Example sentences of "means of [verb] [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The activity is also intended to encourage students to see literary texts as a valuable means of providing insights into the subtleties of linguistic form and function . |
| 2 | At a corporate level the EIS offers a means of providing managers with the up-to-date information required for timely and informed decision-making . |
| 3 | In a book devoted to this question Robson ( 1976 ) contrasted the welfare state , as a means of providing services to the needy and underprivileged members of the community , with the ‘ welfare society ’ , in which ‘ welfare is of unlimited scope ’ , involving conditions of work , income , the character and scope of social services , the quality of the environment , recreational facilities , and the cultivation of the arts , as well as freedom of expression and movement , and the protection of individuals against abuses of power . |
| 4 | They have persistently insisted that the treaty we signed contained agreements to enhance democracy within Europe , within the Commission and within the European Parliament , and at the same time embraced closer European union by means of getting agreements between the Governments of the Twelve on foreign policy , security matters and matters connected with home affairs . |
| 5 | It demonstrates that there is a case for arguing that the child care system should no longer reinforce inequities but become a means of redressing them , and like improved health should see education as a proper means of laying foundations for the children 's futures . |
| 6 | The revenue from the ivory was used both for personal gain and as a means of channelling funds to the guerrillas . |
| 7 | ‘ A means of sending pictures through the air . ’ |
| 8 | A word of warning must be given about unemployment statistics : the official figures are totally unreliable as a means of gauging changes in the level of unemployment . |
| 9 | The insidious growth of the wages gap between agriculture and industry , which the AWB has done little to narrow , leads to the consideration once more of alternative means of raising wages on the land . |
| 10 | An egalitarian government may also wish to use the tax system as a means of redistributing resources from the rich to the poor . |
| 11 | However Hans Beck also spoke up in defence of the European Community PHARE programme in the face of attacks from local critics , many of whom view it as a means of circulating funds from the European Community to Western economic advisors and consultancy firms , delivering few tangible benefits . |
| 12 | However Hans Beck also spoke up in defence of the European Community PHARE programme in the face of attacks from local critics , many of whom view it as a means of circulating funds from the European Community to Western economic advisors and consultancy firms , delivering few tangible benefits . |
| 13 | One of the characteristics which distinguish " modern industrial " from " preindustrial " society is that in the former there is a wide circulation of " money " , where " money " means a general medium of exchange and a store of value which serves equally well as a reward for services rendered and as a means of purchasing commodities in the market . |
| 14 | The broke new ground in its analysis of the history of embroidery , arguing that embroidery became both a means of educating women into the feminine ideal , and a weapon of resistance to the painful constraints of femininity — a source of both pleasurable creativity and oppression . |