Example sentences of "means [prep] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so we end up in the paradox of a system which invokes the criterion of historical consciousness as a means for distinguishing the ‘ primitive ’ from the , civilized' but — contrary to its claim — is itself ahistorical . |
| 2 | If as we indicated , Grice 's theory of meaning-nn is construed as a theory of communication , it has the interesting consequence that it gives an account of how communication might be achieved in the absence of any conventional means for expressing the intended message . |
| 3 | In theory , he commands a formidable array of armed forces and in his hands lie the means for destroying the human race . |
| 4 | To know this is useful , but to identify those media is to identify the means for transmitting the values and beliefs that coalesce to form the political culture , and not to identify the political culture itself . |
| 5 | Government spending and taxation will therefore have a magnified effect on total income and expenditure flows , thereby providing the fiscal authorities with a potential means for managing the economy . |
| 6 | The authors concluded , ‘ APT provides effective means for managing the different types of risk to which investors are exposed . |
| 7 | Elections can not be , and should not be regarded as , a means for approving the details of comprehensive manifestoes and the electors often seem to vote against a party rather than for the winning party … |
| 8 | Led by Sir Michael Angus , Chairman of Unilever and Deputy President of the CBI , Bristol 's Campaign for Resource will provide the financial means for achieving the University 's full potential in terms of facilities for teaching , research and continuing education . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , within the framework of NEP , Bukharin was seeking the means for establishing the necessary equilibrium of social and political , as well as the economic , factors . |
| 10 | Design becomes the means for ordering the socio-technical world in a manner compatible with both socio-cultural and technical-economic ends ; the means for forming , literally , future society in a manner at once desired and yet internally dialectically related to actuality requirements . |
| 11 | The history of Western Marxism amounts to a history of attempts to provide a means for transcending the condition of alienation and achieving that lost totality , not through irony or a reified homogeneous temporality , as in Lukács ' novel , but , according to his formulation of Marxism , through history and class consciousness . |
| 12 | As his work developed , he became increasingly clear that our means for discovering the truth about reality stood in need of a persuasive justification . |
| 13 | Pearson 's study of the history of street crime in Britain clearly illustrates the problem of using criminal statistics as a means for comparing the rate of crime over extended periods of time . |
| 14 | It is here that theorisations which see the nuclear family as a means for controlling the working class in the ‘ interests of capitalism ’ can be seen to be inadequate . |
| 15 | This in turn must lead to a single ‘ compensatory ’ and complementary fiscal and taxation authority and thus to the surrender by the nation states of the means for controlling the material well-being and destiny of their citizens . |
| 16 | In accordance with your instructions of the 11th August , plans have been prepared and are herewith submitted for your consideration of a Lift or Slide to take the place of the 10 Locks that now serve as the means for passing the Traffic at Foxton Locks . |
| 17 | Similarly , in twenty years ' time , the threat of the new media may prove to be no more than a means for liberating the viewer from the duopoly 's straightjacket . |
| 18 | The latter use the word which ? or what sort of ? , as in fact do all attributives , whereas the means for questioning the predicate qualifier is normally how ? ; ( 6 ) and ( 7 ) are examples : ( 6 ) they ca n't map the parts inaccessible : which parts ca n't they map ? the book missing was stolen by Twyford : which book was stolen by Twyford ? ( 7 ) Alastair likes his beef tea strong : how does Alastair like his beef tea ? we find the prisoner guilty : how do you find the prisoner ? |
| 19 | For I believe educational evaluation , in its broad interpretation , is the sole means for ensuring the progressive and enlightened development of the people the educational system serves . |
| 20 | A further difficulty is that the current legislation provides no means for combating the growth of the tacit or informal collusion which has come to replace the formal agreements of earlier years . |
| 21 | The FMC regulations also provide a means for notifying the public of the requirements and availability of surety bonds and enable ocean carriers to ascertain whether they are doing business with an untariffed or unbonded NVOCC . |
| 22 | He had a European reputation , military experience , and the means for commanding the service of knights . |
| 23 | Familiarity with industrial processes also better equips an officer to handle encounters with dischargers , offering a means for judging the ‘ truth ’ of any account offered in explanation of a pollution . |
| 24 | It would be convenient to be able to write an instruction to add into the accumulator the contents of store address 99 , and to have some automatic means for modifying the instruction just prior to its execution , so that it refers successively to addresses 100 , 101 , 102 , and so on . |
| 25 | It should be apparent from the brief description given that a contract audit is capable of providing a means for improving the management and control of a contract . |
| 26 | The ERM is sometimes justified as a means for beating the currency speculator . |
| 27 | They did this over two weeks , but there was no means of knowing the energies of the neutrons , the essential information that would tell them whether they were from the fusion of deuterium and be the final proof . |
| 28 | Nothing in the system tells the operator when he has reached the desired temperature ; he can influence the temperature but he has no direct means of knowing the result . |
| 29 | Within Thailand , the mothers of sought-after baby primates , such as gibbons , are shot out of trees as a means of capturing the young . |
| 30 | But why chose this as a means of capturing the hearer 's attention ? |