Example sentences of "means [prep] [Wh det] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such an ideal , shorn here of a class dimension , resonated with the belief of a majority of the working-class voters in West Ham after the war that the Labour Party was the only party able to represent their interests , overcome their frustrations and grievances , and provide the means through which their hopes could be realised . |
| 2 | A major objective of the seminar was ‘ to give the participants a means through which their ministries could be analysed in view of their identity and their role in the Church today ’ , according to an editorial in Catalyst . |
| 3 | The senses provide the means through which they drink in experience and personalise it . |
| 4 | They want control , Hal , and the House is the means through which they seek to get it . ’ |
| 5 | In a sense anti-perfectionism is merely a more radical restriction of the employment of means through which one may pursue conceptions of the good . |
| 6 | Land acquisition , site assembly , land reclamation , infrastructural improvement and environmental enhancement are the means through which it engages with local authorities , the Department of Environment and most importantly , the private sector to lever investment that will lead to economic growth . |
| 7 | The women 's organizations are also an important source of information for many refugees who would otherwise be isolated from events in their country and a channel by means of which they can express support for the revolutionary movement : |
| 8 | So the first people who made films , the first people who invented the apparatus by means of which they could be made , were relatively simple showmen or photographers , or in certain cases like Edison , erm the , you know a professional inventor , who would use either his staff to develop a piece of apparatus , or would do it himself . |
| 9 | The value of the ethological study of apes , monkeys and baboons is what it tells us about apes , monkeys and baboons ; only in very special circumstances , and in a very tentative way , should it be seen as a metaphorical alternative by means of which we can study man himself , as in a mirror . |
| 10 | What is more , it is close enough to the present day to be regarded as an illustration of the present-day processes by means of which we interpret the past . |
| 11 | There are no means that I know of , perhaps some social scientists present could suggest some , by means of which you could actually assess just what sort of a contribution he made . |
| 12 | Lewis came to the faith by means of what one could loosely term Neo-Platonism . |
| 13 | By means of what one might call ‘ fancy tunings ’ , in which certain notes are reduplicated enharmonically ( e.g. E ♯ on the E string , and F ♭ on the F ) , glissandos other than ordinary major and minor scales can be obtained , provided every string is accounted for . |
| 14 | This principle limits the degree to which state agencies and provisions in the area of welfare can take over responsibilities from individuals or from smaller , ‘ natural ’ units , upholding instead the rights of individuals to secure and shape the means with which they shape their role in society autonomously ( von Nell-Breuning , 1976 ) . |
| 15 | Planning requires the identification of tasks and matching the means with which they may be carried out in the time available and under the conditions prevailing . |
| 16 | There is always a closed circle of suspects ( so there can be no question of someone unconnected with the setting coming in from outside and doing the deed , as might well happen in " real life " ) and each of these suspects has to have a credible motive as well as reasonable opportunity of committing the crime and reasonable access to the means with which it was committed . |
| 17 | James 's next two necessary points ; reasonable opportunity of committing the crime and reasonable access to the means with which it was committed . |
| 18 | What DNA has over normal crystals is a means by which its information can be read . |
| 19 | His interest was to ensure that poetry was read with the right kind of attention , not to analyze or explain the textual means by which its effect is achieved . |
| 20 | Another lyric makes even more explicit this identification of life in time with the Crucifixion as the only means by which its true value may be realised : Such lyrics embody an understanding of the process of transfiguration at the heart of the Christian faith which is realised by the mystics in experience and gestured towards in their texts . |
| 21 | These ‘ search questions ’ are the usual means by which one ‘ tells ’ identity in Northern Ireland , but they were used particularly by policemen and women to tell , as they interpret it , which ‘ sort ’ of Catholic the field-worker was . |
| 22 | They are just the means by which one refers to clusters . |
| 23 | It was noted in the introduction to Chapter 21 that , if planning represented the route map for the journey , then organizing represented the means by which one could arrive at the chosen destination . |
| 24 | Some organizations see it as an extension of their production process , others as the means by which their product or service is brought to the attention of the marketplace . |
| 25 | If designers , developers and publishers are ever to utilise multimedia to the full , they will need to transform not only their concepts of content and presentation but the means by which their customers participate in the medium . |
| 26 | The policies which are adopted are important , but the means by which they are implemented will be critical to their effectiveness . |
| 27 | Both combined lead to political conclusions which are in some ways akin to those of Rawls : political action should be concerned with providing individuals with the means by which they can develop , which enable them to choose and attempt to realize their own conception of the good . |
| 28 | In short , rapid population growth was a result of poverty and this asked fundamental questions about access and control over the means of production as well as the technical means by which they were developed . |
| 29 | ‘ Defence has been perfected to a remarkable degree , ’ he said , ‘ and I have heard it suggested that through its further development football may be brought to a state of stalemate … it will be a sorry reflection on forwards if they have not the intelligence , the inventiveness to devise means by which they can carry their attack to a successful end . ’ |
| 30 | The hypocrisy of the murderers , then , is the means by which they both gained trust — ‘ Fair and noble hostess , /We are your guest tonight ’ were among Duncan 's last words — and destroyed it . |