Example sentences of "[vb pp] a way of " in BNC.
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| 1 | So what they 've done is they 've picked a way of doing but they kept chopping and changing the way they 've been doing that all the time . |
| 2 | So the man needed a way of showing how wealthy he was , and he did that by having a large house , by having lots of servants , and also by dressing his wife , I mean by having a wife who did n't have to work , who could stay at home , and wore clothes to show this , so you get the beginning of incredibly impractical clothes which showed that the woman obviously did n't do any work , because it was completely impossible to do any . |
| 3 | ‘ I think I 've got a way of making it taste a little less foul this year , ’ said Jack Nopps one Christmas . |
| 4 | So you 've got a way of analysing behaviour and what that leads you into is the ability to manipulate the consequences of certain behaviour , okay ? |
| 5 | They 've got a way of measuring wear on er stretchers |
| 6 | Well that bit if you like , but , if you like , your accent he 's after , so if you feel that you 've got a way of describing your accent , then put it down there . |
| 7 | But he had not yet mastered a way of putting it into words . |
| 8 | On top of this , no one has developed a way of controlling heat pumps with microprocessors . |
| 9 | ENGINEERS in the US have developed a way of cramming two television programmes into a single cable channel . |
| 10 | All reptile eggs contain a considerable amount of yolk in them , but many of these live-bearing reptiles have developed a way of supplementing it . |
| 11 | I find that only eggs on the outside of the mass are likely to hatch , and have developed a way of maximising the hatching rate . |
| 12 | Madeleine , now she was in France , had developed a way of sighing , bringing her hands up to clasp the back of her neck , then breathing out explosively . |
| 13 | Perhaps that foul seductress had developed a way of doing it absolutely noiselessly , and without movement . |
| 14 | German scientists have developed a way of using carbon dioxide rather than water as a medium for dyeing materials . |
| 15 | Researchers at the National Grid Company 's technology and science division have developed a way of destroying the PCBs while the transformer remains in operation . |
| 16 | A Tewkesbury firm has developed a way of engraving both the customer 's photo and signature onto the card . |
| 17 | It is a cliche to say that it has become a way of life , and that the stone-throwing is only the public , propaganda face of a whole political , social , economic and psychological transformation — the Palestinians ' own perestroika — which both sustains the Intifada and lays the groundwork for the eventual transition to statehood . |
| 18 | However , the shame is that for some health service insiders it has become a way of life . |
| 19 | It has become a way of life for you . |
| 20 | ‘ It has become a way of life for me here — but it must be unsettling to the players . |
| 21 | But at least for a little while Mama would be happy , and keeping Mama happy had become a way of life , almost . |
| 22 | ‘ I have been leading scorer at Boro for five out of the last seven seasons — but it has become a way of life to be talked about as the player who is leaving or out of the team . |
| 23 | 1985 : The BPI admit that home-taping has become a way of life and produces a booklet that estimates some 466 million hours of music were taped in the home during 1983 alone . |
| 24 | In most of the prisons , corruption has become a way of life and inmates believe that without taking recourse to corrupt practices they can not cope with the culture that prevails . |
| 25 | They , for their part , attempt to justify their actions to each other , hypocrisy apparently continuing by habit , having become a way of life ( since there is no one on-stage whom they need to deceive , perhaps they have come to believe their own lies ) : The truth is transparent , however ; indeed , when Gloucester reports that the king is leaving , Goneril says , ‘ My Lord , entreat him by no means to stay ’ ( 301 ) . |
| 26 | Jazz had become a way of life for her . |
| 27 | I do n't know which is most unlikely , but after studying in Louisiana , and spending a ghastly summer and a magical Christmas in New York , I have been savagely bitten by the travel bug , while writing the novel has become a way of life . ’ |
| 28 | Barter has become a way of life . |
| 29 | Within this context he also criticized families for whom welfare assistance had become a way of life . |
| 30 | All night rave parties involving music and dancing have become a way of life for a large section of young people . |