Example sentences of "means [prep] [verb] with the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Industrial waste incinerators of significant size have , in the past , been subject to control by Her Majesty 's inspectorate of pollution , acting under air pollution control legislation , with plant being required to adopt the best practical means for dealing with the materials coming into the sites . |
| 2 | The first involves teaching the patient alternative means of dealing with the feelings of tension which precede cutting , and the second involves psychotherapeutic measures aimed at improving the patient 's self-esteem , and her ability to communicate feelings and needs . |
| 3 | Kent County Council , at least , has ben persuaded of the value of the Hybrid Bill and appears to favour it as a means of dealing with the Channel Tunnel Rail Link . |
| 4 | Play and reading are concerned with preparation , with providing the means of dealing with the problems and opportunities of human life . |
| 5 | A study had been launched into the recording , reporting and presentation of criminal statistics , and research ‘ into the causes of crime and the effectiveness of the means of dealing with the criminals ’ was going ahead . |
| 6 | One is the move towards creating alliances , as means of dealing with the problems of rising resource costs just to stay in the game . |
| 7 | In these , he adopts a Kantian constructivist position which proposes certain basic categories through which alone the world may be apprehended , but recasts them as dynamic forms achieved only through a long process of interaction with the environment , in which the infant develops cognitive abilities as a means of dealing with the world . |
| 8 | Here , if one animal is attacked by another above it in the status-hierarchy , the attacked animal , rather than fighting back , instead directs its aggression against some inferior — a means of dealing with the situation which is open to all except the most subordinate member of the group . |
| 9 | Touch screens will provide another means of interacting with the video/computer screen . |
| 10 | Such cultic shedding of blood was regarded as the means of connecting with the Godhead , and animals were brought to the priests for sacrifice as sin- and thank-offerings , for purging ritual impurity , covenanting and redemption of both the individual and the nation as a whole ( Lev . |
| 11 | Once our boats had been destroyed , we had no means of communicating with the greater world . |
| 12 | His main means of communicating with the rest of the world is a laptop computer with a speech synthesiser . |
| 13 | For Schroder-Sonnenstern , who lived in psychiatric institutions from 1919 onwards , drawing was a means of communicating with the world . |
| 14 | Essentially , I am suggesting that what I am calling private metaphors were developed by managers as a means of coping with the dissonance between what is commonly accepted as being management theory and what they thought for themselves it ought to be in actuality . |
| 15 | Parliamentary sovereignty was felt to be compatible with the rule of law primarily because ‘ the commands of Parliament … can be uttered only through the combined actions of its three constituent parts ’ and that , ‘ unlike a sovereign monarch who is not only a legislator but a ruler , that is , head of the executive government , has never hitherto been able to use the powers of the government as a means of interfering with the regular course of law ’ . |