Example sentences of "[n mass] of make [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And we use moral evaluations about food and sex and homicide and dress and the " proper " way of ordering a household as means of making such discriminations . |
| 2 | There was ‘ enough sentiment ’ , he admitted , ‘ enough fire … to lead people to put their lives and their families on the line for the cause ’ , but the cause was a mess ; too many different groups , no means of making political capital out of them , and ‘ guys running around in the hills … illiterate , ignorant campesinos ’ . |
| 3 | And although they shared I.A. Richards 's impatience with the existing chaos of critical theories , and his desire for some scientific order in the study of literature , they would certainly not have endorsed his view that literary theory should be concerned with experience or with value ; nor would they have approved of his recourse to neuro-physiology or psychology as a means of making literary criticism more scientific . |
| 4 | There are emerging , however , a few bona fide cases where licensing is the only means of making any sales and where it is in our general interest to be in a market in anticipation of that market situation easing at a later date . |
| 5 | sort of the context of ideology that , you know , from a Marxist perspective it is actually useful still to have rich and poor peasants because potentially you 've got classes , you 've got class conflict and you 've got a means of making further progress towards socialism . |