Example sentences of "means [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Means for the 10 junctions are shown in Figures 5.1 and 5.2 . |
| 2 | All children need to be given the chance to create things by means of the new technologies . |
| 3 | Lastly , a better balance may be achieved by the expansion of independent representation for the child in court and by means of the new procedures available to any child or interested adult , wishing to make complaints to the local authority |
| 4 | Positional accuracy is achieved by means of the equal numbers of teeth on the stator and rotor , which tend to align so as to reduce the reluctance of the stack magnetic circuit . |
| 5 | When all candidate content words have been assigned a score , use the Student 's t-test ( see Appendix A ) to determine whether the difference between the means of the correct-word scores and the highest-other-word scores is statistically significant . |
| 6 | Once this happens , the medium is said to not only reduce ammonia/nitrite to nitrate , but go one step further and , by means of the anaerobic bugs , convert nitrate to harmless nitrogen gas . |
| 7 | And the prominent prehistorian Professor R. J. C. Atkinson has clearly demonstrated that the laying out of an accurate , straight landscape line would have been well within the means of the megalithic builders . |
| 8 | The mean values converge therefore to and the relative shares in lifetime income are i.e. , it depends on the intrinsic growth of capital , the rate of population growth , and the relative means of the random terms in the two equations . |
| 9 | has brought together , accumulated and assimilated by means of the physical materials of his art a host of desires , intentions , and conditions coming from all regions of his mind and being . |
| 10 | By means of the different colours , it should be possible to decide which blade is running high and which is running low ( Fig. 4.2 ) . |
| 11 | If more than half the parents are fairly well off and eager to expand facilities in their school , they can set levels for school charges which are beyond the means of the poorer parents ( fee levels are set by the government ) . |
| 12 | A mystic has to learn to transcend these by means of the special techniques and carefully cultivated attitudes which his spiritual director must teach him . |
| 13 | These impostors reaped rich and abundant harvest among their dupes ; but by means of the wholesome instructions of the Gospel , superstition is fast giving way . |
| 14 | These impostors reaped rich and abundant harvest among their dupes ; but by means of the wholesome instructions of the Gospel , superstition is fast giving way . |
| 15 | Propagation is by means of the vegetative buds appearing on the leaves . |
| 16 | Stone-age man would have noticed that birds navigating by means of the magnetic properties of the ley lines together with the visual cues thereon , became disorientated at certain points ( multiple ley-line intersections ) . |
| 17 | The average relative abundances ( that is the means of the relative abundances for all skeletal elements except for the isolated teeth ) vary from 30.2 to 71.2 per cent for the seven barn owl samples ( Table 2.3 ) . |
| 18 | Attempts to perform automated semantic analysis by means of the selectional restrictions provided by semantic features have almost universally exposed the theory as being crude and inefficient . |
| 19 | For how many years have I not defined , or at least decorated , myself by means of the fronded fragrances of the tobacco leaf ? |
| 20 | Other traditions , such as military regimes and cultures with a central control , are based on the division of land by means of the cardinal directions and subdivision by halving , resulting in a fourfold and eightfold division . |
| 21 | A resolution had been tabled urging cooperation with the trade unions , while insisting that in the socialisation of the means of production , distribution and exchange lay the only hope of permanently bettering the means of the wage-earning classes . |