Example sentences of "means of [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within Thailand , the mothers of sought-after baby primates , such as gibbons , are shot out of trees as a means of capturing the young . |
| 2 | My Government will encourage all sides in South Africa to pursue peaceful means of constructing a democratic , non-racial society . |
| 3 | Most instrumentalists agree with Marx that parliamentary processes are meaningless charades , significant only as a means of maintaining the key ideological illusion that there is effective popular control of state policy-making . |
| 4 | Neglectful silence is , of course , the most perfect means of maintaining the powerful integrity of the institutional boundaries against any criticisms . |
| 5 | The honours system developed in medieval Britain as a means of maintaining the strict hierarchy necessary for monarchical rule : a place for everyone and everyone in their place . |
| 6 | Graphs and charts are really important as a means of providing a simple , clear guide to progress . |
| 7 | During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries , the humanist " revolution " in educational ideas led to a privileging of classical literature as the means of providing a liberal education , although this was later considerably transformed into a narrow disciplinary process tied to the maintenance of social distinctions . |
| 8 | Although I do not have a magic wand , I hope to be able to establish some means of providing the physical back-up that you would like to receive from the Society and to start the ball rolling I am compiling a list of all the ways in which you have been supported or would like to have been supported , in the past plus suggestions for the future . |
| 9 | In 1534 William Tyldesley advised Lord Lisle that the best means of getting a favourable answer to his requests would be a letter to some of his friends in the Privy Chamber or to the Lord Chamberlain . |
| 10 | A long while ago I watched Tom Keating on TV painting a ship during which he discussed putting on a varnish and painting in the rigging through the varnish as the only means of getting a nice line . |
| 11 | Transition curves were temporarily eliminated from the pure geometric shapes of the twentieth century : in part , as a reaction to Art Nouveau but also as a means of getting a firm grip upon design . |
| 12 | I hope that in the short term more attention will be paid to the availability of the independent arbitration scheme , which was set up in 1985 and which has not often been used , primarily because so few people are aware that it provides a means of getting an independent investigation of alleged grievances against British Rail and of obtaining redress and compensation where they are due . |
| 13 | The problem was therefore to find means of resettling a resident population apparently becoming more difficult to discharge . |
| 14 | even fewer would deny that the CMHTs were precipitated into a virtual policy vacuum and were in effect used as one means of developing a broader framework rather than as a means of implementing an already established strategy . |
| 15 | Quangos have provided a means of developing an administrative network at grass roots level without the uncertainty ( and possible political hostility ) associated with provision by elected local authorities . |
| 16 | In the wider context , the new Quality Framework signals our commitment to supporting the success of education and training providers as a means of developing the highly-skilled workforce on which Scotland 's future economic health depends . |
| 17 | The trickier the situation the more your behaviour matters as a means of influencing the other person or people . |
| 18 | With the parties arrayed against him and no Gaullist movement to counter them , he was left with no means of influencing the constitutional debate in a positive direction . |
| 19 | There is nothing which conflicts with the integrity of the United Kingdom in securing to Scotsmen in that or some other way an effective means of shaping the special legislation which affects them and only them . |
| 20 | One possible means of reconciling the new right and Thatcherism to the Conservative tradition would be to abandon the emphasis on ‘ authority ’ and emphasize the duality of Conservative thought in terms of the ‘ libertarian'/ ’ paternalist' divide . |
| 21 | Finally , it is becoming increasingly evident that scientific enquiry is an ongoing narrative through which generations of thinkers have sought to understand the world around them , and also that narrative as a mode of knowledge can be used as a means of accommodating the logical paradoxes of contemporary sciences . |
| 22 | The Labour Party is a Socialist Party It is opposed to force , revolution and confiscation as a means of establishing the New Social Order . |
| 23 | Nor is the concept of the " stratotype " satisfactory as a means of establishing an international stratigraphical language . |
| 24 | But there was no ambivalence in other writers : Quinney ( 1975 ) insisted that the criminal law must be seen simply as ‘ a coercive means of enforcing the capitalist social and economic order on an unwilling populace ’ , and added : |
| 25 | From his response to the huge volume of encrypted data that Coleman was sending twice a week to his DIA number in Maryland , Donleavy was interested in his reports , not just for their own sake , but as a means of cross-checking the official inter-agency pooling of information by the DEA and CIA . |
| 26 | They may construct artificial representations of a fixed reality at any one point of time as a means of handling the continuous flow of social change , but these are simply data for the social scientist and not to be taken at face value . |
| 27 | Consider , for example , the criticisms of transformations by Bresnan ( 1982 ) as a means of handling the active/passive relationship and her alternative proposals ; on the other hand , Gazdar and his colleagues ( 1985 ) have proposed a completely different framework for handling these relationships . |
| 28 | Pierre Reverdy , a young friend and supporter of Picasso and Braque , was quick to realize the fact that true Cubism had not been the product of pictorial doctrines and theories , and also that the search for the means of expressing a new concept of form and space had made Cubism a style of almost unequalled pictorial discipline . |
| 29 | Others think that this pattern of seven days is simply the most vivid means of expressing the creative energy and satisfaction of God , the orderliness and simple majesty of the way he created all things . |
| 30 | Famous hunters such as F. C. Selous returned home to lecture on the value of big-game hunting as a means of training the next generation of empire-builders . |