Example sentences of "[verb] a means " in BNC.
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| 1 | So a lucky accident provided a means of overcoming the outstanding barrier to organ transplantation . |
| 2 | Their use of temporary workers provided a means of meeting these needs . |
| 3 | This was partly because the hiring fairs in the upland areas provided a means of regulating the labour market which appeared to render trade unionism irrelevant , but it was also due to the reduced social distance between farmers and farm workers there . |
| 4 | In a better attempt to define the intermediate diameter ( I ) of particles retained on sieves of specific nominal diameters ( D sv ) Komar & Cui ( 1984 ) demonstrated that the relationship provided a means of obtaining a more closely representative grain diameter than currently given by the sieve mesh itself . |
| 5 | It would discipline assessments of success and provide a means of remedying a weakness in government ; insufficient learning from experience of reforms . |
| 6 | It is such measurable levels of activity over a given time period however which provide a means of support and comparison . |
| 7 | Such triangular set-ups provide a means of regulating distance in a marriage , and may represent a bid to retain freedom and independence . |
| 8 | Advanced expert systems provide a means to significantly improve performance in each of these important areas . |
| 9 | Advanced expert systems provide a means to significantly improve performance in each of these important areas . |
| 10 | They always provide a means to recognise , identify and focus on it , and finally to think it , but often at the end of a long investigation , and only after piercing the enigma contained in certain expressions . ’ |
| 11 | These provide a means for lexicographers to review and amend dictionary material which has completed the first stage of processing , as well as a facility for the transfer of portions of the dictionary material to a typesetting and composition operator . |
| 12 | Such explanations are highly disembedded , and , like other aspects of disembedded thinking , they are of considerable educational significance , since they provide a means of checking that pupils actually understand what they are doing , and not just giving correct answers through chance , imitation , or rote learning . |
| 13 | The following events are readily observable in intact embryos and provide a means of synchronizing them — ( for timings see Table 1 ) . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | They also provide a means of comparing units . |
| 16 | Deleuze elaborates a ‘ logique du sens ’ valorizing paradox and ‘ synthèse disjonctive ’ ( 1969:84 ) , while Derrida 's ‘ logique du supplément ’ ( 1967 ) and his quaternary chiasmatic logic ( 1972a ) provide a means of integrating indeterminacy or ‘ play ’ into the heart of binary structures . |
| 17 | These structures all provide a means of negotiating changes in land level when constructing a canal . |
| 18 | Within the Text710 version of the OALDCE are inflexional codes which provide a means of producing the standard inflections that a human would be able to generate automatically . |
| 19 | The CAPM and the market model provide a means to test the performance of these portfolios and in doing so have given indications of the extent to which the market is strong form efficient in assessing the ability of managers to consistently beat the market . |
| 20 | Rivers also provide a means of disposing of waste , and act as a transport medium . |
| 21 | A classified Landsat TM image ( Chapter 5 ) can be used to derive boundaries of spatial classes such as cropland , woodland and water , and remote sensing provide a means of keeping the data concerning land-surface cover that are stored in a GIS up to date . |
| 22 | It can anticipate problems and provide a means for reaching solutions . |
| 23 | The budgets represent targets which responsible personnel can work to during the period and possibly also provide a means to motivate personnel . |
| 24 | Objective — Through the development of an academic link scheme provide new learning opportunities for staff and thus provide a means of updating staff familiarity with the world of work . |
| 25 | The observations above also provide a means of analysing uses such as ( 2 ) , ( 5 ) and ( 6 ) , which have not yet been treated explicitly . |
| 26 | Any probes which have been previously mapped provide a means for ordering and orienting these contigs into their correct positions on the genome , for if two contigs contain neighbouring mapped probes then it is likely the contigs should be adjacent , even if there are no hybridisations linking them . |
| 27 | This phrase is a clue , becoming a means whereby adherents of the same movement can be identified . |
| 28 | The next task is to establish a means of setting baselines for both PB and CB . |
| 29 | People need to be able to store their wealth : they want a means of saving . |
| 30 | He noted that the agreement had been for DEC to increase its stake in Olivetti to 10% in July 1994 , but found a means whereby it could make good on its commitment earlier than expected . |