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 . |