from a comparison of alternative versions of the same story . |
| 4 | This chapter is about the way in which the existing predicament of teachers leads them to become stressed , and it is also about whether stress is inevitable in such circumstances or not . |
| 5 | This chapter is about the way one part of the brain communicates with a different part of the brain . |
| 6 | Er and this this case the there was a fire in a flat , the chap had gone out to work , we did n't know he 'd gone out to work , so we broke First of all we informed the fire brigade was on the way , we broke down the door , quick look in the flat , best possible way we could look , and the fire brigade turned up and dealt with the flat . |
| 7 | But in England the financial department was on the way to becoming a formal institution . |
| 8 | WRAP IT UP : This Mars bar is on the way out |
| 9 | Another impact of new technology at work is in the way in which products are manufactured . |
| 10 | Roll the window down just enough to make yourself heard and tell them help is on the way . |
| 11 | A PAY squeeze on the public sector is on the way , Chancellor Lamont warned last night . |
| 12 | The decision to team up with former colleagues from Teesside and South Wales means the campaign is on the way to becoming nationwide . |
| 13 | ‘ The mill 's on the way out . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | But the problem was n't even helped there because you see he could n't get up the stairs easily , because the wardrobe was in the way . |
| 16 | I got my first into the sea close off Sliema and the second was on the way out some miles further out and he went in without a top wing . |
| 17 | Jack had married the daughter of the Westward family , as unlikely a match as was ever known in the country , but necessary since a child was on the way . |
| 18 | The reports drifting out of Baghdad suggest that an accord of some sort is on the way . |
| 19 | Sam 's business acumen , now even more sharpened , concentrated on further expansion ( Imperial Chemicals , take warning — a take-over is on the way ) . |
| 20 | The difference is in the way money changes hands . |
| 21 | Moving furniture is always a sign that a move is on the way . |
| 22 | ‘ The economic circumstances are right and recovery is on the way . |
| 23 | ‘ There is n't a single economic indicator which suggests that a recovery is on the way . |
| 24 | A Downing Street co-ordinated series of ‘ good news ’ announcements is expected to follow the Budget , to sustain momentum behind the Government 's message that recovery is on the way . |
| 25 | I ca n't see what Andy 's doing because the man 's body is in the way , but then Andy hits into him , bowling him backwards and he shouts and I wriggle away from them ; I scramble off through the ferns on all fours and then stop and look back and the man 's got Andy , he 's struggling with him , leaning over him , folding him , pressing him down , and Andy 's breathing hard , grunting , trying to break free . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | At first it went slowly , but in December Luch could tell the bees , warm in their straw wrappings , that an heir was on the way . |
| 28 | The other difference was in the way in which the association was organised . |
| 29 | By the end of 1922 the figure had jumped to a remarkable 155 , showing that recovery was on the way and economic activity increasing . |
| 30 | Mr. Major said the figures proved recovery was on the way . |