Example sentences of "[vb past] a way of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The objectives in Parts 1 and 2 provided a way of thinking about behavioural problems and a set of general methods for dealing with these problems . |
| 2 | It also indicated the slave trade as a peculiarly appropriate object upon which many evangelicals could exercise their benevolence since it constituted a burden of individual and national guilt and in its international character provided a way of extending and giving reality to the notion of mankind as a family . |
| 3 | This model provided a way of visualizing the pattern of morphogenetic systems over the earth 's surface during the Cainozoic and so lent itself to a clear way of integrating contemporary world zones with those of the past when ice sheets were non-existent or much less extensive . |
| 4 | For some Protestant thinkers , experimental science promised a way of reversing the effects of the original curse , a way of making a better world that might in some small way mirror the perfection of God 's heavenly kingdom , a way of restoring the world to a condition fit for Christ 's earthly rule . |
| 5 | Wolff originally described a way of learning CFGs . |
| 6 | Let herself go a bit — ye get that with women whose men are giving them a hard time , and who hav'na found a way of getting their retaliation in first . ’ |
| 7 | Actually Jacobi 's work went rather further than that , for he also found a way of calculating the number of expressions as sums of at most six or eight squares . |
| 8 | So she schemed until she found a way of having the second thing without losing the first . |
| 9 | In that year the German chemist Friedrich Wohler ( 1800–92 ) found a way of producing from inorganic materials the chemical urea ; always beforehand this had been assumed to be a substance that could be produced only by bodily ( biochemical ) reactions . |
| 10 | One branch of the molluscs , very early in the group 's history , found a way of becoming highly mobile and yet retaining the protection of a large and heavy shell — they developed gas-filled flotation tanks . |
| 11 | When Timothy Amsterdam returned from Europe he soon found a way of meeting Topaz on the Moor . |
| 12 | For instance , after extensive consultation with the community , health workers found a way of overcoming people 's reluctance to use rehydration salts . |
| 13 | On their third night she ordered him quite roughly to bring his legs closer together and found a way of rubbing herself against his knee while sucking at his neck that made him shudder . |
| 14 | ‘ I think my subconscious found a way of telling me a bit of what happened , Dr Vaughan . ’ |
| 15 | A lot of these were books written by moralistic females ; books which erm reflected various kinds of Victorian ideas , and much later on when I did some research in Oxford on Victorian literature I found a way of putting these two sorts of things together . |
| 16 | For Thompson , living with the knee became a way of life . |
| 17 | It became a way of Leicester life . |
| 18 | ‘ Rather Red than Dead ’ became its slogan , and protest marches from Aldermaston Atomic Weapons Research Establishment to Westminster became a way of life for many church-goers , left-wing intellectuals , pacifists and liberal moralists . |
| 19 | An underground , ‘ black ’ economy was allowed to flourish as a substitute for politically indigestible reforms , with the result that corruption became a way of life . |
| 20 | The Incarnation became a way of instructing the poor and ignorant in truths long since grasped by the wise and philosophically educated ! |
| 21 | Sex became a way of life , a way of bonding and learning , and Jarman rapidly rose to the pinnacle of sexual and social acceptance . |
| 22 | Wooding , as it was called , became a way of life . |
| 23 | Factions sprang up at court and intrigue , always a dangerous pastime among the Elves , became a way of life for many . |
| 24 | But the regulation of sexual behaviour also became a way of policing the population at large , and this combination of factors is clearly manifest again in the social morality crusades of the nineteenth century . |
| 25 | And of course erm for some people it became a way of living , and just |
| 26 | Became a way of life for you |
| 27 | I would have thought it became a way of life ? |
| 28 | Moreover , throughout the 1980s , when opposition to European Federalism became closely associated with Margaret Thatcher , enthusiasm for Europe became a way of protesting against Conservative economic liberalisation . |
| 29 | The meeting closed with the presentation of floral arrangements to two Kent teachers , Hilda Lodge and Eleanor Pitman who had both started Medau in the early 50's as members of Dr. Anni Noll 's post-natal class and having enjoyed that introduction Medau became a way of life and they both went on to quality as Medau teachers and have both taught continuously in the Kent area ever since . |
| 30 | Thus we agreed a way of phasing it in that reduced the cost of introduction but provided no disruption for those nearest retirement . |