Example sentences of "[prep] means of [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most are attached to the sole of the boot by means of a strap under the instep and a hook secured to the front lacing . |
| 2 | Prior to and immediately after the operation , the weapon would be holstered erm and secured by means of a strap across er the hammer of the weapon . |
| 3 | By means of a strip of lead called a leaden tape , which he pressed around and into the fillets and hollows with his finger and thumb , he transferred the exact contour of each moulding to his drawing … |
| 4 | In many primary classrooms , teachers introduce a new topic by means of a discussion with the whole class . |
| 5 | Until the 1970s , at least , whites retained a virtual monopoly on skilled labour by means of a system of job reservation . |
| 6 | ‘ The entire Marxist tradition has had enormous difficulty … with the paradoxical phenomenon of bourgeois democracy — a regime in which the exploiting minority rules by means of a system of legally free popular elections ’ ( Therborn , 1978 , p. 248 ) . |
| 7 | On the basis of its deliberations the Committee proposed a strategy for national cultural renewal by means of a system of education led by the universities , and with English as the central pedagogic instrument for the gaining of nationally valuable experience . |
| 8 | The complex comprises a pair of MetJ repressor dimers which bind to adjacent met- box sites on the DNA , and contact each other by means of a pair of antiparallel α -helices . |
| 9 | The study investigates by means of a mixture of systematic observation and simple experiments , those skills that are required to meet the additional demands of multiple-person situations , the intention being to identify and describe such skills and trace their development over age . |
| 10 | I shall support the view by means of a criticism of pornographic eroticism . |
| 11 | A party who makes such an offer shall file a copy in a sealed envelope , but the offer shall not be brought to the attention of the court at the hearing until the question of costs falls to be decided and the court shall , in exercising its discretion as to costs , take into account any offer which has been brought to its attention : Provided that , except in a case to which paragraph ( 3 ) of the rule applies , the court shall not take such an offer into account if , at the time it is made , the party making it could have protected his position as to costs by means of a payment into court . |
| 12 | A tax effective method of achieving this may be by means of a payment to your pension scheme . |
| 13 | The property in British ships can only be transferred by means of a bill of sale which is registered in the shipping register . |
| 14 | Eventually she escaped , by means of a message for help hidden in a twist of tweed yarn , but she and the Catholic priest who agreed to assist her were both intercepted and imprisoned on another remote island where Lady Grange died . |
| 15 | The requirement of the [ draft ] FRS that issue costs are reflected in the amounts charged to the profit and loss account over the term of a capital instrument is not intended to prohibit the subsequent charging of issue costs to the share premium account by means of a transfer between reserves . |
| 16 | ‘ The inconvenience arising from cold in the most carefully constructed railway carriage , where a long journey has to be performed in the winter season , suggested to the directors the necessity of fixing a warming apparatus in the bed of the carriage , and Mr. Perkins , the inventor of the steam gun , has accordingly fitted a very ingenious apparatus for the purpose of heating the carriage , which may be thus briefly described : — a coil of pipe placed near the hinder axletree , and supplied with water from a small cistern in the bed of the carriage , is kept heated by means of a lamp with four burners . |
| 17 | Its wide-ranging format allowed children 's costume drama , previously thought the sole preserve of the Classic Serials Division , to be made more appealing by means of a link to the space age . |
| 18 | The component parts of the woodwork for the sides , backs and quarters were assembled in jigs by a gang of finishers , and when completed they were transferred by means of a conveyor to the trimmers , who were supplied with cloth and other material cut to the correct size and stitched . |
| 19 | For one hour a day , each rat could control this current by means of a lever in its cage . |
| 20 | Indeed , while the restructuring plan casts doubt on the firm 's ability to come up with the capital to finance an ambitious plan to expand its telecommunications operation , the extent of the Kontrax Group 's difficulties are hard to assess as it financed its expansion by means of a maze of inter-company loans . |
| 21 | Both market research and government survey units use consumer panels of housewives for budget enquiries , finding out what the housewife spends on what over a given period by means of a diary of spending . |
| 22 | A thin metal ‘ telescope ’ , lubricated on the outside , is inserted into the urethra and by means of a light-source at its tip , the inside of the urethra can be examined for cysts , warts , herpetic ulcers , or infected urethral glands . |
| 23 | Originally rivals , they have succeeded in identifying themselves with one another by means of a love for the same object . |
| 24 | Data on these will be collected by means of a combination of non-directed interviewing , participant observation and the recording of discussions , meetings and so forth . |
| 25 | The research is carried out by means of a combination of direct observation , interviews and documentary study . |
| 26 | It is an attempt to use bibliometric methods for deciding on priorities between competing groups , by means of a study of a small number of major basic-research centres . |
| 27 | The option of a ‘ Swedish solution ’ , by means of a merger with Volvo , was not seriously considered in view of the restructuring and job losses considered to be inevitable from the merger of two specialist car manufacturers . |
| 28 | When the first orders were placed the numbers of two-car units in the fleet were set by means of a number of calculations . |
| 29 | Bonsu ( 1981 ) reports the results of experiments to reduce erosion in a savannah soil of northern Ghana by means of a number of agronomic practices , including the leaving of crop residues as a mulch . |
| 30 | This last question is handled by means of a number of behavioural techniques , which form part of what has been called motivational research . |