Example sentences of "has [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 .
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