Example sentences of "means [prep] [verb] the [adj] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | For I believe educational evaluation , in its broad interpretation , is the sole means for ensuring the progressive and enlightened development of the people the educational system serves . |
| 2 | Evil and aggression , in this sense , exist in every society , as a means of defining the good and the peaceful ( or cowardly ) ( see Campbell , this volume ) . |
| 3 | I chose to use a kind of window composition , with the subject viewed through a broad decorative border , as a means of uniting the abstract and realistic elements within the subject . |
| 4 | What they have not yet recognised is that , if that is normality , if those are the institutions the system requires and that their normal behaviour , then the system is wrong and another is needed , a new economic model which will mark an advance from the sterile confrontation between Capitalism and Socialism , thesis and antithesis , to the synthesis providing a long overdue advance in democratic practice and a means of treating the chronic and disabling debility of the national economy . |
| 5 | Van Gennep 's ideas on ‘ rites of separation ’ ( 1960 ) are a useful means of interpreting the social and spatial movements undertaken by the ethnographer as policeman , as he moves out from the early uniformed position of centrality described above . |