Example sentences of "means [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is to say that there was available neither the will nor the means to drive through the revolution which would have established Owen 's new order . |
| 2 | In extreme cases this may involve a deliberate distortion of the exchange price , or a means to profit at the expense of customers , typically where the broker fills the customer 's trade at a price that is worse than he could have obtained by competitive trading , in order to benefit another trader . |
| 3 | Such activities were by no means limited to the slave trade . |
| 4 | Perhaps the most convincing indication of a dent in poverty is marketing information showing that the boom in consumer durables in the 1980s was by no means limited to the top 10% of the population . |
| 5 | ‘ In this section , section 84 , Schedule 12 and Schedule 13 … ‘ action ’ includes any failure to act , and so as regards ‘ exercise ’ in relation to any power ; and ‘ action , ’ in relation to a society , includes action on its behalf by any body associated with it ; ‘ prescribed , ’ in relation to matters of complaint , means prescribed for the time being in Part II of Schedule 12 and , in relation to the respects in which a complainant is affected by any action , means prescribed for the time being in Part III of that Schedule as grounds for making action subject to investigation under the scheme ; … |
| 6 | ‘ In this section , section 84 , Schedule 12 and Schedule 13 … ‘ action ’ includes any failure to act , and so as regards ‘ exercise ’ in relation to any power ; and ‘ action , ’ in relation to a society , includes action on its behalf by any body associated with it ; ‘ prescribed , ’ in relation to matters of complaint , means prescribed for the time being in Part II of Schedule 12 and , in relation to the respects in which a complainant is affected by any action , means prescribed for the time being in Part III of that Schedule as grounds for making action subject to investigation under the scheme ; … |
| 7 | I have initiated him into the ‘ Secret Doctrine ’ , opened his centres of vision and given him the means to communicate with the Powers . |
| 8 | ‘ Did drive were a passenger ’ Passenger means carried in the vehicle . |
| 9 | Still , the Alvarez range is by no means confined to the self-consciously exotic : guitar-wise , there 's the non-scoop AED200 , a more conventional style of guitar which counterbalances the company 's more elaborate ambitions . |
| 10 | The fact that precious metals have so often been minted to serve as coins may serve to emphasize that precious substances are by no means confined to the summits of ecclesiastical or temporal power , even if their most prestigious manifestations were formerly concentrated on these . |
| 11 | Discrimination in the job market is by no means confined to the medical profession . |
| 12 | Indeed , such an observation is by no means confined to the service sectors discussed here , and is a result of service policy pressures much wider than ( and perhaps in opposition to ) concerns about the provision of high quality community support . |
| 13 | Poverty and deprivation are by no means confined to the North . |
| 14 | But this role is by no means confined to the Twelve . |
| 15 | Irresponsible behaviour was by no means confined to the evacuees . |
| 16 | Although laissez-faire was by no means discarded in the 1930s and the dead hand of economic orthodoxy , particularly in fiscal matters remained strong , there were signs of change in the stance of government in some areas . |
| 17 | in the Court of Appeal , ‘ in view of the historic struggle of the legislature to secure for itself the sole power to levy money upon the subject , its complete success in that struggle , the elaborate means adopted by the representative House to control the amount , the conditions and the purpose of the levy , the circumstances would be remarkable indeed which would induce the court to believe that the legislature had sacrificed all the well-known checks and precautions , and , not in express words , but merely by implication , had entrusted a Minister of the Crown with undefined and unlimited powers of imposing charges upon the subject for purposes connected with his department . ’ |
| 18 | The same applies with even greater reason to the domicile requirement , which , according to the United Kingdom , is a more stringent requirement than mere residence and means living in the member state with the intent to make it a fixed and permanent home . |
| 19 | It was certainly clear , as the 1970s drew to a close , that the nationalities question was by no means destined for the historical obsolescence to which official spokesmen wished to consign it , and even Brezhnev , recommending the adoption of the 1977 Constitution , warned that it would be not just unLeninist but actually ‘ dangerous ’ if the steady convergence of the Soviet nations were artificially accelerated . |
| 20 | Thirst , for instance , is not a cultural issue , but the means selected by the individual to slake his thirst — tea , coffee , fruit juices , etc — is influenced by his cultural background . |
| 21 | ‘ Widely accepted ’ of course means accepted by the Secretary of State , after an appropriate process of consultation and through a process of parliamentary approval , about which more below . |
| 22 | Holism is the view that the meanings of sentences are interdependent , so that what one means depends upon the meanings of others , and can be changed by a change elsewhere . |
| 23 | Not all the evidence by any means concurs with the view that women were actually superior to men in some respects . |
| 24 | And women have not been present in those circles with the result that they have been deprived of the means to participate in the construction of forms of thought which are relevant or adequate to express their own experience , ( Spender , 1981 , p. 3 ) . |
| 25 | The ‘ drift into a law and order society ’ which Hall identifies did not by any means begin with the accession to power of the Conservative Party under Mrs Thatcher in 1979 , and its effects have hardly disappeared with her resignation in 1990 , but the ideology made its presence most felt in her heyday in the early to mid-1990s ( see Chapter 10 ) . |
| 26 | The two floors , with a total of 1500 square metres , have been divided into three sections : sculpture , casts and models of works of art accompanied by acoustic and braille information ; works by the blind ; mechanical means used by the blind to gain access to the world of art during the last 200 years . |
| 27 | They are the means used by the writers and the early church to express their own awareness of the significance of Jesus who , as the Founder of Christianity , had been the first to discover the deep truth that God and man are one . |
| 28 | A greater concentration on Greece , however , was envisaged in the remaining parts , whose headings were " the tragic masks " ( meaning , among other things , tragic characters ) , " the death of tragedy " , and " the means used by the Hellenic will to achieve its goal , the genius " . |
| 29 | The other aspect Mr Mayor that I , that I want t to dwell on is the thing about housing benefits themselves , there 's been a lot of talk by a lot of speakers about benefits and er means testing in the years gone by and well okay I 'll give councillor a few more years than I have , I do n't remember the forties because I was born towards the end of them but , y'know , maybe that happened . |
| 30 | it follows from this that ‘ it is characteristic of all unproductive labourers that they are at my command … only to the same extent as I exploit productive labourers … however , my power to employ productive labourers by no means grows in the same proportion as I employ unproductive labourers , but on the contrary diminishes in the same proportion . ’ |