Example sentences of "[art] mechanism for [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In later years , paper labels served another function : they acted like gaskets , preventing molten material from getting into the mechanism for punching the centre hole . |
| 2 | Often it is another state-owned body which is used to provide the mechanism for making the payment ; this , as we have seen , provides a way of dressing up the deal as being commercially ‘ normal ‘ . |
| 3 | Also the mechanism for updating the forecast is not a very accurate one . |
| 4 | So far as the mechanisms for enforcing the rules of conduct are concerned , section 18(2) of the Act requires that any person who is exercising any of the functions conferred by Part II of the Act with respect to any of the matters described in section 18(1) , the granting of rights or audience etc. , must act in accordance with the general principle mentioned in section 17(3) . |
| 5 | The mechanisms for distributing the Funds were also subject to major revisions and these became effective on 1 January 1989 . |
| 6 | The State then becomes necessary because in The Origin as in the other works it is revealed as being one of the mechanisms for ensuring the continuing domination of the higher classes . |
| 7 | We have no mechanism for assessing the success or failure of forwarded enquiries . |
| 8 | Formal nursing courses reflect these concerns , but there is at present no mechanism for updating the knowledge of those who qualified some time ago . |
| 9 | Britain urgently requires a mechanism for influencing the policies and behaviour of its police . |
| 10 | The SH2 domain is thought to bind phosphorylated tyrosines in protein substrates , as well as providing a mechanism for auto-regulating the catalytic activity of src proteins ; the SH3 domain may bind cytoskeletal components . |
| 11 | What is required is a mechanism for thinning the lithosphere during the heating phase so that when it cools and subsides a region of negative relief is formed . |
| 12 | This is because while they may recognise the contribution everyone has to make in improving the nation 's health — there is still not a mechanism for involving the different groups , agencies and local communities . |
| 13 | Indeed Holt saw it as a mechanism for controlling the curriculum and even went so far as to suggest that the staff of the APU were concerned to promote desirable curriculum development . |
| 14 | The brief descriptions of the récit and the first entrée ( shown in their entirety in illus.l ) suggest that the opening numbers of the ballet served not only to introduce the subject of the work , but to set up a mechanism for getting the musicians on stage . |
| 15 | As a mechanism for weakening the slave trade , British colonial slavery and American slavery , the abstention from slave-grown produce was marginal in giving reality to abolitionist arguments about the ‘ impolicy ’ of the trade and in no way qualified , despite the evidence it provided , the later reflexive ideological commitment of abolitionists to the superior efficiency of free labour . |
| 16 | The introduction of a mechanism for refunding the UK for the gap which existed between payments by the UK to the EC budget and allocated receipts was an innovation of Fontainebleau . |
| 17 | He then enclosed it in a transparent box which he provided with a mechanism for straining the specimen in bending . |
| 18 | The system also involved a mechanism for counting the oscillations . |
| 19 | The results reported are intended as a contribution to the debate about early retirement as a mechanism for sharing the current job shortage . |
| 20 | Charge codes provide a mechanism for organising the storage of modules according to teams and projects , or for reasons of security or accounting . |
| 21 | But the point is that making profits for shareholders must now be seen as a mechanism for promoting the public interest , and not as an end in itself . |
| 22 | The move was interpreted more as a mechanism for displaying the North 's disapproval of the decision to proceed with Team Spirit than a direct response to South Korea 's military alert . |
| 23 | It also wants a market in research , and it promises a mechanism for funding the excess costs of academic teaching and clinical research . |
| 24 | So , whereas in the psychoanalytic account , homophobia might well signal the precariousness and instability of identity , even of sexual difference itself , in the materialist socio-political account it typically signals the reverse , namely that sexual difference is being secured , homophobia being ‘ a mechanism for regulating the behaviour of the many by the specific oppression of a few ’ ( Sedgwick , Between Men , 88 ) . |
| 25 | In this way , a mechanism for running the bath that automatically cuts off before the water overflows could be linked with , for example , a control unit for the central heating . |
| 26 | Of course , outputting them at 300dpi meant making some sacrifices so Adobe build in a mechanism for improving the shapes of the characters at low resolution , the technique is called hinting , and to protect their investment they encrypted both the typefaces and the hinting method so that the faces would only work properly with their own version of PostScript . |
| 27 | And I think that 's what underpins the advice in Planning Policy Guidance note number three which is seeking to use the new settlement as a mechanism for improving the n the er the landscape . |
| 28 | provide a mechanism for identifying the perspectives and views of the user and carer , and other professionals , on each of these dimensions . |
| 29 | The overall increase in referral rates may seem disappointing to those who hoped that fundholding would provide a mechanism for reducing the demand for specialist care , but it was probably unrealistic to expect a shift to occur in the first year of the scheme . |
| 30 | Coulter and Bradlow conclude that ‘ the overall increase in referral rates may seem disappointing to those who hoped that fundholding would provide a mechanism for reducing the demand for specialist care , ’ but our interpretation differs . |