Example sentences of "[noun] have [art] way " in BNC.

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1 The reader of the Chinese text has no way of knowing , from this title , whether China has one or more than one panda reserve .
2 KITCHENS SINGER Patrick Fitzgerald has a way with egotistical comments : ‘ Our tour manager 's fallen right down-to-earth , ’ he beams at one point during tonight 's proceedings .
3 If utilitarianism has no way of making equity matter , it does not follow that equity is unimportant or insignificant .
4 Football has a way of kicking you down like that .
5 Those dark eyes had a way of burning into her .
6 Mrs Blakey had a way of saying , annoying Stephen because of the implication that everything they did had to be done together .
7 If the standard of excellence is reasonably clear , the parties have no way of knowing that their claims may not fall before the higher social goal of maximizing perfection .
8 Although groin guards are mandatory for all male competitors , referees have no way of checking that they are being worn .
9 Like other human institutions , restaurants have a way of staying the same after all manner of changes — of menu , chef , management , even premises .
10 1 ) The desirability to have a Partner in Residence in Scotland has a way of enabling meaningful contact to be made between supporters here and Partners overseas .
11 ‘ Your guess is as good as mine , but fate has a way of doing unexpected things . ’
12 Ken , of course , was n't ill , but the management had no way of knowing .
13 The girl had a way of looking at her as if she could read her mind and Ida did n't like it .
14 As yet , the robot has no way of knowing whereabouts its gripper will be , when its joints are set at particular angles .
15 The old , old fashion — Death ! ( 4 ) Oh thank GOD , all who see it , for that older fashion yet , of immortality ! ( 5 ) And look upon us , angels of young children , with regards not quite estranged , when the swift river bears us to the ocean ! ( 6 ) At such points Dickens has a way of enlarging his theme beyond the narrative pretext , addressing his readers directly as sharers of a common human lot with himself and his characters .
16 On such occasions it often seems foolish to intervene , for nature has a way of eliminating stragglers .
17 This makes recovery , especially from word initial errors , extremely difficult , since the matching process has no way of realigning itself correctly with the input .
18 Stephen had a way of getting what he wanted from people and then moving rapidly on .
19 And he also suggests that simply policing budgets will not solve the problem either , since the basic motivation is not undermined and , in the absence of market mechanisms , financial monitors have no way of knowing when the waste has actually been eliminated .
20 This means that the sample has no way of dissipating a large applied stress , other than by bond rupture , and so a polymer glass is prone to brittle fracture .
21 It was strange how Hank had a way of withdrawing from one 's company at times , just as if he had forgotten one was there .
22 Important factors were : Farmers had no way of knowing or discovering that the seed was defective .
23 This was no doubt because Read had a way of writing about Abstract Art in his own highly abstract manner , so that abstraction was further compounded .
24 Hopes and dreams had a way of evaporating .
25 It may be necessary to advertise but it is my experience that relatives have a way of surfacing after a death . ’
26 ‘ These things have a way of working down . ’
27 So the group at Shepherd 's Bush has a way to go before some of them might be deemed fit to audition there or at other vocational schools .
28 But bad news has a way of travelling . "
29 God has a way on retreats such as this of bringing home to us the challenge of a first-order question : ‘ Do you love me in the way Mary loved me and allowed herself to be used for my mission ? ’
30 as if that were n't discomfort enough , you also have to make heroic efforts to stifle your giggles at the Old Fire Station , Oxford , for Miss Miles has a way of coming up with lines that are almost sublime in their ridiculousness .
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