Example sentences of "means [prep] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The remaining chapters are concerned with the use of tert -butyl groups as a means for minimising kinetic reactivity of systems such as tetrahedrane , developments with homologues of barrelene and bullvalene , and two on the current status of polyhedrane chemistry , especially the ‘ Mount Everest of alicyclic chemistry ’ , dodecahedrane . |
| 2 | A social group may be deprived by missionaries or a new education system or access to their own historically inherited forms , and a mere glimpse of the possibilities of industrial culture , without the means for appropriating that culture , is hardly an adequate substitute for such a loss . |
| 3 | Governments were supported by economic theorists in applying the prescriptions of short-term equilibrium analysis — and thereby supposedly maintaining at or near the full employment of resources — as the means for achieving long-term growth . |
| 4 | The strategy advocated here may not be the only means for achieving systematic internal verification . |
| 5 | The managed mixed economy and a highly developed system of collective social provision were the means for achieving these values . |
| 6 | He points to the irrationality of this assumption and makes the seemingly rather obvious point that ‘ Torture … is an infallible means for absolving robust scoundrels and for condemning innocent persons who happen to be weak ’ ( p. 32 ) . |
| 7 | I have to count on the symbol itself as providing the main evidence for meaning and , of course , as providing the means for creating schematic knowledge which 1 do not have in advance . |
| 8 | Grice suggests that the maxims are in fact not arbitrary conventions , but rather describe rational means for conducting cooperative exchanges . |
| 9 | In particular , they provide means for accomplishing certain tasks . |
| 10 | In the case of international law what the institutions of positive law have to offer is a means for settling dangerous disputes and limiting the destructive powers which could be used to resolve those disputes in an unacceptable manner . |
| 11 | In the third section of the book a far more detailed grounding of the process will be attempted as a means for understanding mass consumption . |
| 12 | This does not follow , however , from Simmel 's approach ; for him , the Walbiri 's intimate relation to the objective forms taken by their social products , and their classifications of the landscape , might well have appeared more ‘ cultured ’ than the attitudes of his German contemporaries , who , in spite of having at their disposal the enormous possibilities of mass culture , did not possess the means for assimilating these into the development of person or group . |
| 13 | In the first case , democracy is conceived only as a means for selecting political leaders , and not as a regime in which there is some kind of direct rule by the people . |
| 14 | The addition of the necessary chemicals can be made at the same time , and the plant requires means for adding these , mixing them with the water to give time for interaction , and removing the precipitate by sedimentation , usually by some variation of the " upward-flow " type of tank . |
| 15 | By this process , fashion emerges as the means for continuing those forms of social discrimination previously regulated by sumptuary rulings . |
| 16 | It is immediately apparent from this matrix that most of our information resources lack efficient means for exploiting those resources . |
| 17 | ‘ Unitary authorities provide the best means for securing local services at the lowest cost . ’ |
| 18 | The principal means for educating Nonconformist ministers were the various denominational colleges . |
| 19 | The major means for doing this is to encourage doctors and health authorities to seek care where it can mostly cheaply and efficiently be provided . |
| 20 | Questions , debates , committee hearings , parliamentary procedure for removing the executive from power — these are the usual means for doing this . |
| 21 | As well as providing a means for analysing social process , the rationality of communicative action provides the basis for the understanding of an interpreter of that action : |
| 22 | With regard to description , computer analysis of text provides the means for identifying these expressions since their normality is a function of their occurrence as holistic units . |
| 23 | The three groups represent errors of increasing complexity and difficulty of handling , such that those in groups 2 and 3 require intimate knowledge of the data , their structure and the algorithms used and some means of converting this knowledge into quantitative measures of impact . |
| 24 | All these provide indirect means of converting solar energy to forms of energy which are useful to us . |
| 25 | Licentiateship , Graduateship , Membership and Fellowship awards are available as a means of recognising professional competence to the highest levels . |
| 26 | After 1981 , the Securitate and other security forces were used as the prime means of settling industrial disputes and demonstrations . |
| 27 | The Italian parliament after protracted debate approved on Jan. 16 ( by 382 to 201 in the Chamber of Deputies and by 190 to 96 in the Senate ) a motion providing for Italian participation in an " international policing operation " to secure Iraqi withdrawal from Kuwait ; the wording was significant in that Italy 's Constitution forbade recourse to war as a means of settling international disputes . |
| 28 | The SDPJ claimed that the bill , like its predecessor , was an attempt to nullify Article 9 of Japan 's Constitution which stated that the Japanese people " forever renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation and the threat or use of force as a means of settling international disputes " . |
| 29 | While such a statement has concern for a woman in her cultural context in India , to use it as a means of evoking emotive reaction to persuade people to give money in this country is to perpetuate the idea that a woman is not an independent human being and has to be sustained by a man , and that men only want ‘ pure , untouched , unviolated ’ women . |
| 30 | It is therefore in the interests of bureaucrats to go for increased staffing levels as a means of constructing such coalitions , and the implications of this clearly point to increased waste and inefficiency , since , having bid for a maximum budget , within that budget , instead of adopting the most efficient form of production and delivery of services , ‘ bureaucrats ’ can be expected to choose the most labour-intensive . |