Example sentences of "[prep] the [det] means " in BNC.

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1 Art is one of the few means left of making contact with an essentially ‘ good ’ nature .
2 They intend to carry out Lise and Colas by the same means .
3 In July 1256 James Fresel , a royal clerk , was sent to this forest to raise 1,000 marks , to be paid into the Wardrobe , by the same means , and as Henry III 's financial difficulties increased he appointed Adam Grenville in April 1257 to raise another 3–4,000 marks by selling wood in the royal forests of England .
4 In both 1845 and 1862 they were encouraged to assist their education by the same means , and the 1870 Act created school boards and the London Schools Board .
5 It would seem that any other harmful fumes around would be drawn in by the same means , aerosols being a prime example .
6 However , if theoretical physicists can prove the existence of God by the use of mathematics , I can almost certainly prove that she 's not Nick and his Cave by the same means .
7 Mercifully , there was no proposal to attempt landing an aircraft by the same means , but rather it was envisaged that rough landing strips could be constructed adjacent to the launcher .
8 I recently read Stacey 's study of the council , published with its blessing and undertaken by the same means of ‘ participant observation , ’ albeit not apparently requiring the same degree of deception .
9 One leaves the activity by the same means , directed back to the appropriate page of the main text .
10 This is also the period when he hired as chauffeur and typist a young man , Alfred Agostinelli , who drove him to the seaside in a closed car , took him by the same means to visit many Romanesque churches in Normandy , and who was killed when the plane he was learning to fly crashed into the sea off Antibes in nineteen fourteen .
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