Example sentences of "have [verb] 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 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 However , the shame is that for some health service insiders it has become a way of life .
9 It has become a way of life for you .
10 ‘ It has become a way of life for me here — but it must be unsettling to the players .
11 ‘ 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 .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 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 . ’
15 Barter has become a way of life .
16 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 .
17 MATUSHITA of Japan has found a way of printing solar cell material directly onto a glass base .
18 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 . , . .
19 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 .
20 Miss Grimsilk has found a way of giving us something exciting and original at very little cost .
21 But none of my predecessors has found a way of introducing it here , ’ Mr Lamont said .
22 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 .
23 First , he has devised a way of buying the ground at less than half price .
24 The greenfly , another live-bearer , has evolved a way of overcoming even this limitation .
25 He spoke like a child who 'd found a way of handing over a responsibility to its parents .
26 I would have to find a way of bypassing it .
27 If there is a break in recording during the lecture for any reason , you will also have to find a way of telling the viewer what happened in the gap .
28 ‘ We 'll have to find a way of taking Fenella with us , ’ he said .
29 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 ) .
30 When the moment has finally arrived that your specimens are ready for use , you will have to devise a way of storing them safely .
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