Example sentences of "means [coord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The secondary resource should provide a means or a vehicle for driving through this pain barrier experienced by many children , but apparently not recognised by many teachers . |
| 2 | Few have the means or the inclination to do so . |
| 3 | ‘ Do you know what this drawing means or the significance of the seed cake ? ’ |
| 4 | In the owner-occupied and privately rented housing sectors old people do not often have the means or the energy to make use of improvement grants . |
| 5 | No ruler , possibly other than in Italy , had the means or the wish to employ large forces when there was no war . |
| 6 | well so that 's how it 's pleaded and that 's how we built it into the , these cases which I was referring to where an agreement is the object or the , the means or the consequence of an agreement , they enforce within five , the action is unlawful and of course there 's the final and fourth way in which it could be devoured this , because it , and again quoting the words from the cases , tends to have restricted affect on the market , I think your Lordship you can see how we pleaded it in paragraph two , two , three , it 's enforcing the consequence of the unlawful underline previous . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , with repeated French insinuations that they had neither the means nor the intention of reconquering Vietnam , it obviously came as a shock to the US to discover that this was exactly what France seemed to have in mind . |
| 8 | Generally , it is thought that because they are disproportionately found in the hard to let properties , that they will have neither the means nor the desire to buy . |
| 9 | The Gold Standard , Bretton Woods , the Sterling Area , the unofficial Deutschmark peg , and the ERM have all provided both the means and the excuse for doing so . |
| 10 | The only leeway occasionally permitted to Member States is the ability to choose the means and the pace of implementing a policy : a Commission Regulation is applicable in all Member States equally , while a Directive specifies the end , but leaves the Member States free to adopt the method . |
| 11 | These have resulted in the better definition of defect dependent growth , morphological control by physical and chemical means and the influence of structure in both the surface and the dispersed phase on the growth process . |
| 12 | The heirs of the executed and forfeited rebels lacked the means and the backing to use force to regain what their fathers had lost , and the enemies Edward had made in the extreme north by concluding a truce with the Scots were in no position to make their influence felt . |
| 13 | But the attack on words is only another social crime — one against the means and the hope of communication . |
| 14 | You had the means and the opportunity . ’ |
| 15 | Given the fact that the temporal relation between means and end is clearly one of before to after , and the fact that when used with an infinitive how denotes the means and the infinitive the end , our hypothesis leads us to predict that to should be found after how . |
| 16 | The party 's tune has changed , but the means and the objective are still the same , as four devastating bombs have underlined since Wednesday . |
| 17 | The means may be likened to a seed , the end to a tree ; and there is just the same inviolable connexion between the means and the end as there is between the seed and the tree … |
| 18 | And the answer was nothing unless you actually wish to attack China and er defeat China through military means and the task of doing that of course was enormously out of proportion to the original er cause of the war . |
| 19 | And the answer was nothing unless you actually wish to attack China and er defeat China through military means and the task of doing that of course was enormously out of proportion to the original er cause of the war . |
| 20 | v. Laughton that was a clear case of unlawful means and the approval should be read with that in mind . |
| 21 | You will note that the verb ‘ reconcile ’ occurs five times — that in some mysterious way God reconciled the world to himself and that Christ was the means and the focus of reconciliation . |
| 22 | I had n't enough money to get there by conventional means but no matter . |
| 23 | The difference between the two is a debate over means but the end — namely freedom — remains the same . |