Example sentences of "means [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The drugs barons often win the support of the poor because they provide the means for entire communities to make a living . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Hence the parliamentary leaders dominated the mass party , which was conceived only as a means for contesting elections . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | : 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Co-operation within a colony , especially by means of labour-dividing castes , is probably what ants are most famous for . |
| 10 | Information for the follow up study was collected by means of personal interviews , death certificates , and records from hospitals and nursing homes . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The system 's linguistic knowledge is expressed by means of declarative rules and lexical entries . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | By means of explicit priorities the centre aimed to manoeuvre the localities into promoting long-term clients up the league table of social care . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . ’ |
| 22 | This is a means of developing links with parents . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Grudgingly and haltingly , the trade unions were brought into line on incomes policy without any actual government diktat , and with increasingly little being offered in return , by means of emotive appeals to the national interest . |
| 26 | Lévi-Strauss ' counter argument was that ‘ the universe is an object of thought at least as much as it is a means of satisfying needs ’ ( Goody , 1977 , p. 5 ) . |
| 27 | There was concern in some quarters that the resort to force would reduce the prospect of the peaceful resolution of subsequent international disputes by means of economic sanctions . |
| 28 | The dry suit is great for winter sailing because you can wear lots of warm layers underneath and the suit keeps them completely dry by means of watertight seals at the wrists and the neck but you must n't forget about the extremities either . |
| 29 | The Majlis now had 268 members , the results in two single-member constituencies having been declared invalid by the Council of Guardians ; re-runs for these two seats would be held by means of mid-term by-elections . |
| 30 | Although they had no objection to the presence of professional artists in schools as a means of stimulating pupils and demonstrating the valuable work which artists offered the community through their own professional activities , they were concerned that the artists in schools programme appeared to be subverting the search for a coherent arts programme for all pupils . |