Example sentences of "[n mass] of [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The engineers in charge stopped work and immediately informed Mr Cook and Dr Spencer Edwards M.B. of Hailing both founder members of the Medway Valley Scientific Society . |
| 2 | The three groups represent errors of increasing complexity and difficulty of handling , such that those in groups 2 and 3 require intimate knowledge of the data , their structure and the algorithms used and some means of converting this knowledge into quantitative measures of impact . |
| 3 | It is therefore in the interests of bureaucrats to go for increased staffing levels as a means of constructing such coalitions , and the implications of this clearly point to increased waste and inefficiency , since , having bid for a maximum budget , within that budget , instead of adopting the most efficient form of production and delivery of services , ‘ bureaucrats ’ can be expected to choose the most labour-intensive . |
| 4 | But , increasingly , their own shops were also a highly successful means of serving this end ; many young couples were buying the lightweight fabrics , because they were so cheap , and using them for furnishing . |
| 5 | Impressed by their officials ' strictures about the need for obeying government rules and directives as a means of maintaining some notion of good local government and the good opinion of Central Government , with a sense of loyalty and dependency towards their officials , and a feeling that their own integrity was at stake , they maintained the policy . |
| 6 | Where high-quality digitizing is not justified , for example in cases where a ‘ picture ’ of a map is required simply as a background , then TV camera input is a cost-effective means of providing such a raster backdrop . |
| 7 | Perhaps the Provisionals ' unexpected return to Warrington to inflict wicked carnage was a means of underlining that wearying message . |
| 8 | Do you want the exhibition to be a low-key means of getting some experience , or create and attract a lot of local media coverage ? |
| 9 | ‘ We do n't have any dark-brown stain and there 's no means of getting any . |
| 10 | Had the invader the means of taking these newly fortified places ? |
| 11 | Our means of removing such spectacles is by way of horizontal or lateral thinking ( see the works of Edward de Bono ) . |
| 12 | Not the least of its benefits is that a music group provides a means of involving more people , especially youngsters , in its life . |
| 13 | He has no means of influencing these processes . |
| 14 | The nickname was a contemporary one , a means of distinguishing this Charles from other Carolingians with the same name . |
| 15 | Obligations and rights arise for States members of an international organisation from the provisions of a treaty to which that organisation is a party when the parties to the treaty intend those provisions to be the means of establishing such obligations and according such rights and have defined their conditions and effects in the treaty or have otherwise agreed thereon , and if : |
| 16 | The Council 's newly formed Planning Department , staffed by relative newcomers to public administration , was extremely zealous in the application of the regulations in their strictest sense as a means of establishing both the importance of the planning function and the place of the department within the hierarchy of the Kirkwall administration . |
| 17 | Although the GMC issues recommendations about what the year should provide , it does not have any means of enforcing these . |
| 18 | If the target State is a party to any of the relevant conventions , humanitarian intervention can be categorised as a means of enforcing those treaty obligations on behalf of the victims . |
| 19 | Lord Hailsham carefully unpicked the shreds of legitimacy attaching to the established constitution and called for " nothing less than a written constitution for the United Kingdom , and by that I mean one which limits the powers of Parliament and-provides a means of enforcing those limitations both by political and by legal means " . |
| 20 | The conversation which follows is the last in the book , and the weakest , too , a stagey means of imparting some crucial news for Bellow to fulminate against all that is rotten and cynical in American youth . |
| 21 | In important respects , however , his longing was a self-deception , a poetically fruitful means of expressing that sense of loneliness and isolation which had been as much a part of him in Ottery as in London . |
| 22 | Comtek ‘ 92 can , it seems , still justifiably be billed as Russia 's main trade event : this year the show attracted over 70 hard currency-paying exhibitors , most of which were Western companies ; that so many companies are willing to pay $350 per square metre is testimony to the fact that the Russian market retains the interest of a significant portion of Western companies ; show organiser Crocus International says it invited 200,000 ‘ specialists ’ to the show , but in reality , Comtek has become a popular event in all senses of the word with most companies using the show as an opportunity for general exposure to the Russian market rather than as a means of generating many hard sales leads . |
| 23 | It emerged early on that each side was determined to deny the other the means of generating enough income not only to prosecute the war but also to govern the country . |
| 24 | Indeed , we saw at the beginning that this was the principal reason for culture in the first place : it was a means of containing such anti-social antagonisms in what was , for a gelada-like hominid , a novel mode of subsistence which demanded considerable social cooperation , altruism and restraint . |
| 25 | Anything other than an uncritical acceptance is a direct challenge to the idea of the rule of law which has sustained the police since their inception and which argues that the replication of a known system of order is the best means of containing those who need to be controlled . |
| 26 | In addition , the use of neural net technology is being investigated as a means of including some learning features useful to the diagnostic process . |
| 27 | In the context of taking opportunities to improve communication and coordination the Green Paper states that : ‘ this may lead to the establishment of a means of coordinating all aspects of the auditing profession , for example a single over-arching body for audit governance . ’ |
| 28 | The image of modernism as artefact is in this sense a totalizing image using the project of art as its means of accomplishing such totality ( compare Gell 1986 for the ability of the commodity to perform this function in a non-industrial context ) . |
| 29 | ‘ The means of accomplishing these points did not immediately present themselves : but early in 1765 it occurred to me that , if a communication were opened between a cylinder containing steam and another vessel which was exhausted of air and other fluids , would immediately rush into the empty vessel , and continue to do so until it had established an equilibrium : and if that vessel were kept cool by an injection , or otherwise , more steam would continue to enter until the whole was condensed ’ . |
| 30 | Thus Moore 's methodology points inevitably to his main ethical conclusion , which is that nothing , or at least very little , is to any great degree good except for cases of personal affection and the enjoyment of beautiful objects and that everything in life which does not come under these heads has barely any value apart from whatever it may have as a means of promoting these great goods . |