Example sentences of "a [n mass] [prep] [verb] with the " in BNC.
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1 | Kent County Council , at least , has ben persuaded of the value of the Hybrid Bill and appears to favour it as a means of dealing with the Channel Tunnel Rail Link . |
2 | In these , he adopts a Kantian constructivist position which proposes certain basic categories through which alone the world may be apprehended , but recasts them as dynamic forms achieved only through a long process of interaction with the environment , in which the infant develops cognitive abilities as a means of dealing with the world . |
3 | Here , if one animal is attacked by another above it in the status-hierarchy , the attacked animal , rather than fighting back , instead directs its aggression against some inferior — a means of dealing with the situation which is open to all except the most subordinate member of the group . |
4 | For Schroder-Sonnenstern , who lived in psychiatric institutions from 1919 onwards , drawing was a means of communicating with the world . |
5 | Parliamentary sovereignty was felt to be compatible with the rule of law primarily because ‘ the commands of Parliament … can be uttered only through the combined actions of its three constituent parts ’ and that , ‘ unlike a sovereign monarch who is not only a legislator but a ruler , that is , head of the executive government , has never hitherto been able to use the powers of the government as a means of interfering with the regular course of law ’ . |
6 | Essentially , I am suggesting that what I am calling private metaphors were developed by managers as a means of coping with the dissonance between what is commonly accepted as being management theory and what they thought for themselves it ought to be in actuality . |