Example sentences of "[n mass] [prep] [verb] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He blamed politicians and some sections of the media for whipping up anxiety about mortgage repossessions and said that for his company marital breakdown rather than poverty was still the main reason for such repossessions . |
| 2 | Conversation can also provide them with one of the most effective means for trying out ideas and modifying them in the light of the feedback received . |
| 3 | For Annabel , it was merely a means of filling in time before she starts rehearsals for her starring role in Cinderella in Norwich this month , when she appears with Gary Webster , of Minder , dancer Lionel Blair , and ‘ a lady from Teabag ’ , whose name she could n't remember . |
| 4 | With appropriate allocation of profits from year to year the company partner could be used as a means of building up partnership capital at the more favourable tax rate . |
| 5 | Pigs and poultry , sensibly managed , can be a rapid means of building up fertility on a run-down holding . |
| 6 | Overall , Solihull teachers are neutral concerning the efficiency of SSE as a means of bringing about changes in school and its potential as a professional threat to them . |
| 7 | The other was Vegetius , also a Christian , who likewise regarded war as a means of bringing about peace . |
| 8 | The laws of war may be one means of bringing about harmonisation : the very first multilateral laws-of-war convention of the modern type , namely the 1856 Paris Declaration on Maritime Warfare , was concluded because there had been divergent practices among the allies involved in the Crimean War . |
| 9 | Among the immigrant Irish , ‘ wakes ’ were exploited as a means of bringing in contributions , some of which vanished down the throats of relatives and friends in need of consolation . |
| 10 | What began as a means of seeing how things might be done better is now a philosophy of ensuring that things go on being done better towards a goal which will be forever just over the horizon . |
| 11 | The skilled negotiator , on the other hand , asks questions not only to gain more information and understanding but also as an alternative to disagreeing bluntly and as a means of putting forward suggestions ( ie possible courses of action said as questions . |
| 12 | In the 1860s and 1870s , the evolutionists turned to morphology , the detailed study of animal structure , as a means of working out relationships that could not be traced in the fossil record . |
| 13 | The idea of endowment paid to a mother ‘ on account of her motherhood and on behalf of each of her children … is ’ , it was asserted , ‘ entirely opposed to the idea of relief of distress or poverty , because it implies a universal national provision and not a means of making up deficiencies in the incomes of particular families ’ . |
| 14 | The procedure is an effective means of scaring off applicants . |
| 15 | Complaints are valuable feedback on the effectiveness of the organisation of the school and as a means of identifying where improvements can be made . |
| 16 | The celebrations surrounding the 25th anniversary of the accession of the Queen were used as means of playing down class differences and uniting the country around slogans like ‘ coats off for Britain ’ . |
| 17 | However , I warn people against lumping together pindown and what has been happening in Leicestershire . |
| 18 | A number of motives may lead people into taking up EFL . |
| 19 | However , they seemed to be arguing that , somehow or other , the single person 's discount would deter people from renting out rooms in their homes . |
| 20 | Further asset sales from breaking up ConsGold will put it in an even stronger position from which to launch further takeovers . |
| 21 | I enjoy shocking people by describing how goods were introduced into households under the guise of gifts for children : the fridge in the house of the children we played with over the road was given to the youngest as a birthday present — the last thing an eight-year old wants . |
| 22 | Thus , firms can reward their staff by setting up bonus schemes related to the firm 's profits or otherwise relating pay to performance ; and ( 2 ) just as the partners will wish to impose restraint covenants upon themselves ( see Chapter 8 ) to prevent an outgoing partner damaging the continuing practice by setting up in competition thereto , so in the case of salaried partners , assistant solicitors and other key members of staff their terms of employment should include similar restrictionssimilar , but not necessarily identical . |
| 23 | The membrane broke open and he found himself looking at a little horse 's head lying upon a pair of stretched out forelegs , a perfect little head with shell-like curling nostrils and a narrow white blaze , and wet , flattened-down ears . |