Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] some means " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still , to some extent , every modern economy , at least so far as ownership of some means of production or municipal enterprises or financial institutions are concerned , is a mixed economy . |
| 2 | She went on to emphasise the growing need to tackle environmental problems : ‘ It is no good proposing that we go back to some simple village life and halve our population by some means that have not yet been revealed . |
| 3 | I was reassured that the nonsense would stop , and that people would use the bikes merely to get to the base of mountains , where the walk in was prohibitive of completing the hill in a day without some means of transport . |
| 4 | Jenny , as I had already worked out , was a woman of some means and she clearly was n't bothered by the fact she was having to subsidize me . |
| 5 | The heavy costs and long delays involved in High Court litigation have led to an increasing use of some means of arbitration to resolve commercial disputes . |
| 6 | One obvious policy for the achievement of this objective is for government to stimulate aggregate demand by some means or other . |
| 7 | Is there an intention by our government through some means or another , to get this matter brought before the court so that we can have the matter er sorted out where it belongs . |
| 8 | The enforceability of collusive agreements by some means can , therefore , be taken as a necessary condition for their existence . |
| 9 | This dimension of Lacan also finds a precedent in Freud : ‘ the programme of becoming happy , which the pleasure principle imposes on us , can not be fulfilled ; yet we must not — indeed , we can not — give up our efforts to bring it nearer to fulfilment by some means or other , ( xii.271 ) . |
| 10 | In many species , if a female mates with two males , the second male by some means or other manages to fertilize many more than half the eggs . |