Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] a way of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Personally I thought the fears overdone , but nevertheless I sought to find a way of transferring the operation to the private sector which would minimize the risk of industrial action . |
| 2 | Where Elizabeth failed to find a way of reinventing the monarchy , Charles , a child of the television age , succeeded . |
| 3 | On top of this , no one has developed a way of controlling heat pumps with microprocessors . |
| 4 | A Tewkesbury firm has developed a way of engraving both the customer 's photo and signature onto the card . |
| 5 | So I think we have to do them , but I think it is very important that we do not erm , er talk to the , or communicate with the other member authorities in a way that looks as if this is Wiltshire saying , well we want to find a way of flogging off this asset without worrying about what happens to the future of the service . |
| 6 | In which case it has to find a way of lowering expectations of the public good , limiting damage by the pursuit of private interest , building a different notion of good citizenship and public virtue out of that private interest . |
| 7 | So , if the green lacewing larva is to enjoy a decent meal of woolly alder aphids , it has to find a way of avoiding being attacked by the ants . |
| 8 | There is even an echo of the testing time of his twelfth year in the fourth book in the sequence , The Betrayer , when he has to find a way of helping one of the Confederates , involved in a misguided conspiracy against the young Emperor , without being disloyal to his ruler . |
| 9 | Moreover the interpreter of a text has to make a decision on the relative importance of the different elements in a work , and he has to find a way of relating these elements to one another . |
| 10 | But in most situations , when you 'd be asking a colleague on the same staff to work with you , you 'll need to find a way of working that is not going to cause massive disruption to the school timetable , that 's not going to demand that the headteacher come and cover one of your classes while you 're busy with your investigation into the disappearance of the crew of the Marie Celeste . |
| 11 | Union leaders are meeting management tomorrow to try to find a way of softening the blow . |
| 12 | While one would have liked to have thought that the injustice of B's situation would of itself have been enough to persuade the Court of Appeal to strain to find a way of bringing it to an end , the Convention considerations ought to convince a future court that it has the duty to do so . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | However , the shame is that for some health service insiders it has become a way of life . |
| 15 | It has become a way of life for you . |
| 16 | ‘ It has become a way of life for me here — but it must be unsettling to the players . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . ’ |
| 21 | Barter has become a way of life . |
| 22 | Our civilization has at least this to its credit , he wrote , that it has found a way of rounding up this dishonest crap and incarcerating it in morgues , in fortified places with guards and alarm bells and the rest , thus keeping it off the streets , protecting decent citizens , and now , he wrote , there are even moves afoot to repel intruders by making them pay hard cash to enter these fortified places . |
| 23 | MATUSHITA of Japan has found a way of printing solar cell material directly onto a glass base . |
| 24 | Mary Denton has found a way of bringing her love of heraldry into an area of aviation whereby individuals can achieve a lasting , lovely — and above all else unique — mark of service . , . . |
| 25 | The Princess , uncomfortable with her Diana The Goddess image , has found a way of working that depends on a low-key approach , without cameras , excited crowds , and all the pressures the usual public engagement involves . |
| 26 | Miss Grimsilk has found a way of giving us something exciting and original at very little cost . |
| 27 | But none of my predecessors has found a way of introducing it here , ’ Mr Lamont said . |
| 28 | A British company called GPT , which makes many of the digital telephone exchanges used by BT , Mercury and others , has devised a way of upgrading its System X exchanges to link to UNIX machines so that anyone can write the software to run on them . |
| 29 | First , he has devised a way of buying the ground at less than half price . |
| 30 | The greenfly , another live-bearer , has evolved a way of overcoming even this limitation . |