Example sentences of "a means [prep] [verb] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The introduction of the ‘ mixed economy ’ did not imply any acceptance by Bukharin of the notion of ‘ market socialism ’ ; on the contrary , he saw the market as a means to achieving socialism within the framework of the ‘ mixed economy ’ in which the state and state-planning dominated . |
| 2 | In theory , and to some extent in practice , it does act as a means of distancing broadcasting from government . |
| 3 | The plethora of adjectives point , again , towards self-dramatisation , and it is clear to me now that I used this device as a means of bearing depression in general . |
| 4 | He valued ceremony , too , perhaps as a barrier , negotiable when desired , but inestimable as a means of maintaining distance during a parley . |
| 5 | For the employers , however , the ‘ new technology ’ was a means of re-establishing control over the industry and of driving it into profit . |
| 6 | The Cockcroft Committee 's recommendation relating to graduated tests is stated in para 553 of the report : a study should be commissioned to consider whether it is possible to devise a means of providing evidence of achievement in mathematics for lower-attaining pupils in ways which will support , and not conflict with the provision of suitable mathematics courses in schools . |
| 7 | In the early 1980s the process went one stage further with the Bank buying commercial bills as a means of providing assistance in the money market ; the need for this was exacerbated by the policy of overfunding the PSBR to reduce broad money growth . |
| 8 | ‘ This is something that we should be doing both as an employer of a substantial number of people , and as a means of providing information to firms for them to consider for themselves whether or not they want to join Opportunity 2000 , or whether they wish to pursue any of the initiatives outside it , ’ Institute secretary Andrew Colquhoun told ACCOUNTANCY . |
| 9 | It is interesting that while the quota system was rejected as a means of providing equality of opportunity for gender and religious affiliation , it was still considered an acceptable and effective means of achieving the same aim for people with disabilities . |
| 10 | The paper , designed to provoke discussion , considers the usefulness of civil liability as a means of allocating responsibility for the costs of remedying environmental damage and of preventing future damage . |
| 11 | In general , research suggests that in the immediate wake of unexpected news of a major loss , such as finding oneself permanently disabled after a car accident , denial may also , in the short term , be an adaptive response as a means of buying time for the individual ( Adams and Lindemann , 1974 ) . |
| 12 | He donated the Lateran Palace to the Bishop of Rome , and Rome was able to use it as a means of establishing supremacy over rival centres of Christian authority in Alexandria and Antioch . |
| 13 | The Conservatives also saw tax policy as a means of establishing control over public sector borrowing , and of introducing tax reform to assist the supply-side of the economy . |
| 14 | We 've got quite a few pupils in our school who will seize on anything like this as a means of causing friction between the various groups . |
| 15 | As with Terry she meant nothing to him , except as a means of extorting money from her papa . |
| 16 | Educational policy frequently becomes confused with social policy , as can be seen , for example , in the way that educational integration can come to be viewed as a sometimes misguided way of caring rather than a means of achieving access to society through education . |
| 17 | Artificial insemination by the husband 's sperm is approved by many religious authorities as a means of achieving fertility in a couple who would otherwise be childless . |
| 18 | Adherence to tradition , Hailey wrote , in a discreet display of the higher cynicism , ‘ valuable as it is , is only a means of securing acceptability of the institutions on which we place our reliance , and acceptability is the essential quality which they must possess ’ . |
| 19 | At the national level , women 's political participation was confined to the ladies auxiliaries of the Conservative and Liberal parties , which were formed during the 1880s and 1890s as a means of making use of women 's formidable political energies and of siphoning off potential protest |
| 20 | But a pauper burial was the final degradation of a miserable life , a respectable funeral a means of demonstrating self-respect to the end and hence of immense psychological importance . |
| 21 | Thus alternative external market constraints on managerial behaviour are isolated ; or proposals are made reasserting the potency of the internal structure of the company as a means of preventing abuse of the discretion exercised by corporate managers . |
| 22 | Many of the common infectious diseases of childhood are transmitted by airborne droplets ( e.g. chickenpox ) and , therefore , isolation from other children during the period of incubation and infection is a means of preventing spread of these diseases . |
| 23 | It is clear that Wagner became genuinely fond of Nietzsche , but for all the young professor 's admiration of him as a person , Wagner — it is a notorious fact — was a supremely egocentric man ; it is easily inferred that he glimpsed in Nietzsche a means of gaining respectability in hitherto hostile academic circles , and that it was this glimpse , as much as anything , that encouraged his fond feelings to grow . |
| 24 | Yet others , these in the smallest number , had been created by the sciences of the other Dominions , as a means of gaining access to the heaven of the Succulent Rock . |
| 25 | It belongs to no particular approach but is a means of linking theory with empirical analysis to the betterment of theory . |
| 26 | Line clips and foam rubber stuffed into the butt ring are , respectively , a means of applying tension to the line and sustaining it . |
| 27 | Unless such disclosure is regarded as defining the respective rights and duties of the parties ab initio61 it is unlikely to be effective as a means of avoiding liability for breach of duty . |
| 28 | And viewers were given the ridiculous impression that two blokes from Sussex University , rather than Eugene Garfield , had invented citation analysis as a means of assessing quality in research . |
| 29 | Such triangular set-ups provide a means of regulating distance in a marriage , and may represent a bid to retain freedom and independence . |
| 30 | According to Lee ( 1965 ) , language games are a means of acquiring variety in the consolidation process of language learning . |