Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] a way of " in BNC.
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| 1 | On top of this , no one has developed a way of controlling heat pumps with microprocessors . |
| 2 | A Tewkesbury firm has developed a way of engraving both the customer 's photo and signature onto the card . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | However , the shame is that for some health service insiders it has become a way of life . |
| 5 | It has become a way of life for you . |
| 6 | ‘ It has become a way of life for me here — but it must be unsettling to the players . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | Barter has become a way of life . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | MATUSHITA of Japan has found a way of printing solar cell material directly onto a glass base . |
| 14 | 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 . , . . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Miss Grimsilk has found a way of giving us something exciting and original at very little cost . |
| 17 | But none of my predecessors has found a way of introducing it here , ’ Mr Lamont said . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | First , he has devised a way of buying the ground at less than half price . |
| 20 | The greenfly , another live-bearer , has evolved a way of overcoming even this limitation . |
| 21 | He spoke like a child who 'd found a way of handing over a responsibility to its parents . |
| 22 | 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 ) . |
| 23 | RESEARCHERS in Texas may have found a way of reducing brain damage in road accident victims who have been drinking excessively . |
| 24 | Before you can say Edward de Bono , it might have found a way of creatively accounting your taxes , so the taxman actually owes you money . |
| 25 | He does not appear , however , to have grasped the management nettle or to have found a way of dealing with its stings . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Perhaps that foul seductress had developed a way of doing it absolutely noiselessly , and without movement . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | ‘ I think I 've got a way of making it taste a little less foul this year , ’ said Jack Nopps one Christmas . |
| 30 | 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 ? |