Example sentences of "means [prep] [verb] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A social group may be deprived by missionaries or a new education system or access to their own historically inherited forms , and a mere glimpse of the possibilities of industrial culture , without the means for appropriating that culture , is hardly an adequate substitute for such a loss . |
| 2 | In important respects , however , his longing was a self-deception , a poetically fruitful means of expressing that sense of loneliness and isolation which had been as much a part of him in Ottery as in London . |
| 3 | The emphasis in this chapter is on identifying the needs and problems of the potential buyer and presenting a product or service as a means of fulfilling that need or solving that problem . |
| 4 | If , as we have suggested , the working woman 's goal was one of maintaining and protecting her family , abortion could be one means of attaining that end . |
| 5 | The Greek achievement represented an ideal : special , superior , but still largely remote and mysterious ; Germany 's own new culture was to evolve by coming to terms with it ; and a collective effort was to be the means of realizing that aim . |
| 6 | Indeed , McIntyre analyses the reason why we have war memorials at all as the debt paid by the living to the dead , ‘ as a catharsis , a means of purging that guilt of the survivor ’ . |
| 7 | According to the Newcastle Commission of 1861 , the best means of obtaining that assurance was |
| 8 | As well as a means of ensuring that interoperability and compatibility between different vendors ' Tuxedo-based products , USL wants the club to clearly identify these products by stamping them with the Tuxedo brand . |
| 9 | ‘ We firmly and explicitly reject the idea that a Ph D student should be primarily a research assistant involved in an ongoing research project … the preparation of a Ph D thesis … provides a means of ensuring that research undertaken is preserved and can be made available to others . ’ |
| 10 | Discussions over the need for increased powers for the Scottish party were initiated by its nationalist wing but have been seized on by the left as a means of ensuring that Labour 's different electoral aims north and south of the Border do not lead to alienation of the party 's traditional supporters in Scotland . |
| 11 | Denial of oil exports to Iran was conceived both as a means of rendering that country harder to govern , thus denting the morale of its leadership , and as retaliation for the severance of Iraq 's own crude export systems by Iran . |