Example sentences of "means [prep] [Wh det] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The senses provide the means through which they drink in experience and personalise it . |
| 2 | They want control , Hal , and the House is the means through which they seek to get it . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 : |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | James 's next two necessary points ; reasonable opportunity of committing the crime and reasonable access to the means with which it was committed . |
| 13 | The policies which are adopted are important , but the means by which they are implemented will be critical to their effectiveness . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Already , too , one may see the start of a symbiotic relationship in which France would increasingly depend upon American resources to achieve purposes which , left to herself , would be beyond her , while American objectives , although they did not entirely coincide with the French and for all the power which they would ultimately deploy , had to include France as a frail but , for the moment , indispensable means by which they might be attained . |
| 19 | ( 5 ) the relative ignorance of teachers as to available materials and the means by which they might be acquired through the project and other county services |
| 20 | The men around Nixon who planned the escapade were not elected professional politicians , but mainly " west coast advertising types " concerned only to sell their " product " and not too worried over the means by which they achieved this end . |
| 21 | Watson also deserves credit for lifting the veil from Braidwood 's secret teaching methods by publishing after Braidwood 's death in 1806 a book entitled The Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb : or a theoretical and practical view of the means by which they are taught to speak and understand a language , which made the early technique of such teaching in this country public knowledge . |
| 22 | Whatever the means by which they were transported to their present location , many evolutionists agreed that species must undergo changes adapting them to the local environment . |
| 23 | Workers expect to have some control over the means by which they perform a set task , and they resent having means specified in too much detail . |
| 24 | We 've got to persuade them to invest in us — to make them see us as the means by which they can topple the Seven . ’ |
| 25 | Within that period there will continue to be stated periods for exchange of pleadings and other interlocutory steps since these provide a guide to parties and a means by which they can keep one another up to schedule . |
| 26 | One of the critical directions supported by recent work on the Renaissance is to render these other histories more visible and to examine the means by which they were hidden . |
| 27 | VE does not initially consider manufacturing methods , as would a cost reduction exercise , but starts by questioning the necessity of the functions and the means by which they are performed . |
| 28 | VE does not initially consider manufacturing methods , as would a cost reduction exercise , but starts by questioning the necessity of the functions and the means by which they are performed . |
| 29 | All were required to get official sanction for their enclosure and to provide evidence of the means by which they were to be physically provided for . |
| 30 | All we can do is shape the means by which they approach us and the terms on which they will live with us in the time to come , that we may keep our honour and our identity , and be their free neighbours and allies , not their villeins . |