Example sentences of "means [prep] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the early stages of acquisition , children establish an interactional matrix for language learning , and then slowly learn to utilize linguistic means for promoting interaction . |
| 2 | But he added : ‘ Why is it that while the means for achieving happiness have never been greater , the incidence of stress and depression also seems to be greater than ever before ? ’ |
| 3 | One of the team 's first tasks was to identify which maintenance craftsmen would transfer from day working to shifts and also to establish the means for allocating routine maintenance to be undertaken by the shift teams . |
| 4 | A Bill will be introduced to replace private legislation as the means for authorising transport development schemes . |
| 5 | Civilization 's other important component , in addition to the technical means for controlling nature , is the corpus of regulations which exist for adjusting the relations between men . |
| 6 | It is not that the outlawing of all war apart from the overwhelming necessities of self-defence is unrealistic and therefore inevitably unefficacious as a means for controlling force , but rather that it runs counter to the sort of moral consensus on which the ethical authority of international law could be based . |
| 7 | Measurement of intelligence , relative to that of a pupil 's contemporaries , promised the fairest and the simplest and ( apparently ) the most appropriate means for effecting selection of this kind . |
| 8 | It also offers the prospect of an easier means for raising finance when investment is needed . |
| 9 | But it did not institute systematic means of monitoring school curricula to check on whether or not inspectorate advice was being followed , nor did it devise systematic means for exerting pressure on schools to follow this advice . |
| 10 | Ideally , strategies using an economics-based approach to air pollution control would provide financial incentives for emission sources to pursue the most cost-effective means for reducing pollution ( Anderson et al. , 1977 ; Magat , 1982 ; Rosencranz , 1981 ) . |
| 11 | Plants have long " known " how to use the energy of sunlight to split water , but they do not evolve hydrogen explicitly , since it is needed only for internal energetic processes within the plant itself as a means for reducing carbon dioxide . |
| 12 | His blackness he now regards as a personal stabilizer rather than a means for rejecting society . |
| 13 | They should be expressed in a way which provides a means for assessing performance . |
| 14 | An interpretation of the Hague Convention as the exclusive means for obtaining evidence located abroad would effectively subject every American court hearing a case involving a national of a contracting state to the internal laws of that State . |
| 15 | ‘ Authority is an inappropriate means for obtaining commitment to objectives . |
| 16 | I am all for planning from the bottom up but I am also convinced of the virtues of the presentation of draft proposals as a means for making discussion possible . |
| 17 | These measures alone may be as effective a means of recognising house officers as an important part of the service provided as restricting them to one hospital site for their preregistration year . |
| 18 | As with Terry she meant nothing to him , except as a means of extorting money from her papa . |
| 19 | Using pre-formulated questions as a structure for notes also provides more able children with a useful means of synthesising information from a range of sources . |
| 20 | The above example was chosen to illustrate the basic underlying problem about the use of choices between representatives as a means of settling policy priorities . |
| 21 | Before examining the two main means of constructing classification schedules , it is as well to consider what the objectives of the designer of a classification scheme should be . |
| 22 | For many years , courts in the United States failed to understand the Latin American approach ; the failure was so fundamental that a plaintiff in a Latin American republic had no means of serving process on a defendant in the United States . |
| 23 | Similarly , the significance of friendship as a means of exercising influence was appreciated by youth workers , as it would be after 1910 in the working out of the juvenile labour exchange , vocational guidance and after-care schemes . |
| 24 | They may prove , in Foucault 's use of the word , to be an " efficient " means of exercising power . |
| 25 | Others , terrified of intimacy and closeness , use quarrels as a means of maintaining distance . |
| 26 | He valued ceremony , too , perhaps as a barrier , negotiable when desired , but inestimable as a means of maintaining distance during a parley . |
| 27 | Finally , rooms containing gas cookers must have an openable window or other means of providing ventilation , and if the room 's volume is less than 10cu m , it must also have a permanent ventilation opening with an area of at least 5000sq mm . |
| 28 | Brazil provides the example par excellence of a country where borrowing during the 1970s seemed a sensible means of providing liquidity to finance industrialisation ( Sachs , 1981 : p. 39 ) . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | They are also a useful means of providing missile support for non-missile troops . |