Example sentences of "[verb] developed a [noun] of [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And that , like all natural observers , he has developed a knack of deflecting curiosity about himself . |
| 2 | On top of this , no one has developed a way of controlling heat pumps with microprocessors . |
| 3 | A Tewkesbury firm has developed a way of engraving both the customer 's photo and signature onto the card . |
| 4 | A social worker has developed a means of measuring ‘ emotional stability ’ in children by means of a short interview with the child . |
| 5 | Allied Dunbar has developed a method of clarifying your personal financial position . |
| 6 | An American company , Collins and Aikman , has developed a method of grinding up old carpets to produce synthetic wood . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Perhaps that foul seductress had developed a way of doing it absolutely noiselessly , and without movement . |
| 9 | W R Grace gained a patent on neem extract , which it called Margosan-O , in 1988 , claiming that it had developed a means of stabilizing the extracts . |
| 10 | They had developed a method of inserting memories into the brains of amnesiacs , but first those memories had to be recorded with full sensory data on to microchip , and then projected by laser into the brain . |
| 11 | She had developed a habit of raising her hand to her mouth to check because she had no feeling there . |
| 12 | German technologists have developed a system of filtering out sulphur dioxide and oxides of nitrogen from the flue gases of coal-fired power stations . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | German scientists have developed a way of using carbon dioxide rather than water as a medium for dyeing materials . |
| 15 | ENGINEERS in the US have developed a way of cramming two television programmes into a single cable channel . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Forehand and McMahon ( 1981 ) have written a very helpful and detailed therapeutic account of how to help parents with non-compliant children , and they have developed a method of helping these parents through an activity they call the ‘ Child 's Game ’ . |
| 19 | Researchers in the United States have developed a method of increasing the efficiency of coal-fired power stations and reducing emissions from them . |
| 20 | Researchers at the University of Liverpool have developed a method of identifying polychlorinated biphenyls ( PCBs ) which indicates their source and may help to follow them through the environment . |
| 21 | Here fish live that have developed a method of finding their way about that no other creature so far has emulated . |
| 22 | 1 The attitude of the courts The courts have developed a practice of viewing the position of an employee as particularly special and significant when dealing with restraint of trade claims by an employer . |
| 23 | They have developed a means of cutting down the rate at which water passes through their systems and out through pores ( stomata ) in their leaves . |