Example sentences of "means of [verb] [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After his return in August 1908 from a packed five-day trip he set his civil servants at the Treasury to explore means of setting up a similar scheme for Britain . |
| 2 | Nelson has been struggling to implement this grand vision ever since but , in the course of his work , he established the hypertext model as a means of getting around a huge database . |
| 3 | A resolution was passed condemning direct action as a means of bringing about the Social Democratic Commonwealth , while the importance of support for the cooperative movement was recognised in spite of doubts on the advisability of its political involvement . |
| 4 | Projects provide a useful means of bringing together a wide range of skills and for integrating different activities within a module . |
| 5 | It has been argued earlier that the LEAs , both individually and collectively , failed to generate greater consensus on the school curriculum , but were there not alternative means of bringing together the various partners ( the LEAs , schools and their teachers , governors and parents , industry and commerce ; the churches ) to reach an agreement ? |
| 6 | Just as aware as Napoleon III that royal connections could be made to serve a diplomatic turn , Bismarck had used Princess Victoria , wife of the Crown Prince Frederick , as a means of sounding out the British government as to its possible reactions to Leopold 's candidature . |
| 7 | The Lords entered the fray in December with a strong preference for PR as a means of keeping both the Labour party and the Commons in check , so that in January 1918 there were disputes between the two houses as well as between and within the parties . |
| 8 | The ethnography was a means of observing how the wider patterns of society — its inequalities and histories of domination — flow through patterns of living and thinking which seem so ordinary . |