Example sentences of "means of [verb] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the early 1980s the process went one stage further with the Bank buying commercial bills as a means of providing assistance in the money market ; the need for this was exacerbated by the policy of overfunding the PSBR to reduce broad money growth . |
| 2 | As promised by Palmerston during the previous session , a Select Committee was set up by the House of Commons on 28th April , 1856 to consider ‘ the best means of providing Accommodation for the various Public Departments in the Neighbourhood of Downing Street ’ . |
| 3 | There are several other means of drawing attention to the difference between these adjectives and the predicate qualifiers , with which the risk of confusion may be greatest . |
| 4 | The destruction in 1980 of Iraq 's two Gulf terminals , together with the depletion of its foreign-exchange reserves , meant that it was in urgent need of an alternative means of delivering oil in the Gulf and a means of settling suppliers ' bills while payment for the oil was coming through . |
| 5 | Exhibitions represent a major means of delivering information about the Garden 's role and work , to a wide audience . |
| 6 | For the employers , however , the ‘ new technology ’ was a means of re-establishing control over the industry and of driving it into profit . |
| 7 | In general , research suggests that in the immediate wake of unexpected news of a major loss , such as finding oneself permanently disabled after a car accident , denial may also , in the short term , be an adaptive response as a means of buying time for the individual ( Adams and Lindemann , 1974 ) . |
| 8 | Networks are the primary means of transmitting culture to the firm 's members . |
| 9 | The means of promoting consensus on the curriculum proved to be The National Curriculum 5–16 : a consultation document ( hereafter TNC ) , where it is argued that the national curriculum will help to raise standards by ensuring that all pupils follow a broad and balanced curriculum throughout the compulsory period ; by setting clear objectives of what pupils should be expected to achieve ; by ensuring that all pupils , irrespective of their sex , ethnic origins or geographical location have access to the same curriculum offer ; and by checking on performance and progress at various stages . |
| 10 | Within East London , teacher secondment and Work Experience have proved the two most powerful means of promoting ownership of the Compact . |
| 11 | Put simply this means that it must have some means of accepting information from the user , normally a keyboard , and giving results back , traditionally a screen of some kind . |
| 12 | The paper , designed to provoke discussion , considers the usefulness of civil liability as a means of allocating responsibility for the costs of remedying environmental damage and of preventing future damage . |
| 13 | ‘ We do recognise that there is some indication of user quantities being found aboard klondykers — but there is no sign that the drug barons have begun using this means of bringing material into the country . |
| 14 | In the result , Co-operation seen as an exclusive alternative to Capitalism as the means of organising society for the production of wealth was , for all practical purposes , abandoned ; and abandoned with it was trade unionism seen as the means by which capitalism was to be displaced by Co-operation . |
| 15 | We 've got quite a few pupils in our school who will seize on anything like this as a means of causing friction between the various groups . |
| 16 | Like his predecessors , Philip VI used the obligations of liege homage , and the threat of confiscation of the duchy if Edward defaulted on these obligations , as a means of putting pressure on the English king when his policies appeared to threaten French interests . |
| 17 | But so long as the company 's objective is maximum profits , a concern with the welfare of third parties is necessarily an instrumental one : it is a means of protecting profitability in the long term . |
| 18 | The Laws of Manu , an ancient law book of the Hindu way of life , which discusses the customs , conventions and laws , that should operate at each stage of life and govern the relation of the different orders with one another , regards the four āśramas as the best means of attaining co-operation For the common good . |
| 19 | Under these schemes , which had first been developed in the 1970s as a means of raising capital from the private sector for new development , for example , on office and shopping complexes ( i.e. as a means of avoiding constraints on capital spending ) , council property was sold on a long lease to another agency and then leased back for shorter periods until the long lease expired . |
| 20 | The committee also recommended a 1 per cent tax on all imports into the ECOWAS area as a means of raising revenue for the organization rather than the existing method based on yearly contributions from members . |
| 21 | It must be recognized that there are many good reasons for wishing to combine data in these ways , but a major problem arises because GIS packages fail to offer any means of keeping track of the effects of error propagation and how it affects the results . |
| 22 | Both as Bishop and Vice-Chancellor , his discouragement of the study of the Irish language also deprived the Anglican clergy of the only means of making progress among the peasants of the South . |
| 23 | Cases alleging ‘ criminal conversation ’ , which begin as a means of giving compensation to the husband for a lover 's access to his wife and ending ( by the late eighteenth century ) as a necessary prerequisite for full divorce by Act of Parliament , provide another . |
| 24 | Expenditure on education was not regarded ( except perhaps by ‘ woolly intellectuals ’ ) as a means of giving opportunity to the masses . |
| 25 | It is yet another part of the Government 's overall policy of transferring the means of housing provision from the public to the private sector . |
| 26 | Adherence to tradition , Hailey wrote , in a discreet display of the higher cynicism , ‘ valuable as it is , is only a means of securing acceptability of the institutions on which we place our reliance , and acceptability is the essential quality which they must possess ’ . |
| 27 | Political intervention was often the only means of securing permission for the sale of a commission to another . |
| 28 | But a pauper burial was the final degradation of a miserable life , a respectable funeral a means of demonstrating self-respect to the end and hence of immense psychological importance . |
| 29 | The genre of the novel long competed with ‘ the news ’ as a primary means of circulating information about the world , but its advantage as a source of entertainment as well as information failed to maintain its edge over the less demanding oral media of radio and television . |
| 30 | According to Lee ( 1965 ) , language games are a means of acquiring variety in the consolidation process of language learning . |