Example sentences of "have [art] means " in BNC.
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| 1 | This elementary drawback has long been foreseen , as has the means of avoiding it . |
| 2 | The Soviet Union certainly has the means . |
| 3 | Autobacs , which made a pre-tax profit of ¥7.3 billion ( $51.7m ) on sales of ¥110.4 billion in the year ended March 31st , has the means to finance further expansion . |
| 4 | Its advantage is that it is at least problem-orientated and gives the impression ( which is sometimes justified ) that one has the means to solve it . |
| 5 | A famous 19th century thinker once observed that ‘ the class which has the means of material production at its disposal has control at the same time over the means of mental production ’ . |
| 6 | It is no use telling a man who has received a thousand pounds a year in giro cheques that he has the means to better himself . |
| 7 | In any intimacy between a stronger and a weaker personality the weaker is inclined to yield even when he has the means to prevail , from a compulsion to see through the eyes of the stronger . |
| 8 | It must , therefore , ensure that it has the means within its membership to fulfil this inescapable obligation . |
| 9 | ‘ Sheldukher has the means to kill every one of those people out there if I move against him . ’ |
| 10 | He has the means : an experienced air force and long-range missiles capable of dropping high explosives , maybe even poison gas , into the heart of Tel Aviv . |
| 11 | He was told that the government department , with general responsibility for arts policy , has no means of helping him to reclaim the bronzes from the Ariadne Galleries in New York . |
| 12 | He has no means of influencing these processes . |
| 13 | The carriage has no means , at that point , of knowing that you have moved the point cam . |
| 14 | The government is trying to curb investments by listed companies into the mainland , but has no means of accurately monitoring — let alone controlling — how much local companies have put into China . |
| 15 | So indeed is the Alien — and he has no means of propagation . |
| 16 | But it would be very odd if a corporation had no means of protecting itself against wrong ; and if its property is injured by slander it has no means of redress except by action . |
| 17 | But it would be very odd if a corporation had no means of protecting itself against wrong ; and if its property is injured by slander it has no means of redress except by action . |
| 18 | ‘ The right to recovery after a demand colore officii rests upon the assumption that the position occupied by the defendant creates virtual compulsion , where it conveys to the person paying , the knowledge or belief that he has no means of escape from payment strictly so called if he wishes to avert injury to or deprivation of some right to which he is entitled without such payment . |
| 19 | This can be difficult because the consumer has no means of knowing what goes on ( or went on ) in the factory . |
| 20 | He describes how the infant at birth has no means of linking features or bodily parts together in the form of an identity . |
| 21 | These days , that can not happen because the case is unlikely to be listed and , if it is listed , it will be adjourned , so a local authority has no means of carrying out its responsibilities . |
| 22 | The gardener who had worn a knotted handkerchief on his head , whoever he might have been , had had no means of knowing then or later that Adam intended to live there . |
| 23 | Even when North Yorkshire sites have been short-listed by an investor on quality grounds the county has had no means of matching the financial incentives elsewhere . |
| 24 | ‘ And under the law , it is simply not enough to design a kitchen with good equipment in it — you must now have the means to monitor and control operations , ’ he said . |
| 25 | Yet the numbers of women choosing not to marry receded in times of rising real wages , and the same conditions lowered the average age at marriage Hence , it is wise to remember that many women remained unmarried only because they did not have the means to start a new household with a husband . |
| 26 | We have entered an era when ever greater numbers of people wish to travel and have the means at their disposal of doing so . |
| 27 | Such difficulties as these tend to be all the more preoccupying nowadays because one does not have the means to discuss and corroborate views with one 's fellow professionals in the way one once did . |
| 28 | The vast majority of defendants , even politically motivated ones , have not the energy , and may not have the means , to launch long and expensive appeals . |
| 29 | I strongly believe that parents should be properly informed about the policies and practices of their schools ; that they should have the means regularly to voice their opinions and should indeed be represented on the governing bodies of schools , yet I believe too that there are dangers in allotting them too many constitutional powers . |
| 30 | ‘ I had lost the will to live , but did not have the means to end it . ’ |