Example sentences of "have a way [prep] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 He has a way of drawing you into his enterprises , which is flattering . )
2 Some scientifically-minded people might agree that the foregoing is not unreasonable because mathematics has a way of intruding into human affairs whether we like it or not .
3 Ironically this ‘ ethic of care ’ has a way of intruding into the lives of the most passionate ‘ ethic of rights ’ adherents .
4 For those people who want to use a mouse , Windows Bridge also has a way of tracking the speed and direction of the screen cursor using a series of different sounds .
5 Smith has a way of merging pragmatism with logic that prevents the escape of a lot of the hot air which inevitably hypes up these occasions .
6 The old , old fashion — Death ! ( 4 ) Oh thank GOD , all who see it , for that older fashion yet , of immortality ! ( 5 ) And look upon us , angels of young children , with regards not quite estranged , when the swift river bears us to the ocean ! ( 6 ) At such points Dickens has a way of enlarging his theme beyond the narrative pretext , addressing his readers directly as sharers of a common human lot with himself and his characters .
7 Michael Tye , in his recent book The Metaphysics of Mind ( Cambridge , 1989 ) , has a way of dealing with the difficulty which , if it worked , would solve the materialist 's problem .
8 He has a way of speaking that seems to turn them all into engines , which , in terms of simple physics , is what they are .
9 The slippage principle which should , I remarked , enervate but in truth exhilarates , has a way of positioning the reader on the side of the narrative against the narrator .
10 ‘ Football has a way of kicking you down like that .
11 He now has a way of displaying it as a real space-filling 3-D image .
12 Reality has a way of falling short of the ideal .
13 Mr Murdoch , like Mr Gower , has a way of playing that was bound to run into trouble .
14 The ROA would prefer to see the money used to increase prize money in the lower races , but when money is reallocated in that manner it has a way of disappearing .
15 1 ) The desirability to have a Partner in Residence in Scotland has a way of enabling meaningful contact to be made between supporters here and Partners overseas .
16 ‘ But then , ’ she added , ‘ he has a way of finding the right words — when he 's sure of his ground , I mean .
17 as if that were n't discomfort enough , you also have to make heroic efforts to stifle your giggles at the Old Fire Station , Oxford , for Miss Miles has a way of coming up with lines that are almost sublime in their ridiculousness .
18 He has a way of standing with his hands by his side or behind his back , as if he does n't know what on earth to do with them .
19 Life has a way of changing the best of plans .
20 Sometimes though it has a way of surfacing . ’
21 On such occasions it often seems foolish to intervene , for nature has a way of eliminating stragglers .
22 You know as well as I do , Christina , Barbados has a way of doing strange things to people . ’
23 ‘ Your guess is as good as mine , but fate has a way of doing unexpected things . ’
24 And I have been years on Bold injections and all the rest of it , and I know from experience you get , you deal with it , it does n't cure the disease but can you see you have a way of dealing with it , of coping with it , of helping yourself er c er do things and therefore you can
25 We do n't have , we do n't have a way of identifying reports and getting them fixed .
26 The increased qualified majority voting in the Council of Ministers , to which we have agreed in the treaty , means that we must have a way of keeping our national Parliaments better informed than they are at present .
27 As feminists , we need to have a way of looking at this work which makes us think about whose shattered lives and suffering produced the money used to pay her for her paintings — namely the poor rural workers of Britain and Ireland and the enslaved African peoples working in the West Indies and the American colonies .
28 It would be useful to have a way of determining the fair sterling-dollar exchange rate independently of knowing whether these other relationships were equilibrium ones .
29 He also put in much of his own time and appeared to have a way of solving most problems .
30 The girl had a way of looking at her as if she could read her mind and Ida did n't like it .
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