Example sentences of "means [prep] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To know this is useful , but to identify those media is to identify the means for transmitting the values and beliefs that coalesce to form the political culture , and not to identify the political culture itself . |
| 2 | Government spending and taxation will therefore have a magnified effect on total income and expenditure flows , thereby providing the fiscal authorities with a potential means for managing the economy . |
| 3 | Elections can not be , and should not be regarded as , a means for approving the details of comprehensive manifestoes and the electors often seem to vote against a party rather than for the winning party … |
| 4 | Led by Sir Michael Angus , Chairman of Unilever and Deputy President of the CBI , Bristol 's Campaign for Resource will provide the financial means for achieving the University 's full potential in terms of facilities for teaching , research and continuing education . |
| 5 | The history of Western Marxism amounts to a history of attempts to provide a means for transcending the condition of alienation and achieving that lost totality , not through irony or a reified homogeneous temporality , as in Lukács ' novel , but , according to his formulation of Marxism , through history and class consciousness . |
| 6 | As his work developed , he became increasingly clear that our means for discovering the truth about reality stood in need of a persuasive justification . |
| 7 | Pearson 's study of the history of street crime in Britain clearly illustrates the problem of using criminal statistics as a means for comparing the rate of crime over extended periods of time . |
| 8 | This in turn must lead to a single ‘ compensatory ’ and complementary fiscal and taxation authority and thus to the surrender by the nation states of the means for controlling the material well-being and destiny of their citizens . |
| 9 | In accordance with your instructions of the 11th August , plans have been prepared and are herewith submitted for your consideration of a Lift or Slide to take the place of the 10 Locks that now serve as the means for passing the Traffic at Foxton Locks . |
| 10 | Similarly , in twenty years ' time , the threat of the new media may prove to be no more than a means for liberating the viewer from the duopoly 's straightjacket . |
| 11 | The latter use the word which ? or what sort of ? , as in fact do all attributives , whereas the means for questioning the predicate qualifier is normally how ? ; ( 6 ) and ( 7 ) are examples : ( 6 ) they ca n't map the parts inaccessible : which parts ca n't they map ? the book missing was stolen by Twyford : which book was stolen by Twyford ? ( 7 ) Alastair likes his beef tea strong : how does Alastair like his beef tea ? we find the prisoner guilty : how do you find the prisoner ? |
| 12 | A further difficulty is that the current legislation provides no means for combating the growth of the tacit or informal collusion which has come to replace the formal agreements of earlier years . |
| 13 | The FMC regulations also provide a means for notifying the public of the requirements and availability of surety bonds and enable ocean carriers to ascertain whether they are doing business with an untariffed or unbonded NVOCC . |
| 14 | He had a European reputation , military experience , and the means for commanding the service of knights . |
| 15 | It would be convenient to be able to write an instruction to add into the accumulator the contents of store address 99 , and to have some automatic means for modifying the instruction just prior to its execution , so that it refers successively to addresses 100 , 101 , 102 , and so on . |
| 16 | It should be apparent from the brief description given that a contract audit is capable of providing a means for improving the management and control of a contract . |
| 17 | The ERM is sometimes justified as a means for beating the currency speculator . |
| 18 | They did this over two weeks , but there was no means of knowing the energies of the neutrons , the essential information that would tell them whether they were from the fusion of deuterium and be the final proof . |
| 19 | Nothing in the system tells the operator when he has reached the desired temperature ; he can influence the temperature but he has no direct means of knowing the result . |
| 20 | But why chose this as a means of capturing the hearer 's attention ? |
| 21 | Is Community Economic Development merely a means of shifting the responsibilities for unemployment , deprivation etc. , onto the deprived themselves or is it an acceptance that government economic policy has failed so-called deprived areas and that something new is needed ? |
| 22 | a means of calculating the amount of enlargement or reduction necessary to accommodate a photograph within the area of a design . |
| 23 | To locate edges in images all you need is some means of calculating the rate of change of intensity of the image and locating the points where that rate is maximal . |
| 24 | Use of a logarithmic form of ( 2 ) in estimation provides a convenient means of calculating the elasticity of the asset demand with respect to wealth and testing for homogeneity of degree one in wealth . |
| 25 | Dr Paisley told campaigners : ‘ I have campaigned very hard indeed for the retention of acute services in local hospitals as I believe that is the best means of serving the needs of local communities . ’ |
| 26 | The Spanish Government argued that the quota system was established by Regulation ( E.E.C. ) No. 170/83 in order to conserve fishery resources , not to provide a means of partitioning the markets and establishing barriers to the free movement of persons within the Community . |
| 27 | This is where counsellors can often take the opportunity of expressing some of their own thoughts , feelings and experiences as a means of legitimizing the subject for discussion . |
| 28 | It was ready for the further development of Capitalism as the means of assuring the exponential increase in production which the Industrial Revolution was making possible , the phenomenal expansion which for the next forty years was to be centred on a Britain uniquely the workshop of the world and the engine of economic growth . |
| 29 | Misrepresentation as well as undue influence is a means of abusing the confidence that may be expected to arise out of the relation . |
| 30 | A means of maintaining the recording system during the intervention . |