Example sentences of "a means " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gift Aid may not be used by a donor as a means of writing of a debt or loan owed to him by the charity . |
| 2 | Art is not , as the metaphysicians say , the manifestation of some Idea of beauty or God ; it is not , as the aesthetic physiologists say , a game in which man lets off his excess of stored-up energy ; it is not the expression of man 's emotions by external signs ; it is not the production of pleasing objects ; and , above all , it is not pleasure but it is a means of union among men joining them together in the same feelings , and indispensable for the life and progress towards wellbeing of individuals and humanity . |
| 3 | A different sort of response to art is to use it as a means of learning more about the society in which it was produced ; this may be felt by a theoretician to be more important than to know the artist 's intentions , which , it can be argued , are determined by society . |
| 4 | The specialist field of old master drawings has received extremely detailed study ; the drawings are interesting both in their own right and as a means of knowing more about artists ' practices . |
| 5 | The shows put on in Paris at the Salon , and in London at the Royal Academy , were a means of creating sales for artists at a turning point in the history of patronage ; as there developed a middle-class market for literature , so there developed a comparable market for art . |
| 6 | Poetry has often been a form of self-pity and a means of self-advancement , and it has often pretended otherwise : Kundera 's book rumbles such pretence , as in the comedy he stages of an embassy of poets to a college of policemen and a debate there about the aesthetic of the socialist love-poem . |
| 7 | the organization of native pastimes and the promotion of athletic fitness as a means to create disciplined , self-reliant , national-minded manhood which takes conscious pride in its heritage of unrivalled pastimes and splendid cultural traditions as essential factors in the restoration of full and distinct nationhood . |
| 8 | Both reject papal centralization and papal authority as a means for discerning just government . |
| 9 | Its position on abortion itself was hardly ambiguous : the minutes of the Assembly meeting for 1982 point out ‘ [ the Assembly 's ] opposition to abortion on demand for purely social reasons , or as a means of birth control … [ and ] that in exceptional circumstances , where medical abortion might be necessary , the most stringent safeguards should be provided to prevent abuse ’ ( Presbyterian Church in Ireland 1930–86 , General Assembly ( 1982 ) , p. 61 ) . |
| 10 | A means of making the visitor delay . |
| 11 | Going away as a means of discovering what was really happening here , he wrote . |
| 12 | The 1991 Forum will look at Channel 5 both as an opportunity to provide employment and economic growth outside of London and the South East and as a means of making the non-metropolitan voice heard . |
| 13 | All the MEDIA projects are run on the basis of offering limited seed money to be used as a means of attracting further funding . |
| 14 | As a means of enclosing your garden and defining its boundaries , a hedge is a durable , less expensive and often more aesthetically satisfying alternative to fencing . |
| 15 | This is so serious that for world championship flying , many gliders are now fitted with a means of cleaning off the leading edges of the wings in flight . |
| 16 | Practise opening more airbrake during the hold off as a means of getting the glider down fully held off , but without such a long float . |
| 17 | This can be put to good use in soaring conditions as a means of getting into the lift when cruising at a high speed . |
| 18 | Bourdieu ( 1977 : 94–5 ) describes these as a means by which |
| 19 | Rather it will be a case of the researcher finding a means of recording and sorting the mass of detail which continuously bombards him and presents him with the lateral possibilities which make the discipline potentially dangerous . |
| 20 | Because the ‘ prig ’ has to be nailed , it comes as no surprise to find that electronic tagging seems set to join the introduction of ID cards as a means of controlling the ‘ dangerous classes ’ , for as many anthropologists have shown , the concept of movement itself is possessed of dangerous ambiguity and prevents easy classification . |
| 21 | Its use as a means of defining order or to set against those outside creates a subcultural style , which is reinforced continually . |
| 22 | In this account , Lévi-Strauss uses the ‘ hero 's journey ’ to self-analysis in the field as a means of achieving or engendering knowledge ( see also Caplan 1988 ) ; emphasizing that it is the journey to self-awareness itself , and not the arrival , which is the most important aspect of the rite de passage . |
| 23 | I would not advise any female competitor to rely upon a firm bra as a means of protection , because all that does is hold the breasts so that they ca n't move freely under impact . |
| 24 | The fact that the two leading English choreographers create so many unusual ports de bras as a means of expression is what has made so — many Royal Ballet dancers so successful in ballets with a story . |
| 25 | Conventional gestures are valuable not only because they often appear in the epics themselves , but also because they are universally recognised as a means of communication in real life and have been used on the stage since the earliest days of the theatre . |
| 26 | However , it should not be viewed simply as a means to control powerful printers . |
| 27 | This is seen as using RDS as a data channel of very limited capacity in conjunction with a speech synthesis chip or possibly some form of printer in the car ( it could provide automatic translation when travelling abroad ) as a means of sending ‘ traffic telegrams ’ to cars without interrupting the radio programmes . |
| 28 | Radio waves , like light waves and sound , are a means of transmitting energy . |
| 29 | Until last year the accounting systems were largely used as a means of record , not for planning . |
| 30 | A much safer route to travel is that which Mr Garton Ash approves only as a means to an end , namely that of encouraging urgent reform in the German Democratic Republic , but as a separate state with a future of its own . |