Example sentences of "have [verb] a means " in BNC.
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| 1 | In previous work , the investigator has developed a means to investigate children 's understanding of recursive beliefs in story characters , that is , whether they can understand that John does not know that Mary knows where the ice cream van is . |
| 2 | A social worker has developed a means of measuring ‘ emotional stability ’ in children by means of a short interview with the child . |
| 3 | The activity of corticosteroids ( see Chapter 5 ) against lymphocytes has offered a means of controlling lymphocyte tumours . |
| 4 | I mention him in particular because he understood that opera concerns those ecstatic moments when a man or a woman has to use a means of expression other than the spoken word . |
| 5 | The advent of the networking procedures for linking stand-alone systems has provided a means whereby the role of the CAD system can be rethought . |
| 6 | With this growing experience he has found a means to fight more effectively for social justice and the needs of his fellow-workers . |
| 7 | A British microbiologist claims he has found a means of using bacteria to dispose of human sewage . |
| 8 | As for Edmund , the Danes themselves may have supported his cult , as the Danish rulers of East Anglia came to do in the ninth century , and if so he would eventually have become a means of reconciliation between the two peoples . |
| 9 | W R Grace gained a patent on neem extract , which it called Margosan-O , in 1988 , claiming that it had developed a means of stabilizing the extracts . |
| 10 | sort of the context of ideology that , you know , from a Marxist perspective it is actually useful still to have rich and poor peasants because potentially you 've got classes , you 've got class conflict and you 've got a means of making further progress towards socialism . |
| 11 | Although all felt that they had found a means of living which enabled them to be open to this reality , they nevertheless say that it was experienced as a gift and a grace beyond anything that could be achieved by conscious effort . |
| 12 | They have developed a means of cutting down the rate at which water passes through their systems and out through pores ( stomata ) in their leaves . |
| 13 | They have become commoner in recent years as business executives and their employers have sought a means of solving disputes without recourse to courts of law . |
| 14 | Quangos have provided a means of developing an administrative network at grass roots level without the uncertainty ( and possible political hostility ) associated with provision by elected local authorities . |