Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] a [adj] way of " in BNC.
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| 1 | An inventor has developed a high-flying way of scaring birds away from growing crops . |
| 2 | ONE type of wild potato has developed a novel way of protecting itself from the ravages of aphids — by producing the chemical that aphids themselves use as an alarm signal . |
| 3 | ICI has introduced a new way of recycling toxic waste by processing it through seven reed beds planted next to one of Europe 's largest chemical plants at Billingham , Teeside . |
| 4 | A car enthusiast has found a new way of making money out of Minis … he 's turning them into furniture . |
| 5 | A car enthusiast has found a new way of making money out of Minis … he 's turning them into furniture.He 's making sofas which he calls driving seats … and they 're selling all over the world.Richard Barnett reports : |
| 6 | ICI has found a successful way of dealing with this waste without causing any harm to the public in the form of emissions from incineration , so perhaps there is good news to come . |
| 7 | Meanwhile over at The Theatre in Chipping Norton Mother Goose has found a novel way of beating the recession . |
| 8 | Although this technique was originally introduced to investigate the relevance of linear stability theory , it has proved a useful way of controlling flow development and ensuring that the same features are to be observed repeatedly at the same place . |
| 9 | As well as giving nutrition information in a form which complies with the EC Directive , Sainsbury 's has devised a simple way of highlighting some of the more important attributes of its own label products . |
| 10 | Whether in its truest sense — the sale of state-owned assets — or the conversion of ownership from an institution 's members to a new breed of shareholders , privatisation has made profiteering a respectable way of life . |
| 11 | ‘ How you must be wishing you 'd chosen a different way of doing things . ’ |
| 12 | If you 're taking a holiday more than a three-hour drive from here , he thought , I 'll have to find a different way of doing this . |
| 13 | ‘ It was quite appalling and , had we known it was going to happen , I 'm certain we would have found a different way of dealing with our problem . ’ |
| 14 | To Henry it may well have seemed a sensible way of killing two birds with one stone — chastising rebels and at the same time providing his warlike second son with useful experience . |
| 15 | A trainer may frequently have to change a preconceived way of educating a horse to avoid some problem or bad habit that he or she ‘ senses ’ will arise . |
| 16 | But they vary considerably in their anatomy and , as is often the case when considering the simpler members of a group , it is sometimes difficult to decide whether a characteristic represents a truly primitive survival or is secondarily reduced to suit a particular way of life . |
| 17 | While the criticisms outlined above do not obviate the necessity of some nativistic assumptions , they do suggest a different way of addressing the problem . |
| 18 | Goldthorpe and his team ( 1969 ) wanted to study manual workers with high incomes to see whether they had developed a middle-class way of life . |
| 19 | ‘ You 've got a nasty way of expressing yourself , d' you know that ? |
| 20 | You 've got a funny way of going on , I must say . |
| 21 | EVERY now and again , just when flower arranging has begun to seem a reasonable way of spending Saturday afternoons , the game produces something which restores the faith . |
| 22 | Doctors claim they 've found a new way of treating breast cancer which could save thousands of lives . |
| 23 | ‘ He does have a natural way of dealing with young people . |
| 24 | The working-class youth had inherited a traditional way of watching a match , |
| 25 | She had learned a fine way of sustaining the role of deprivation , but gratitude was an emotion beyond her range . |
| 26 | Sabat and Harré have recognized these problems and begun to construct a meaningful way of generating answers . |
| 27 | Tory rebels believe they have found a legal way of spoking the wheels of the bill 's passage by calling for a judicial review of the constitutional implications of the European Communities ( Amendment ) Bill , which today enters its 18th day in the Commons . |
| 28 | TV 'S Bread stars Jean Boht and Jonathon Morris have found a new way of earning a crust — on stage together . |
| 29 | STATE canteens in Chuvashia , central Russia , have found a novel way of stopping guests stealing the spoons . |
| 30 | But for more complicated molecules we need to have a systematic way of working out how many of the molecular vibrations will be active . |