Example sentences of "by means of [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having achieved professional status by means of success in competitive examinations , they are likely to feel a sense of obligation to working-class pupils to equip them in a similar way . |
| 2 | Instead they dismantled the Poor Law from outside , by removing from it needy groups by means of legislation on issues such as old-age pensions and national health insurance . |
| 3 | But erm and essentially , the difference is this , if I can illustrate it by means of reference to appendix four in er N Y two of o o of North Yorkshire . |
| 4 | Whereas the majority of respondents from the six CCAB bodies favoured the principle of rationalisation by means of reduction of the number of bodies , 58 per cent of ICAS respondents did not . |
| 5 | If , as we have been suggesting , the nature of data has much to do with the theoretical presuppositions which underlie their production , how can it be said that theories are tested by means of exposure to data ? |
| 6 | In both cases , assessors may need to ensure current competence by means of assessment on demand . |
| 7 | Taxes Act 1988 , s739(1) states that the section is enacted : … for the purpose of preventing the avoiding by individuals ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom of liability to income tax by means of transfer of assets by virtue or in consequence of which , either alone or in conjunction with associated operations , income becomes payable to persons resident or domiciled outside the United Kingdom . |
| 8 | So if you think about it a therapeutic group could certainly use suggestive therapy like hypnosis and my guess is that most successful groups like Alcoholics Anonymous or groups of people who wan na stop smoking or do slimming and things like that succeed for that reason , cos every member of the group reinforces every other member with a kind of group super ego and says look , you must n't smoke , you must n't drink , you must n't put on weight and it , it reinforces every individual 's erm super ego by means of identification with the shared value of the group and similarly reduces feelings of shame and guilt if the individual fails the group , cos next week when they come back they say oh dear , I 've put on five pounds , erm that they 're gon na feel bad about it because it offends against the ideal of the of the group if it 's Weight Watchers or something . |
| 9 | The discussion in this section has developed the key points about inter-organizational practice by means of consideration of the rules-discretion dichotomy . |
| 10 | … Mistakes of law made by judges of the High Court acting in their capacity as such can be corrected only by means of appeal to an appellate court ; and if , as in the instant case , the statute provides that the judge 's decision shall not be appealable , they can not be corrected at all . |
| 11 | Relatively few of these governments have been formed following elections ; most have been created by means of negotiation between the main parties and personalities in order to establish the distribution of offices between parties . |
| 12 | As mentioned earlier , French does not generally use phonological stress to highlight a clause element ; instead , lexical means are employed to signal what would normally be conveyed by means of intonation in English . |
| 13 | The Cloud-author would not dispute this but , whereas Julian and the others communicate their experience of the being of the transcendent God in the inner self by means of focus on the combination of literal and figurative truths revealed in the story of the Incarnation and Passion , he is so concerned with the reality of a God who can not be " known " by intellect or sense , that he plays down these " means " . |
| 14 | The defendant counterclaimed that as a residential occupier she was protected by section 3 of the Protection from Eviction Act 1977 so that she could only be evicted by means of execution of a warrant of possession , and she sought damages for unlawful eviction under section 27 of the Housing Act 1988 .. |
| 15 | Evaluation by achievement Performance measurement was carried out after each series of courses , by means of examination of each student 's list of references , in order to see whether the students were able to carry out a practical literature search . |