Example sentences of "means [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To be precise , a former tied cottage , which was cheap enough to be within their means for two reasons — it is remote , and it has a power pylon growing in its back garden . |
| 2 | The drugs barons often win the support of the poor because they provide the means for entire communities to make a living . |
| 3 | Over the last ten years , the model of the multi-disciplinary community team has become one of the central means for developing services for mentally handicapped people . |
| 4 | Hence the parliamentary leaders dominated the mass party , which was conceived only as a means for contesting elections . |
| 5 | Where an officer wants to see what a new or unconsented discharge consists of , therefore , or where his own judgment suggests that a discharge may be polluting , he turns to his sample bucket , which offers the ultimate means for practical purposes of establishing the kind and degree of pollution . |
| 6 | It would be helpful , therefore , for Gould and colleagues to report the number of men with microalbuminuria in both samples and the size of the difference in height between men in this group and men without albuminuria when the means for both groups are standardised to the same age distribution . |
| 7 | In this context what is the significance of the ironic statement prohibiting ‘ blacking up ’ given its double connotation as a practice of camouflage used in night-time military manoeuvres , and as a means for white entertainers to impersonate blacks ? |
| 8 | Soil mixtures provide the means for some types of adhesion : an inorganic soil may form a matrix with another or it may form a discreet layer to which another soil might adhere if it can not adhere to the base substrate . |
| 9 | Adoption has primarily been seen as a means for infertile couples to gain a family , but other people may also choose to adopt : birth relations eg , grandparents ; step-relations ; those wishing to increase their family and offer a child a home ; families already fostering the child ; families with hereditary illness which can affect their biological children . |
| 10 | : As a result of Act 1414/1984 , as construed in the light of Directive 76/207 , that is , in conformity with the wording and the spirit and purpose thereof , the employer is not allowed when announcing a public open competition for the hiring of personnel , to infringe the principle of sex equality with respect to either the means for attracting candidates or the criteria of their assessment . |
| 11 | Findings based on very limited evidence can not be regarded as being firmly established and need to be verified by means of additional observations and cases . |
| 12 | Co-operation within a colony , especially by means of labour-dividing castes , is probably what ants are most famous for . |
| 13 | Information for the follow up study was collected by means of personal interviews , death certificates , and records from hospitals and nursing homes . |
| 14 | The manager will want to monitor employees ( because his pay or worth depends on it ) in an efficient way , creating incentives for operatives to supply effort by means of specific elements in the pay scheme . |
| 15 | Often such societies lack legal machinery , as they lack state institutions generally , and so this sort of diffuse sanction can be the most important means of punishing offenders against society 's norms . |
| 16 | Typically the means of issuing commands using this system has been via a window-icon-mouse-pop-up menu ( WIMP ) display , where the mouse is used to point at icons or menus in windows ( which are subsets of the screen working area ) . |
| 17 | Ultimately , loans were granted to customers by means of issuing notes or crediting their accounts with deposits ( loans ) in excess of the gold stock held by the goldsmith . |
| 18 | The system 's linguistic knowledge is expressed by means of declarative rules and lexical entries . |
| 19 | Rather than those who regard threats of castration and being burnt at the stake as a legitimate means of encouraging suspects to help with their enquiries . |
| 20 | Rather than those who regard threats of castration and being burnt at the stake as a legitimate means of encouraging suspects to help with their enquiries . |
| 21 | Granting respite from debts was a means of encouraging men to serve in the army , and in Edward I 's and Edward II 's reigns each campaign was prefaced by a whole series of respites granted by the Exchequer . |
| 22 | By means of explicit priorities the centre aimed to manoeuvre the localities into promoting long-term clients up the league table of social care . |
| 23 | Under severe campaigning requirements , soldiers could miss both spring planting and autumn harvest , but all campaigning ceased for winter although sieges were sometimes maintained through the winter months by means of entrenched camps and containing earthworks . |
| 24 | The Emperor wanted to raise a city as a memorial to his rule ; for , as the contemporary historian Qandhari observed : ‘ A good name for Kings is achieved by means of lofty buildings … that is to say , the standard of the measure of men is assessed by the worth of their buildings . ’ |
| 25 | This is a means of developing links with parents . |
| 26 | The neatest and most popular way of implementing full-wave rectification is by means of four diodes arranged in a Wheatstone bridge formation as shown in figure 7.1(b) . |
| 27 | The great and impregnable fortress is accessible by means of four highways built on lofty viaducts . |
| 28 | The Grand Trunk Canal ( 1766–77 ) not only made use of aqueducts , cuttings and embankments , but was carried through the hill country between the Mersey and Trent basins by means of five tunnels , of which the Harecastle Tunnel near Kidsgrove was 2,880 yards long and more than two hundred feet beneath the surface at its deepest point . |
| 29 | The building was originally constructed as a brick core which was then covered with thin slabs of marble tied to the brick by means of ferrous cramps . |
| 30 | Iris Murdoch 's fiction has centred rather on a search for goodness , most often by means of loving relationships ; Amis 's with a sense of decorum and indecorum — with social habits and rules made , altered and broken by the changing generations . |