Example sentences of "[n mass] of making " in BNC.
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| 31 | Pameton has been kept on the market as a means of making paracetamol available to patients who may be at risk of self harm , but only on private prescription . |
| 32 | This had been doubly hurtful , for it meant that she not only did not want to work for and look after him but preferred his lifestyle to her own , and by implication ( for she was a lazy woman ) that meant that she considered what he did not to be work at all , merely a pleasurable means of making a great deal of money . |
| 33 | 1979 was a time of personal change , too , because the move abroad was followed by a major restructuring of the business which Laura eventually accepted , having first found a means of making it workable to her . |
| 34 | At the national level , women 's political participation was confined to the ladies auxiliaries of the Conservative and Liberal parties , which were formed during the 1880s and 1890s as a means of making use of women 's formidable political energies and of siphoning off potential protest |
| 35 | ‘ We are slowly realising that fat is a very effective means of making you put on weight . |
| 36 | " Just as a means of making a sale . |
| 37 | And we use moral evaluations about food and sex and homicide and dress and the " proper " way of ordering a household as means of making such discriminations . |
| 38 | It seems entirely likely that the giving of a mevleviyet was intended as a means of making possible — both in hierarchical terms and in terms of offering an inducement — the appointment of a scholar more highly qualified , and therefore , perhaps , more to be respected , than the normal run of kasabat kadis . |
| 39 | The second , and the one with which he is still struggling , required him to search for a means of making the pupils less dependent on him for their mathematics . |
| 40 | Demands were now being made that the people , or at least the educated and property-owning classes , be given more effective means of making their wishes felt . |
| 41 | And although they shared I.A. Richards 's impatience with the existing chaos of critical theories , and his desire for some scientific order in the study of literature , they would certainly not have endorsed his view that literary theory should be concerned with experience or with value ; nor would they have approved of his recourse to neuro-physiology or psychology as a means of making literary criticism more scientific . |
| 42 | However the means of making profit and the distribution of resources are the subject of negotiation and can give rise to conflict . |
| 43 | I am talking about the occasional and varied insertion of a comment clause as a means of making a monologue flow smoothly , or identifying a change-point for the dialogue — you know ? — or as a means of establishing rapport , you see , or a gentler conversational style . |
| 44 | It is all the fault of speculators who used the cars as a means of making mega-bucks , like buying paintings or antiques , rather than as personal playthings. 11 MC2966 meteoric rise in the price of even the most mundane of so-called classic motorcars , such as Morris Minors and Volkswagen Beetles , which have now come back down to earth with a thud . |
| 45 | Decentralization is often urged , but more often as a means of withdrawing the state from the provision of collective goods than as a means of making the state apparatus more efficient . |
| 46 | Evidence so far suggests , though , that it is proving its value , both for the individuals concerned and also means of making links with employers which could develop into other areas such as project work , secondments etc .. |
| 47 | I must hurry ’ was not a society but a means of making money . |
| 48 | On the one hand it proposes a range of socially useful products , and on the other , new forms of technology which would provide for a human-enhancing and liberating means of making the socially useful products . |
| 49 | Gloucestershire police say that they 're unlikely to prosecute the woman as they have no means of making her return to England to face charges . |
| 50 | I i it 's a means of making the system work . |
| 51 | sort of the context of ideology that , you know , from a Marxist perspective it is actually useful still to have rich and poor peasants because potentially you 've got classes , you 've got class conflict and you 've got a means of making further progress towards socialism . |