Example sentences of "means of [v-ing] [noun] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These measures alone may be as effective a means of recognising house officers as an important part of the service provided as restricting them to one hospital site for their preregistration year . |
| 2 | The above example was chosen to illustrate the basic underlying problem about the use of choices between representatives as a means of settling policy priorities . |
| 3 | Before examining the two main means of constructing classification schedules , it is as well to consider what the objectives of the designer of a classification scheme should be . |
| 4 | Alternatively , it may provide a means of translating atrocity stories from simple acts of individual testimony into public iconographies , monuments in the living museum of collective memory . |
| 5 | It also became apparent that a means of removing hardness salts in water was necessary , particularly for steam raising boilers . |
| 6 | But nowhere was any one principle of inheritance applied exclusively , and nowhere was inheritance the only means of transferring land rights . |
| 7 | * The ruling Christian Democratic Union and its ally , the Christian Social Union , are preparing a plan for taxing activities which cause pollution as a means of financing clean-up programmes in former East Germany . |
| 8 | Hewlett-Packard Co has also teamed with Banyan Systems Inc on development of products to put Banyan 's Vines and enterprise network services up under HP-UX Unix on Precision Architecture machines , and provide Vines users with easier means of using Hewlett printers with a network adaptor to work with the new MIO interface . |
| 9 | Hewlett-Packard Co has teamed with Banyan Systems Inc to put Banyan 's Vines and enterprise network services up under HP-UX Unix on Precision Architecture machines , and provide Vines users with easier means of using HP printers with a network adaptor to work with the new MIO interface . |
| 10 | … a boy or youth who is induced by means of gifts whether in money or in kind to participate in homosexual behaviour as a source of easy money or as a means of enjoying material comforts or other pleasures beyond those which he could expect by decent behaviour , and we have encountered cases where this has happened . |
| 11 | But it did not institute systematic means of monitoring school curricula to check on whether or not inspectorate advice was being followed , nor did it devise systematic means for exerting pressure on schools to follow this advice . |
| 12 | a particular focus on how and how far central-local relations are a means of articulating service policies ( objectives , goals and service paradigms ) — as opposed to resource controls , financing planning ( capital and revenue ) , and capital project design specifications — and the interaction of these different components of central-local relations ; |
| 13 | Cellular Inc of Englewood , and TVX Inc , Broomfield , both Colorado came together in Dallas yesterday to introduce a means of transmitting video images from a miniature camera to a personal computer using the cellular and terrestrial phone network . |
| 14 | Just as CD-A provides a means of collecting sound recordings of incomparable and permanent quality , videodisc may be seen as a means of acquiring a similarly high quality collection of movies and television programmes . |
| 15 | Gordon stressed that the aim was to produce an efficient service to our customers and was not merely a means of policing staff levels . |
| 16 | At that time it developed as a means of circumventing US restrictions on foreign direct investment , but when those restrictions were lifted in 1974 the market contracted sharply . |
| 17 | The activity of corticosteroids ( see Chapter 5 ) against lymphocytes has offered a means of controlling lymphocyte tumours . |
| 18 | The section on structural adjustment detailed means of supporting ACP countries in their efforts to adjust to short-term economic fluctuations . |
| 19 | Jovellanos , in his campaign for technical education and the useful arts as a means of raising living standards , may be forgiven for his attacks on the dead languages . |
| 20 | Unless you are hoping to use your foreign currency account for future business or investment needs , or as a means of deferring tax payments — when a currency fund ( see page 46 ) would probably be a better option — a currency account can save considerable time and money for people who have to make financial transactions abroad . |
| 21 | But in the 1880s a successful means of refrigerating meat cargoes was found , and within a few years Australian and Argentine beef , New Zealand lamb , and American pork were flooding into the country . |
| 22 | With 300,000 tons of skimmed milk powder in Common Market stores already , dried milk for babies is a highly lucrative means of reducing EC surpluses . |
| 23 | Buffer management enhancements and hiperpool support are designed to enable customers to make better use of large processor storage as a means of reducing input-output calls and improve DB2 performance . |
| 24 | Similarly , for political parties ideology may play a significant role ( it is also a means of reducing information costs , allowing voters to predict party response ) . |
| 25 | Of all organisations , it has an interest in ensuring that those who apply for asylum as a means of avoiding immigration regulations should not be allowed to enter the country . |
| 26 | The aim is to create a full-time route into facilities management for school leavers and to provide those already working in the p profession with a means of gaining specialist qualifications . |
| 27 | We will encourage civilianisation as a means of freeing police officers for operational duties . |
| 28 | In relation to , for example , technological systems , design posits a means of overcoming control problems since it posits a means of knowing-practice which incorporates the technical as a moment and which can itself thus internally incorporate social requirements ( no other mode of knowledge practice can do this ) . |
| 29 | Economics Minister Andrei Nechayev , commenting on the measure , said that it was a new means of regulating fuel prices , applicable only to oil so far , which was based on profitability and would contribute resources to a fund for compensatory payments . |
| 30 | This method provides a means of obtaining DNA markers distributed along the length of a specific restriction fragment . |