Example sentences of "[be] [art] way of " in BNC.
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| 1 | That had been the way of things for several years . |
| 2 | Corruption has been the way of life for years with certain powerful people . |
| 3 | ‘ Churchyards are the way of nature , ’ she said , ‘ not like those Crems . |
| 4 | It 's convinced plants like this which it says will probably be the most advanced in Europe , are the way of the future : |
| 5 | Yes , I think that an insight feminists have had about soap operas , about the real contributions they make , is that they 're a way of starting conversations about important topics , either in the family or with colleagues at work or whatever . |
| 6 | And they 're a way of getting a lot a lot of things in a in a in a space . |
| 7 | She had been surprised in the end that her daughter had agreed to come , she had been so arbitrary and changeable lately , and there had been no way of knowing what would please her , and what bring out her bitter scornful sneer . |
| 8 | They had been a way of ‘ coasting ’ slightly , when I 'd run out of steam . |
| 9 | It had been a way of escaping from the poverty into which her family had sunk , and she knew that by working hard for long , tiring hours and helping Fred turn the mediocre business into one that was thriving and profitable she would one day be able to help her parents and her brother too . |
| 10 | Till now she 'd been able to cope , after a fashion ; even going dumb with terror had been a way of coping . |
| 11 | The argument of many feminists is that the myth of the objectivity of the physical sciences has been a way of legitimizing the abuse of knowledge within a patriarchal and capitalist framework . |
| 12 | HELPING other people has been a way of life for Vera Taylor who has retired from Capenhurst after almost 18 years . |
| 13 | For many years combined social activities and the celebration of prayer services with other Churches have been a way of life to the parishioners in SHOTTS . |
| 14 | We have already seen that this may simply have been a way of saying that Wulfstan had secured an undertaking that they were going to abandon practices which he found displeasing . |
| 15 | It would have been a way of criticising his regime which it was difficult to counter directly , and , in the short term perhaps most troublesome of all , it was possibly also a source of popular disorder . |
| 16 | This has also been a way of escaping from the serious clashes which historically have taken place between different Christian groups involved in education and which remain a distinct possibility in the multi-faith situation . |
| 17 | Essentially , these manoeuvres are a way of managing debt to take advantage of interest rate changes , but the council went way beyond debt management into pure financial speculation . |
| 18 | Rothstein argues that patron-client relationships are well suited to the peripheral capitalist development that has taken place in Latin America because they are a way of paring down the number of recipients of industrial gains , when these gains are few in number . |
| 19 | This is your room , hello , we 'll have to fix that bulb , may I ask you not to flush the toilet between the hours of eleven at night and seven in the morning while the sanitation department is still in , do n't be alarmed , cockroaches are a way of life in this part of the world , the gekkos are friendly too , although they wo n't eat the spiders . |
| 20 | Attitudes are a way of making sense of the world , of organising what we see and what we experience . |
| 21 | ( Martial arts are a way of life — skills learnt and practised over a long period , used to tune the mind and body to a state of superb readiness . |
| 22 | The arguments are a way of reinforcing the necessity for obedience . |
| 23 | The most important effect of street remarks , though , is that they are a way of controlling public space and defining women as intruders within it . |
| 24 | Like the ideologies of ruling groups , he argues that utopian ideologies are a way of seeing the world which prevents true insight and obscures reality . |
| 25 | Co-operative R&D ventures are a way of internalizing these spillovers ( eliminating the ability of rival firms to free ride on each other 's R&D ) , and can , therefore , be expected to increase total R&D activity . |
| 26 | Co-operative R&D ventures are interesting in this respect because they are a way of organizing the process of innovation which promises to minimize static inefficiencies without sacrificing dynamic efficiency . |
| 27 | On his daily visit to the laboratory to look at quality control tests on raw and processed materials , Graham added : ‘ Mills and sliphouses have never been the favourite areas of pottery factories — you either love or hate them — but for the likes of me they are a way of life . ’ |
| 28 | It seems to the Senior Management Team that the personal objectives of individual members of the department and institutional and departmental objectives are very largely congruent and that our recommendations are a way of achieving , we hope , both . |
| 29 | They are a way of saying , ‘ The world 's in pretty bad shape , Jesus , and pretty soon someone will come along and give us pain and suffering and woe . ’ ’ |
| 30 | Surveys are a way of life with an I B M. as they are in many companies today . |