Example sentences of "[n mass] of [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm often accusing people of abusing you when you were a child is quite , in some ways , quite a risky thing to do because they , understandably perhaps , get rather huffy about it . |
| 2 | This was most evident on the wide plains of the south-western United States and several parts of South America , where cattle multiplied virtually without human effort , herded by gauchos , llaneros , vaqueros and cowboys , and called loudly to all profit-minded citizens for means of converting it into money . |
| 3 | My problem in Dalmellington was not so much getting a drink , but in actually devising a means of drinking it . |
| 4 | Even so , she had no means of recognising them and to wade through three hundred-odd pages in search of some unidentified reference would be a formidable task and probably not worth the effort . |
| 5 | It is as if there is an element of delayed action with centesimals and we have no means of knowing what the final extent of reaction will be without waiting . |
| 6 | Only several weeks later , as she lay stifling in her cabin on a filthy steamer from Trebizond , did she reflect that the Kurd , in the whole time he had been with them , had executed Miss Fergusson 's commands with punctiliousness and honour ; further , that she had no means of knowing what had passed between the two of them that last night in the cave . |
| 7 | I had no means of knowing what sort of line I had kept on my cross-country stumble , but it had been NNE as near as I could make it . |
| 8 | This can be difficult because the consumer has no means of knowing what goes on ( or went on ) in the factory . |
| 9 | And is there a relatively simple means of knowing what the transfer value is that you are entitled to ? |
| 10 | But Same should give the driver some means of knowing which lever works which hydraulic coupler . |
| 11 | On the other hand , Jenner introduced vaccination when he neither knew nor had any means of knowing anything about viruses . |
| 12 | Every firm has a different means of calculating its own costs ' structure , but it is important to be able to provide a definitive response ; indeed it is recommended practice . |
| 13 | And now , my dear Sir , having said this much on behalf of this deserving Youth , I must beg to assure you that however zealous my wish to be the means of serving him and his poor Mother , I do not wish , on that account , to influence you — Quite the contrary — I know that in similar cases , your benevolent views have been disappointed , and , perhaps , you have consequently made arrangements for the Future which may render it ineligible to take any youth in the same way as proposed to his Brother — even if you have at present — or are likely in course of a year or two — to have a vacancy . |
| 14 | The National Front and other crypto-fascist fringe-groups have consciously attempted to use football as a means of spreading their ideology amongst young white workers and have specifically targeted certain clubs such as West Ham and Millwall . |
| 15 | Having gone down with the monarchy in the 1640s and learnt from that experience that its fortunes were closely dependent on those of the crown , the established church was more than ever determined to shore up the monarchy as a means of guaranteeing its own survival . |
| 16 | They also remarked with astonishment a sort of combat between God and her without being able to determine whether God was more occupied in seeking in the secrets of his wisdom the means of exercising her by suffering than she was disposed to suffer for his love ; for she showed an incredible avidity for crosses and an invincible patience over her trials and over every affliction which Almighty God sent to exercise her love and fidelity . |
| 17 | As a means of assuring us that the management of large public companies do not wield arbitrary power it is unsatisfactory . |
| 18 | The means of salvaging something of the disposition is to recognize that so far as the daughter has benefited under her father 's will she may be obliged by a trust . |
| 19 | Whereas some Orcadians see certain advantages in living in one of the Mainland 's urban centres there are many more who appreciate the benefits of building a house of their own in their home parish , not only as a means of maintaining their links with family , friends , and neighbours but as a means of benefitting from cheap family or friends ' land for building . |
| 20 | However , as time progressed they took up the argument of legislation requirement and professional competence as a form of self-defence and as a means of maintaining their professional standing not only in their own eyes , but in the eyes of other planners , and in the eyes of their fellow colleagues in Kirkwall . |
| 21 | The Cattle of the Cottagers are impounded when the Forest is driven by the Keepers , as all other Cattle are ; and when the Owners take them from the Pound ( paying the usual Fees to the Keepers ) they turn them again into the Forest , having no other Means of maintaining them … the Cottagers … are detrimental to the Forest , by cutting Wood for Fuel , and for building Huts , and making Fences to the Patches which they inclose from the Forest ; by keeping Pigs , Sheep etc. in the Forest all the Year ; and by stealing Timber . |
| 22 | Whatever the size of land or terrace you have at your disposal , a little lateral thinking will prove that there are always ways and means of providing yourself with enough plant material to experiment with the very enjoyable pastime of pressing flowers . |
| 23 | Merchant princes did not forget their native towns and counties and the people there who might want for the means of providing themselves with even the most basic tools of their trade . |
| 24 | Energy , the means of providing it and how it should be priced , are social and political minefields , particularly , in democracies . |
| 25 | ‘ But it is a substantial amount of money and we have tried the conventional means of reclaiming it without success . |
| 26 | This latter point was of considerable importance as Brown restricted all donations to $100 or less , as a means of underlining his campaign 's opposition to conventional US " money politics " . |
| 27 | Negotiation is therefore a means of getting what you want from other people and as such qualifies as a tricky situation ( see page 168 ) , where the way you behave is a make or break factor . |
| 28 | Lessees are sometimes astonished to be told that in spite of obtaining planning permission with their landlord 's knowledge , they still require his consent and if he is not inclined to give it , the means of getting him to agree can be difficult , slow and expensive . |
| 29 | Many look upon them as an opportunity to put training into practice , or as a means of getting their first introduction to the tasks that will face them should they be posted to Northern Ireland . |
| 30 | But he was singing ; people only do that either if they are drunk or if they are trying to collect some money , in which case they will sing and sing all day , having no other means of getting it . |