Example sentences of "have [verb] [art] [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 Now , you 'll be pleased to learn , a Lincolnshire company has developed an inexpensive way of drastically reducing that particular hazard , as temporarily as necessary , for instance , while your children are young .
4 CRISIS has become an uncomfortable way of life for the National Health Service … racked by a row which is dominating all the others . ’
5 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 .
6 A car enthusiast has found a new way of making money out of Minis … he 's turning them into furniture .
7 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 :
8 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 .
9 Meanwhile over at The Theatre in Chipping Norton Mother Goose has found a novel way of beating the recession .
10 A taxi driver with a passion for art has found an original way of keeping his passengers amused .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 ( It 's true , of course , that Sir Fred Hoyle has been writing recently about Earthly plagues that have originated in space , but he has devised an ingenious way of converting this objection into a virtue .
14 ‘ How you must be wishing you 'd chosen a different way of doing things . ’
15 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 .
16 ‘ 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 . ’
17 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 .
18 This may have seemed an odd way of treating a friend , but if one knew Emily it would perhaps have caused no surprise .
19 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 .
20 Attempted suicide appears to have become an acceptable way of expressing distress among some people , and has therefore been likened to a fashion .
21 I mean , twenty years ago when the volume of work was n't so high as it now , then erm every police officer was doing that , but because time has marched on and problems have become more an more , erm we we tend to have left the traditional way of policing behind .
22 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 .
23 ‘ You 've got a nasty way of expressing yourself , d' you know that ?
24 You 've got a funny way of going on , I must say .
25 Skilled , semi-skilled , non-skilled workers see the different levels of of livelihood that you see to be measured on sort of thing and er therefore you 've got ta good way of representing this society as a whole have n't you .
26 Doctors claim they 've found a new way of treating breast cancer which could save thousands of lives .
27 It is as if , once they had found an effective way of surviving and reproducing , and a relatively stable environment in which to go about their business , there was little pressure to change their way of life .
28 The working-class youth had inherited a traditional way of watching a match ,
29 She had learned a fine way of sustaining the role of deprivation , but gratitude was an emotion beyond her range .
30 He had learnt the proper way of cleaning and boning Sir Dermot 's shoes and " doing " his lovely old clothes .
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