Example sentences of "means of [verb] such " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Where high-quality digitizing is not justified , for example in cases where a ‘ picture ’ of a map is required simply as a background , then TV camera input is a cost-effective means of providing such a raster backdrop . |
| 3 | Our means of removing such spectacles is by way of horizontal or lateral thinking ( see the works of Edward de Bono ) . |
| 4 | Obligations and rights arise for States members of an international organisation from the provisions of a treaty to which that organisation is a party when the parties to the treaty intend those provisions to be the means of establishing such obligations and according such rights and have defined their conditions and effects in the treaty or have otherwise agreed thereon , and if : |
| 5 | Indeed , we saw at the beginning that this was the principal reason for culture in the first place : it was a means of containing such anti-social antagonisms in what was , for a gelada-like hominid , a novel mode of subsistence which demanded considerable social cooperation , altruism and restraint . |
| 6 | The image of modernism as artefact is in this sense a totalizing image using the project of art as its means of accomplishing such totality ( compare Gell 1986 for the ability of the commodity to perform this function in a non-industrial context ) . |
| 7 | Held , allowing the appeal , ( 1 ) that the appropriate means of achieving fairness to an accused with regard to disclosure to the defence of material in the prosecution 's possession was a matter to be determined by the particular legislature , executive and judiciary concerned ; that although the Jamaican practice , particularly in relation to inconsistent previous statements , would normally be an acceptable means of achieving such fairness it did not extend to every situation in which fairness required the prosecution to make material available to the defence ; that where the prosecution intended a witness 's evidence to be based on his statement to the police and to deviate significantly from his deposition , the prosecution was under a duty to supply the defence with a copy of the statement before the trial ; and that , therefore , since the deceased 's husband and sister had given evidence inconsistent with their statements , and important testimony had been adduced from them which had not been foreshadowed in their depositions , the failure to disclose their statements to the defence constituted a material irregularity ( post , pp. 161H — 162A , B , B–C , 165C–E ) . |
| 8 | His report on means of achieving such a Union was adopted by the European Council at Madrid in June 1989 , when the Prime Ministers unanimously agreed to prepare for an Inter-governmental Conference on EMU , including the social dimension as an essential element . |
| 9 | Workers would prefer to be at point C rather than point A in Figure 5.1 , while employers would be maximizing profit at point C as well as point A. Despite the scope for a Pareto-improvement in welfare if the real wage were reduced to w * ; , the means of achieving such an improvement are absent in a money using economy . |
| 10 | Discussion of each individual 's understanding of the overdose can be a potent means of initiating such communication , as well as allowing expression of feelings about the act ( p. 23 ) . |
| 11 | The recent trend toward cognitive approaches to metaphor provides a means of formalizing such a conception . |
| 12 | And we use moral evaluations about food and sex and homicide and dress and the " proper " way of ordering a household as means of making such discriminations . |
| 13 | No means of identifying such material exists . |
| 14 | ‘ That the spy here must have special means of conveying such information to his master and has so far failed to use it . |
| 15 | Many of the familiar aspects of modernization , such as a rise of individualism and of specification in material culture use and scientific-rational order , may be traced in these studies , but the evidence provides a means of analysing such changes in terms of the structural organization of everyday objects for the population as a whole , and acts as a balance to the more common literary and self-reflective accounts or these changes . |