Example sentences of "[n mass] of [verb] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many Macintosh applications spend up to 90% of processing time within the Toolbox , according to Apple , which is why a native implementation was developed . |
| 2 | Many Macintosh applications , such as PageMaker and Quark XPress , spend up to 90% of processing time within the Toolbox , according to Apple , which is why a native implementation was developed . |
| 3 | Many Macintosh applications , such as PageMaker and Quark XPress , spend up to 90% of processing time within the Toolbox , according to Apple , which is why a native implementation was developed . |
| 4 | In the early 1980s the process went one stage further with the Bank buying commercial bills as a means of providing assistance in the money market ; the need for this was exacerbated by the policy of overfunding the PSBR to reduce broad money growth . |
| 5 | The activity is also intended to encourage students to see literary texts as a valuable means of providing insights into the subtleties of linguistic form and function . |
| 6 | At a corporate level the EIS offers a means of providing managers with the up-to-date information required for timely and informed decision-making . |
| 7 | In a book devoted to this question Robson ( 1976 ) contrasted the welfare state , as a means of providing services to the needy and underprivileged members of the community , with the ‘ welfare society ’ , in which ‘ welfare is of unlimited scope ’ , involving conditions of work , income , the character and scope of social services , the quality of the environment , recreational facilities , and the cultivation of the arts , as well as freedom of expression and movement , and the protection of individuals against abuses of power . |
| 8 | As promised by Palmerston during the previous session , a Select Committee was set up by the House of Commons on 28th April , 1856 to consider ‘ the best means of providing Accommodation for the various Public Departments in the Neighbourhood of Downing Street ’ . |
| 9 | They have persistently insisted that the treaty we signed contained agreements to enhance democracy within Europe , within the Commission and within the European Parliament , and at the same time embraced closer European union by means of getting agreements between the Governments of the Twelve on foreign policy , security matters and matters connected with home affairs . |
| 10 | There are several other means of drawing attention to the difference between these adjectives and the predicate qualifiers , with which the risk of confusion may be greatest . |
| 11 | The destruction in 1980 of Iraq 's two Gulf terminals , together with the depletion of its foreign-exchange reserves , meant that it was in urgent need of an alternative means of delivering oil in the Gulf and a means of settling suppliers ' bills while payment for the oil was coming through . |
| 12 | Exhibitions represent a major means of delivering information about the Garden 's role and work , to a wide audience . |
| 13 | For the employers , however , the ‘ new technology ’ was a means of re-establishing control over the industry and of driving it into profit . |
| 14 | Brenda , what do you say to the argument that having these sites is basically a means of roping people into the system ? |
| 15 | In general , research suggests that in the immediate wake of unexpected news of a major loss , such as finding oneself permanently disabled after a car accident , denial may also , in the short term , be an adaptive response as a means of buying time for the individual ( Adams and Lindemann , 1974 ) . |
| 16 | It demonstrates that there is a case for arguing that the child care system should no longer reinforce inequities but become a means of redressing them , and like improved health should see education as a proper means of laying foundations for the children 's futures . |
| 17 | Networks are the primary means of transmitting culture to the firm 's members . |
| 18 | The means of promoting consensus on the curriculum proved to be The National Curriculum 5–16 : a consultation document ( hereafter TNC ) , where it is argued that the national curriculum will help to raise standards by ensuring that all pupils follow a broad and balanced curriculum throughout the compulsory period ; by setting clear objectives of what pupils should be expected to achieve ; by ensuring that all pupils , irrespective of their sex , ethnic origins or geographical location have access to the same curriculum offer ; and by checking on performance and progress at various stages . |
| 19 | Within East London , teacher secondment and Work Experience have proved the two most powerful means of promoting ownership of the Compact . |
| 20 | The revenue from the ivory was used both for personal gain and as a means of channelling funds to the guerrillas . |
| 21 | Put simply this means that it must have some means of accepting information from the user , normally a keyboard , and giving results back , traditionally a screen of some kind . |
| 22 | The paper , designed to provoke discussion , considers the usefulness of civil liability as a means of allocating responsibility for the costs of remedying environmental damage and of preventing future damage . |
| 23 | In addition , the Rover link would bring BAe into contact with Honda , a link which was welcomed by BAe , both in terms of potential collaboration in manufacturing and also as a means of facilitating sales in the Far East . |
| 24 | ‘ We do recognise that there is some indication of user quantities being found aboard klondykers — but there is no sign that the drug barons have begun using this means of bringing material into the country . |
| 25 | In the result , Co-operation seen as an exclusive alternative to Capitalism as the means of organising society for the production of wealth was , for all practical purposes , abandoned ; and abandoned with it was trade unionism seen as the means by which capitalism was to be displaced by Co-operation . |
| 26 | We 've got quite a few pupils in our school who will seize on anything like this as a means of causing friction between the various groups . |
| 27 | ‘ A means of sending pictures through the air . ’ |
| 28 | Like his predecessors , Philip VI used the obligations of liege homage , and the threat of confiscation of the duchy if Edward defaulted on these obligations , as a means of putting pressure on the English king when his policies appeared to threaten French interests . |
| 29 | But so long as the company 's objective is maximum profits , a concern with the welfare of third parties is necessarily an instrumental one : it is a means of protecting profitability in the long term . |
| 30 | A word of warning must be given about unemployment statistics : the official figures are totally unreliable as a means of gauging changes in the level of unemployment . |