Example sentences of "have [verb] [prep] a way of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Segmentation may have developed as a way of enabling worms to increase their efficiency as burrowers in mud . |
| 2 | Their heavy armour-plating may have originated as a way of disposing of the salts derived from their food which accumulated in their bodies . |
| 3 | And its leaders , with precious little to show for 40 years of economic folly , may see the nuclear crisis they have provoked as a way of taking minds off empty stomachs . |
| 4 | But if it 's done as a way of accelerating the child 's development , in order , as it were , to give it the edge over its peers , that does n't seem to me to suggest a relationship in which parent and child are enjoying each other ; it is much more a relationship in which the child is being prepared for competition with its peers and this , I feel , probably is going to turn out badly , because almost inevitably the child will not reach the levels that the parent has build up in fantasy in its own mind . |
| 5 | But if it 's done as a way of accelerating the child 's development , in order , as it were , to give it the edge over its peers , that does n't seem to me to suggest a relationship in which parent and child are enjoying each other ; it is much more a relationship in which the child is being prepared for competition with its peers and this , I feel , probably is going to turn out badly , because almost inevitably the child will not reach the levels that the parent has build up in fantasy in its own mind . |
| 6 | But even back then in that golden age for the company , there were early forerunners of the devastating failures that have turned into a way of dismal life from the dawn of the 1980s . |