Example sentences of "[prep] [art] mechanism for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | it is clear that the machinery of representative parliamentary democracy has so far proved unsuitable as the mechanism for translating personal preferences into day-to-day practice . |
| 2 | The Labour spokesman produced a leaked draft of the water prospectus , which contained details of the mechanism for passing unforeseen costs on to customers . |
| 3 | The first part of the mechanism for developing and delivering that convergence will be regional policy . |
| 4 | In an interview with The Times , Gummer said : " I do not think that any of the mechanisms for killing whales which are available now are commensurate with humanitarian views of our treatment of living things " . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Recent work on the history of the family uses structural explanations for family form as an expression of a particular culture and as a mechanism for creating personality types consonant with that culture . |
| 8 | In this way too Compacts can be seen as a mechanism for creating a more collaborative approach amongst all the different agencies responsible for providing education , training and employment . |
| 9 | Fiduciary duties as a Mechanism for Controlling Managerial Power |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In evaluating the market as a mechanism for disciplining management , however , it is necessary to take account of its wider impact , both in terms of the results of consummated mergers and of the overall effects of the threat of a change in control on management behaviour . |
| 12 | For instance , tribal religion has been seen as a mechanism for solidifying group identity , valuable for a pack-hunting species whose individuals rely on cooperation to catch large and fast prey . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | If Unit Trust Managers maintained the level of risk ( p ) then investors might reasonably use Unit Trusts as a mechanism for buying into an effectively diversified portfolio . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The results reported are intended as a contribution to the debate about early retirement as a mechanism for sharing the current job shortage . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The weighted capitation formula has been advanced not only as a mechanism for allocating national resources among the 14 regions but also for subregional allocation . |
| 19 | Even as a mechanism for transferring wealth to farmers , the CAP is inefficient . |
| 20 | The authors also say that peer review is ineffective as a mechanism for restructuring scientific activity . |
| 21 | People interested in agricultural improvement in the nineteenth century — in improving farming methods , in increasing the potential yield of land and in methods of improving the manner of storage of its produce — saw the formal lease as a mechanism for spelling out in advance precisely who was responsible for what , and for enshrining in legal terms how the land was to be utilised . |
| 22 | Mineral extraction using organisms is another aspect of biotechnology that is relevant to environmental quality and its increasing use as a mechanism for extracting minerals from ores or from mined materials simply harnesses the natural ability of many organisms to break down mineral-containing rock . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ Action ’ is high on the agenda as a mechanism for ensuring that tasks do not fall between members of the collective . |
| 25 | One of the basic contradictions in the politics of these and other Latin American countries derives from the difficulties of trying to superimpose the liberal concept of a state as a mechanism for ensuring free interplay between competing interest groups onto societies with a built-in tendency to corporatism . |
| 26 | Inasmuch as the Bretton Woods system contributed both as a framework for the expansion of the other capitalist countries and as a mechanism for granting US exports and capital access as soon as practicable , it can only be counted as a success . |
| 27 | They were driven by domestic challenge and external threat to build a powerful State , with the mechanisms for raising resources to finance it , but without a powerful State being the intention ( let alone what was to come later , popular participation and a general nationalism ) . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Such a list would comprise the constitution and procedure of Parliament , including the mechanism for electing it and its sovereign right to raise taxes , the relationship between Parliament , the executive and the courts , and matters to do with defence and foreign policy . |
| 30 | He then enclosed it in a transparent box which he provided with a mechanism for straining the specimen in bending . |