Example sentences of "[pron] have [verb] a way of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said that if I was going to get into the guitar business , I 'd got to make a highly precision piece — I could n't live with a 32nd or 16th of an inch tolerance and then have some old violin maker filling up the gap with plastic wood , or just leaving a huge crack around the joint as some people do , I had to find a way of making precision wood parts . |
| 2 | I said that if I was going to get into the guitar business , I 'd got to make a highly precision piece — I could n't live with a 32nd or 16th of an inch tolerance and then have some old violin maker filling up the gap with plastic wood , or just leaving a huge crack around the joint as some people do , I had to find a way of making precision wood parts . |
| 3 | ‘ I think I 've got a way of making it taste a little less foul this year , ’ said Jack Nopps one Christmas . |
| 4 | Not unless someone had discovered a way of reviving someone who had lost most of his brain matter and half of his skull . |
| 5 | I have suggested a way of learning which uses the skills of both the teacher and the trained nurse in the clinical environment , working together to improve patient care . |
| 6 | He spoke like a child who 'd found a way of handing over a responsibility to its parents . |
| 7 | So you 've got a way of analysing behaviour and what that leads you into is the ability to manipulate the consequences of certain behaviour , okay ? |
| 8 | Well that bit if you like , but , if you like , your accent he 's after , so if you feel that you 've got a way of describing your accent , then put it down there . |
| 9 | ‘ Are you telling us that you have found a way of teaching animals to talk ? ’ |
| 10 | If you have a 286 or 386 then you have to find a way of converting the natural extended memory to expanded . |
| 11 | On top of this , no one has developed a way of controlling heat pumps with microprocessors . |
| 12 | Manchester Computing Centre is used to coping with multi-volume files , but a further problem arose when the file was too large to fit onto one of our backup cartridges ; as no one had ever needed to copy a file that large on to cartridge before , we had to devise a way of splitting it between two cartridges . |
| 13 | We had to find a way of convincing ourselves that any move , no move , any news , no news , good treatment , bad treatment were all indicative of imminent release . |
| 14 | Finding the younger children schools took up all our time to begin with , and then we had to find a way of surviving . |
| 15 | We had to find a way of reducing those change-over times by between 75 and 90% and to make the change stick . |
| 16 | If the nation is to create the jobs necessary to reduce the unemployment list rapidly , we have to find a way of creating or expanding service industries without the need for their dependence on the existing producing industries . |
| 17 | We have to find a way of working together , and it would be a lot less wearing , do n't you think , if we could do so amicably ? ’ |
| 18 | I mean personally I think one of the difficulties in the colleges is that they do still have a sense of being at schools , and when you have an atmosphere which is like school you 're tacitly given people permission to act as if they were at school , and so we have a and that activity may not always be very adult , so we have to find a way of changing the environment of the colleges . |
| 19 | They 've got a way of measuring wear on er stretchers |
| 20 | So what they 've done is they 've picked a way of doing but they kept chopping and changing the way they 've been doing that all the time . |
| 21 | They had to find a way of drawing Nadirpur out . |
| 22 | This profession , which most members had come to brimming with conviction that they had found a way of linking their idealism to an honourable way of earning a living , has been devastated by continuous attack from the media . |
| 23 | They have to find a way of expressing their confidence that God reveals Himself through His activity in the world , without making Him into a person like ourselves . |
| 24 | Sociologists are only too well aware that ideas arise in particular social climates and contexts , and yet they have to seek a way of standing apart from society and analysing it objectively . |
| 25 | They have provided a way of life for generations of mudlarks living close to the tidal foreshores of the Thames and the Medway . |
| 26 | First , he has devised a way of buying the ground at less than half price . |
| 27 | There is even an echo of the testing time of his twelfth year in the fourth book in the sequence , The Betrayer , when he has to find a way of helping one of the Confederates , involved in a misguided conspiracy against the young Emperor , without being disloyal to his ruler . |
| 28 | Moreover the interpreter of a text has to make a decision on the relative importance of the different elements in a work , and he has to find a way of relating these elements to one another . |
| 29 | It is a cliche to say that it has become a way of life , and that the stone-throwing is only the public , propaganda face of a whole political , social , economic and psychological transformation — the Palestinians ' own perestroika — which both sustains the Intifada and lays the groundwork for the eventual transition to statehood . |
| 30 | However , the shame is that for some health service insiders it has become a way of life . |