Example sentences of "means [prep] deal with the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Industrial waste incinerators of significant size have , in the past , been subject to control by Her Majesty 's inspectorate of pollution , acting under air pollution control legislation , with plant being required to adopt the best practical means for dealing with the materials coming into the sites . |
| 2 | The first involves teaching the patient alternative means of dealing with the feelings of tension which precede cutting , and the second involves psychotherapeutic measures aimed at improving the patient 's self-esteem , and her ability to communicate feelings and needs . |
| 3 | Kent County Council , at least , has ben persuaded of the value of the Hybrid Bill and appears to favour it as a means of dealing with the Channel Tunnel Rail Link . |
| 4 | Play and reading are concerned with preparation , with providing the means of dealing with the problems and opportunities of human life . |
| 5 | A study had been launched into the recording , reporting and presentation of criminal statistics , and research ‘ into the causes of crime and the effectiveness of the means of dealing with the criminals ’ was going ahead . |
| 6 | One is the move towards creating alliances , as means of dealing with the problems of rising resource costs just to stay in the game . |
| 7 | In these , he adopts a Kantian constructivist position which proposes certain basic categories through which alone the world may be apprehended , but recasts them as dynamic forms achieved only through a long process of interaction with the environment , in which the infant develops cognitive abilities as a means of dealing with the world . |
| 8 | Here , if one animal is attacked by another above it in the status-hierarchy , the attacked animal , rather than fighting back , instead directs its aggression against some inferior — a means of dealing with the situation which is open to all except the most subordinate member of the group . |