Example sentences of "[vb base] the [n mass] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because of debts they are often forced to sell their land and therefore lose the means of livelihood that their family has known and understood over the generations . |
| 2 | If we push the people to the limits of poverty , we will wreck the reforms , ’ Mr Volkogonov said . |
| 3 | When we are studying a multiple-objective problem with a view to calculating efficient points , we will speak of a vector maximisation problem ( VMP ) and display the data with the objective functions above the constraints as in the following example , P1 . |
| 4 | McDonald outlines it thus : ‘ A : find the best artists you can ; B : keep them in a creative mood so that they make the best records they can , and C : maximise the sales of the records everywhere without turning it into a real form of drudgery for them . ’ |
| 5 | Boots Across Scotland sponsor the series of lectures as a positive donation towards mountain safety awareness . |
| 6 | The burden of this increasing sense of isolation has fallen particularly heavily upon those members of the rural population who lack the means of personal mobility to maintain a more dispersed network of social contacts . |
| 7 | Lay the plaice on a board skinned side up and place a strip of salmon on top , patching with more salmon , if this becomes necessary . |
| 8 | Rub the fish on both sides with the salt and let it stand for 20 minutes . |
| 9 | Victor 's job is to climb mango trees and pick the fruit for his father to sell in the city three hours away . |
| 10 | His purpose is that we might have the gifts of the spirit and develop the fruit of the spirit . |
| 11 | Data archives store , catalogue , index and disseminate the data for further contemporary or historical research . |
| 12 | The only sense in which the legislature can be properly said to have authorised these things to be done is that it has enabled the Poor Law Board to order , and the managers to do them , if , and when , and where , they can obtain by free bargain and contract the means of doing so . |
| 13 | also , it goes without saying , I mean the people at the other end would probably like to see a copy before you start just for , to see if they can suggest |
| 14 | When we use the words , ‘ brothers ’ and ‘ sisters ’ we usually mean the people in our immediate families , but it can also mean other people in the world who might be in need of our help . |
| 15 | It 's the people , I mean the people in this room know a great deal more people than I do on my own for example . |
| 16 | I mean the people in the city the people in Peking have them , and the people out in the country do n't . |
| 17 | And I mean the media from their point of view is not getting across . |
| 18 | Through the medium of the program you can edit , add , erase and otherwise change the data to be stored in your data files . |
| 19 | Managers should not necessarily blame an employee for failures , but should determine whether the process is to blame , and involve the staff in improving the process . |
| 20 | However , we assume that since B is in continuous use in the business we wish to maintain our stock levels at 2,000kg , so we also replace the 2,000kg at £5/kg . |
| 21 | Such an ideal , shorn here of a class dimension , resonated with the belief of a majority of the working-class voters in West Ham after the war that the Labour Party was the only party able to represent their interests , overcome their frustrations and grievances , and provide the means through which their hopes could be realised . |
| 22 | The senses provide the means through which they drink in experience and personalise it . |
| 23 | Affiliation would secure the alliance , provide the means to a united front during elections , and , as far as the party was concerned , increase much needed revenue . |
| 24 | They are an essential element in the management process and they provide the means of participation of various interests . |
| 25 | Local Plans prepared by the District Councils require to be consistent with the Structure Plan and provide the means of implementing the Structure Plan through policies and proposals for specific sites and areas . |
| 26 | Local Plans , prepared by the District Councils require to be consistent with the Structure Plan and provide the means of implementing the Structure Plan through policies and proposals for specific sites and areas . |
| 27 | DCs are internal to LIFESPAN and they provide the means of regulating and co-ordinating changes made to the modules stored . |
| 28 | The drugs barons often win the support of the poor because they provide the means for entire communities to make a living . |
| 29 | Indeed , as we shall see in the final chapter , one of the principal skills a drama teacher requires is the ability to recognise the potential and suitability of each mode for the particular topic and the particular group and to recognise that the incipient performance mode in dramatic playing and the incipient dramatic playing mode in performance provide the means for an imperceptible movement between the two . |
| 30 | Soil mixtures provide the means for some types of adhesion : an inorganic soil may form a matrix with another or it may form a discreet layer to which another soil might adhere if it can not adhere to the base substrate . |