Example sentences of "means [prep] [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If as we indicated , Grice 's theory of meaning-nn is construed as a theory of communication , it has the interesting consequence that it gives an account of how communication might be achieved in the absence of any conventional means for expressing the intended message . |
| 2 | In theory , he commands a formidable array of armed forces and in his hands lie the means for destroying the human race . |
| 3 | The authors concluded , ‘ APT provides effective means for managing the different types of risk to which investors are exposed . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , within the framework of NEP , Bukharin was seeking the means for establishing the necessary equilibrium of social and political , as well as the economic , factors . |
| 5 | Design becomes the means for ordering the socio-technical world in a manner compatible with both socio-cultural and technical-economic ends ; the means for forming , literally , future society in a manner at once desired and yet internally dialectically related to actuality requirements . |
| 6 | It is here that theorisations which see the nuclear family as a means for controlling the working class in the ‘ interests of capitalism ’ can be seen to be inadequate . |
| 7 | Neglectful silence is , of course , the most perfect means of maintaining the powerful integrity of the institutional boundaries against any criticisms . |
| 8 | The honours system developed in medieval Britain as a means of maintaining the strict hierarchy necessary for monarchical rule : a place for everyone and everyone in their place . |
| 9 | Although I do not have a magic wand , I hope to be able to establish some means of providing the physical back-up that you would like to receive from the Society and to start the ball rolling I am compiling a list of all the ways in which you have been supported or would like to have been supported , in the past plus suggestions for the future . |
| 10 | In the wider context , the new Quality Framework signals our commitment to supporting the success of education and training providers as a means of developing the highly-skilled workforce on which Scotland 's future economic health depends . |
| 11 | The trickier the situation the more your behaviour matters as a means of influencing the other person or people . |
| 12 | With the parties arrayed against him and no Gaullist movement to counter them , he was left with no means of influencing the constitutional debate in a positive direction . |
| 13 | There is nothing which conflicts with the integrity of the United Kingdom in securing to Scotsmen in that or some other way an effective means of shaping the special legislation which affects them and only them . |
| 14 | One possible means of reconciling the new right and Thatcherism to the Conservative tradition would be to abandon the emphasis on ‘ authority ’ and emphasize the duality of Conservative thought in terms of the ‘ libertarian'/ ’ paternalist' divide . |
| 15 | Finally , it is becoming increasingly evident that scientific enquiry is an ongoing narrative through which generations of thinkers have sought to understand the world around them , and also that narrative as a mode of knowledge can be used as a means of accommodating the logical paradoxes of contemporary sciences . |
| 16 | From his response to the huge volume of encrypted data that Coleman was sending twice a week to his DIA number in Maryland , Donleavy was interested in his reports , not just for their own sake , but as a means of cross-checking the official inter-agency pooling of information by the DEA and CIA . |
| 17 | They may construct artificial representations of a fixed reality at any one point of time as a means of handling the continuous flow of social change , but these are simply data for the social scientist and not to be taken at face value . |
| 18 | Consider , for example , the criticisms of transformations by Bresnan ( 1982 ) as a means of handling the active/passive relationship and her alternative proposals ; on the other hand , Gazdar and his colleagues ( 1985 ) have proposed a completely different framework for handling these relationships . |
| 19 | Others think that this pattern of seven days is simply the most vivid means of expressing the creative energy and satisfaction of God , the orderliness and simple majesty of the way he created all things . |
| 20 | Potential purchasers also commission reports , usually as a means of verifying the supposed value of a business that interests them . |
| 21 | The war , and the region 's complex geopolitical concerns , are also preventing naturalists from undertaking the most effective means of monitoring the Siberian crane - ringing the flock with miniature transmitters that could be tracked from space . |
| 22 | This law dates back to the Middle Ages , when it was a means of filling the royal coffers , and until now it has allowed the State ( today the Treasury ) to claim possession of valuable objects whose owners can not be traced . |
| 23 | Within the Text710 version of the OALDCE are inflexional codes which provide a means of producing the standard inflections that a human would be able to generate automatically . |
| 24 | Meanwhile , the use of selective internment on both sides of the border as a means of curbing the present spate of violence was rejected today by the Republic 's Minister for Foreign Affairs , Dick Spring , and by the SDLP leader , John Hume . |
| 25 | The Court reiterated that ‘ the Convention does not govern the actions of States not parties to it , nor does it purport to be a means of requiring the Contracting States to impose Convention standards on other States . ’ |
| 26 | In all cases although the reason for the activity is clear cut the means of achieving the desired end vary widely in terms of the path taken and the time required . |
| 27 | Dingwall , in another context , calls these stories ‘ atrocity stories ’ ( 1977 ) , and Richman shows how they feature prominently in the discourse of traffic wardens , in an attempt to socialize new recruits into what they can expect , as well as being a means of stressing the moral worth of traffic wardens : a concern which was high on the priorities of such a stigmatized occupational group ( Richman 1983 : 115 ) . |
| 28 | Some means of escaping the waiting time of boredom and temporary unemployment . |
| 29 | As Patricia Tsurumi has commented , the evidence indicates that Koreans embraced the educational opportunities afforded by the Japanese as a means of aiding the future development of their country in the hope that the shackles imposed by Japan could later be discarded : it was a more subtle way of manifesting Korean nationalism . |
| 30 | Even then , however , the upturn had served more as a harbinger of better things to come than as the means of eclipsing the recessionary weakness of the previous 11 months . |