Example sentences of "[n mass] [prep] [Wh det] [pers pn] can [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The women 's organizations are also an important source of information for many refugees who would otherwise be isolated from events in their country and a channel by means of which they can express support for the revolutionary movement : |
| 2 | The value of the ethological study of apes , monkeys and baboons is what it tells us about apes , monkeys and baboons ; only in very special circumstances , and in a very tentative way , should it be seen as a metaphorical alternative by means of which we can study man himself , as in a mirror . |
| 3 | £50000 does not go very far in TV , except on one or two small regional stations ; it is quite difficult , as the cigarette companies find , to spend £1 million plus on a brand without using TV at all : if you only have a few hundred pounds to spend there are few press media in which you can consider full pages or even moderately large sizes . |
| 4 | We 've got to persuade them to invest in us — to make them see us as the means by which they can topple the Seven . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Defence has been perfected to a remarkable degree , ’ he said , ‘ and I have heard it suggested that through its further development football may be brought to a state of stalemate … it will be a sorry reflection on forwards if they have not the intelligence , the inventiveness to devise means by which they can carry their attack to a successful end . ’ |
| 6 | Both combined lead to political conclusions which are in some ways akin to those of Rawls : political action should be concerned with providing individuals with the means by which they can develop , which enable them to choose and attempt to realize their own conception of the good . |
| 7 | Within that period there will continue to be stated periods for exchange of pleadings and other interlocutory steps since these provide a guide to parties and a means by which they can keep one another up to schedule . |
| 8 | On the other hand , there are those who are hopelessly compromised who believe that the only means by which we can achieve successful conservation is by bringing on board local people , and working together with them to achieve the most harmonious interaction between humans and wildlife . |
| 9 | Having established that body rhythms are a mixture of internal and external causes , we need to have some experimental means by which we can measure the contribution of each to the total rhythm . |
| 10 | The Our Father is the prayer which Christ himself taught us and it is the best means by which we can communicate with God . |
| 11 | Yet in fact imagination can be the means by which we can come to understand reality . |
| 12 | ‘ His plea of guilty is the only means by which he can express his contrition today and acknowledging it must be a lengthy prison sentence which he now faces . ’ |
| 13 | There is a potency in his warning at the end of chapter fourteen that the world is dependent on time which will end , and man 's most urgent and natural work , therefore , should be to find the means by which he can pass beyond it . |
| 14 | Sir Hugo Mallinger , to a limited extent , uses his property for the common good , not least in raising Daniel Deronda ; Grandcourt regards his inheritance as the means by which he can indulge his vices . |
| 15 | Is there no means by which I can find Mr Randall ? |