Example sentences of "in the way of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What else used to go on in there in the way of activities you mentioned billiards and card games and dancing ? |
| 2 | Some of the people looked as if they had been torn apart by animals with more in the way of teeth and claws than the Good Lord intended for them to have . |
| 3 | Now , are you on anything in the way of tablets that could be upsetting your , your system at all ? |
| 4 | Now what are you on in the way of tablets , Cathy ? |
| 5 | The traditional bourgeois ethic , puritan or secular , had ascribed this to moral or spiritual feebleness rather than to lack of intellect , for it was evident that not much in the way of brains was needed for success in business , and conversely that mere brains did not guarantee wealth and still less ‘ sound ’ views . |
| 6 | A higher test , namely that ‘ nothing in the way of smells was a nuisance to public health unless it so nauseated the smeller that he vomited ’ was rejected . |
| 7 | A pushchair for the smallest one , a bag of shopping , a handbag which carries more in the way of pins , wipes and sweets as bribes than it does personal possessions . |
| 8 | Teachers from non-project schools are as influential ( or more influential ) on the panel than are those from project schools , and there seems little in the way of visits made to successful project schools to observe good practice . |
| 9 | It is generally true that if organisations try to set up such functions in-house , they are unlikely to keep and retain the best people ; thus there is always a gulf between the in-house employees and their performance and what can be obtained in the way of services by using external consultants to undertake the job . |
| 10 | One of the features of change was the emergence of a unique landscape along the coast , on the riverside and in the countryside : ‘ a makeshift world of shacks and shanties , scattered unevenly in plots of varying size and shape , with unmade roads and little in the way of services ’ ( Hardy and Ward . |
| 11 | Yet many small and medium companies can not give very much in the way of resources and may be in need of a great deal for themselves . |
| 12 | On the whole , DOS spreadsheets perform faster and need less in the way of resources to work properly — but that 's because they do n't do very much with those resources until you start to use the graphics facilities they offer . |
| 13 | The external appearance might be considered typically Japanese — matt black folded steel case , drum feet , extruded black anodized aluminium front panel — yet one pauses : perhaps it has rather less in the way of lights , button and switches than usual . |
| 14 | ‘ It was a bit unusual then and there was very little help in the way of nurseries or creches . |
| 15 | There has n't been much movement in the way of players this season , but two Senior One teams — Lisnagarvey and Mossley — have new coaches . |
| 16 | So what was going on in the way of entertainments and things like that when you came to ? |
| 17 | If we really knew what caused actual cases of electrical breakdown or even simple cracking in plastic articles , we might save much frustration , and economic waste in the way of articles sent back . |
| 18 | There can be little doubt as to what in the way of topics and register the Host expects in the Monk 's Tale ; he concludes his observations on Melibee with : and continues with a description of the Monk that matches with the impression " Chaucer " claims to have of the Monk in the General Prologue , of a " " manly man " " , straining at the bounds of what is allowed to a monk ( and not dissimilar to the monk of the Shipman 's Tale ) : After nearly a hundred stanzas of the Monk 's tragedies , the Host is prepared to give him a second chance , as " Chaucer " had , but feels this time he has to be more specific as to what is wanted : But as soon as the Monk speaks we have the opportunity to see , firstly , that his reaction does not suggest he is flattered or pleased by the Host 's appraisal of him , and secondly that he sounds quite different from the bold and thrusting " man 's man " that " Chaucer " and the Host would make of him : Note how the Monk 's desire to offer literature that " " sowneth into honestee " " anticipates Chaucer the prosist 's retraction of the tales " " that sownen into synne " " . |
| 19 | Further to that supplementary question , will the Minister also have a word with the planners about hotel accommodation , especially in the County Antrim area , and find out why so many obstacles are being put in the way of hoteliers who want to improve their facilities ? |
| 20 | Did you have anything in the way of holidays erm , was there a sort of works ' holiday or any works ' outings while you were there ? |
| 21 | Nevertheless , some teachers claimed that the appraisal had produced little in the way of changes and some had difficulty in remembering quite what the adviser had proposed at their own feedback session . |
| 22 | The present position , then , is that institutional autonomy is still such that there are no serious external constraints in the way of students ' right to learn . |
| 23 | I had already written to them about you , in guarded terms , and their lack of response to my enthusiasms in the way of friends never discouraged me . |
| 24 | I was n't with the Company any more and Arnie did n't have much in the way of friends left in DC so … |
| 25 | The outside surfaces lying on the stress-path between the grips were , of course , fully stressed and no doubt contained all manner of iniquities in the way of scratches and stress concentrations . |
| 26 | The Apprentices , marshalled early , were allowed no encumbrances in the way of umbrellas or overcoats . |
| 27 | Bodie went on , ‘ Nothing in the way of prints , except Stone and his missus . |
| 28 | Shot and shell rained in on the village , orchard and chateau grounds , tearing up the earth , smashing roofs and rafters , but causing little in the way of casualties . |
| 29 | To the game itself : the first half was poor with little in the way of chances to either side . |
| 30 | Not much in the way of frills and colour co-ordination either . |