Example sentences of "[adv] a [noun] to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like the merchant — and , indeed , implicitly , his wife — an early-emphasized detail of his character is that he is " " free " " in the sense of " generous " , but in his case this is very much a means to an end rather than an end or a pleasure in itself : Free was daun John , and manly of dispence , As in that hous , and ful of diligence To doon plesaunce , and also greet costage . |
| 2 | The separation into sequential categories of response is merely a means to an end . |
| 3 | The young man was merely a means to an end and , in both cases , that end had now been served . |
| 4 | Handling the information held in the system is more important than handling the system , for the system is merely a means to an end . |
| 5 | You drove down a slope to a depth of 50 or more feet , and found yourself in a spacious area which was brightly lit . |
| 6 | There would always have been ambivalence towards her charges because they were not only a means to an end , but also rivals for the limited rations of parental attention . |
| 7 | This list is only a means to an end . |
| 8 | But the technical side of it is only a means to an end , making sure it 's a really clean sound , without going into too much extra cabling and everything . |
| 9 | The administration 's success in cutting the budget was an impressive accomplishment , but for supply-side hawks like David Stockman , it was only a means to an end , an essential first step , for the real heart of the Reagan Revolution lay in the massive tax cut needed to unfetter the capitalist system and to revive the American economy . |
| 10 | Coding schemes and medical record models are , however , only a means to an end and have no value if they fail to support effective clinical information systems . |
| 11 | Her hand slid along a wall to a light switch . |
| 12 | In other words they deny that education is necessarily a means to an end , and argue instead that either the content or the processes of teaching and learning can have intrinsic educational value . |
| 13 | I 'm not suggesting we all become missionaries , but if every one of us did just one charitable thing this week — visited someone old or sick , sent a food parcel to Africa , gave away a toy to a hospital ward or even took in a stray animal — then Christmas really would mean something . |
| 14 | ‘ But we did n't mind a bit , a job here was so much more than just a means to an end , it was never a case of them and us . |
| 15 | It was just a means to an end , that 's all , not personal . ’ |
| 16 | Chamber music of the visual arts , drawings bring one intimately into the creative presence of a master , for they are generally a means to an end : a means of discovery concerning individual forms or formal composition . |
| 17 | THE Mayor of Middlesbrough , Coun Eddie Bolland , supported pedal power when he handed over a tandem to a group helping blind and partially-sighted people take part in cycling and sport . |
| 18 | A third State ’ means a State not a party to a treaty' . |
| 19 | Article 2 ( h ) of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties provides that ‘ A third State means a State not a party to a treaty . ’ |
| 20 | The significance of Rookes v. Barnard was that it made it clear that a threat of a breach of contract was unlawful for this purpose but the criticism has been made ( and this indeed was the opinion of the Court of Appeal ) that if intimidation is extended to threats to break contracts ‘ it would overturn or outflank some elementary principles of contract law , ’ notably the doctrine of privity of contract , which holds that one who is not a party to a contract can not found a claim upon it or sue for breach of it . |
| 21 | Suppose that I try to act consistently as an egoist , indifferent to any effect on others which is not a means to an effect on myself . |
| 22 | Behaviour is always a reaction to a trigger of some kind . |
| 23 | There is a widely held view among many business experts that selling off a business to a management buy-out team is the easy way out and is not in the best interests of a company 's shareholders . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's more a return to a belief in the heroic , the magical and the transcendent . ’ |
| 25 | But as the new paradigm emerges economic activity will become more a means to an end , and less a primary social goal . |
| 26 | It is clear , given all these factors , that too early a commitment to a phoneme 's identity would be disastrous . |
| 27 | ‘ We take them once a year to a council rubbish dump . |
| 28 | You do n't just put a two page report in and it 's resolved it 's probably a three month project that you need to go continuously once a week to a trial meeting or or three months once a week to a two hour meeting . |
| 29 | Five months earlier , on a bridge only a few miles away , Julie Dart 's killer had also left a stencilled message and used the phrase ‘ 2 mins allowed ’ and also a reference to a detector at the drop-off point . |
| 30 | But it was also a throwback to a form of behaviour which , however natural it might have seemed to officer cadets in the First World War , was excruciatingly embarrassing to succeeding generations of Magdalen men . |