Example sentences of "means of [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | where there is a screenful of records at a specific classification code , there should be a means of skipping to the next or previous codes ; |
| 2 | Now in the absence of Dr and anybody else , yesterday , er myself , Ian , Nick er and one of the lab girls got together , we trialled all sorts of different er ways and means of getting round the high conductivity that was occurring er vis a vis a multi-purpose mix . |
| 3 | The Heart of Wales Line , famous for its beautiful scenic views , was promoted by , amongst others , the London and North Western Railway Company as a means of tapping into the industrial traffic in the Swansea area , with the final section of railway between Builth Road and Llandovery opening in 1868 . |
| 4 | In the light of the discussion above , it is possible to present the objectives of investment planning and enterprise democracy not merely as desirable from a socialist point of view , but as potential means of tackling the basic problems reflected in the sorry history of party politics since the '60s : investment planning as a means of breaking through the conservative/speculative mode of calculation of the financial institutions and restructuring industry ; enterprise democracy as a means of transforming the ‘ veto power ’ of the working class into a positive influence over the direction and management of enterprises . |
| 5 | In those dispiriting circumstances it comes as no surprise to find politicians trying to offer a means of escaping from the encircling gloom . |
| 6 | Harmony based on notes a perfect fourth apart ( ‘ quartal harmony ’ ) has been used by composers for almost the entire century , as a means of escaping from the old harmony based on thirds , with its complex systematization and expansion into the chromatic field . |
| 7 | Once our boats had been destroyed , we had no means of communicating with the greater world . |
| 8 | Interest in what has become an indispensable means of communicating in the 1990s was not sparked until early this century when a modernised version of Bain 's brainchild was used to send newspaper photographs . |
| 9 | Parliamentary sovereignty was felt to be compatible with the rule of law primarily because ‘ the commands of Parliament … can be uttered only through the combined actions of its three constituent parts ’ and that , ‘ unlike a sovereign monarch who is not only a legislator but a ruler , that is , head of the executive government , has never hitherto been able to use the powers of the government as a means of interfering with the regular course of law ’ . |
| 10 | The mountain goat 's ancestry , as a member of the Bovid family , gave it a good start : it gave the animal the means of subsisting on the poor mountain vegetation , and it provided it with feet that could be adapted to moving around in the precipitous terrain . |
| 11 | This is so serious that for world championship flying , many gliders are now fitted with a means of cleaning off the leading edges of the wings in flight . |