Example sentences of "[n mass] of raising " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is also concerned about being unable to control their value on the open market , with individuals making money out of what had originally been a means of raising money for charity . |
| 2 | Seed offers a simple means of raising a healthy stock of plants to dot about the garden , or plug-plant into the mini-meadow . |
| 3 | Under these schemes , which had first been developed in the 1970s as a means of raising capital from the private sector for new development , for example , on office and shopping complexes ( i.e. as a means of avoiding constraints on capital spending ) , council property was sold on a long lease to another agency and then leased back for shorter periods until the long lease expired . |
| 4 | You have not only derived from it the means of raising your subterranean wealth , but those also of rendering it available to the public . ’ |
| 5 | All instruments issued by reporting entities which are a means of raising finance , including shares , debentures , loans and debt instruments , options and warrants which give the holder the right to subscribe for or obtain capital instruments . |
| 6 | It characterises capital instruments as a means of raising finance : an instrument may be within the definition whether or not the consideration given for its issue takes the form of cash . |
| 7 | It would also be possible , although it would contravene the fundamental principles of the NHS as originally conceived , to introduce charges for NHS treatment — for example , a small charge for every visit to a GP or a ‘ hotel charge ’ to cover the cost of food consumed in hospital as a means of raising additional funds . |
| 8 | Such campaigns are essential to the British Section , not only as a means of raising awareness , funds and members , but also because they project Amnesty onto the high street — one step closer to ensuring human rights is foremost in people 's minds . |
| 9 | Using the parent body as a means of raising additional finance . |
| 10 | At times it seemed that price increases would be favoured as a means of raising self-financing and reducing pressure on the capital market ; at others that rises would be deprecated as contributing to inflation . |
| 11 | At best , however , the feudal summons could produce a cavalry force of little over 500 men , and even in Edward I 's reign it had obviously been insufficient in itself as a means of raising an army . |
| 12 | One possible alternative means of raising revenue , a graduated income tax , was advocated largely by socialists and as such tainted in the eyes of the main political parties . |
| 13 | A capital shares tax uses the concept of a wealth tax as a starting point — that is , as a means of raising revenue by a levy on wealth — but goes beyond this by proposing how this revenue could be used . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The insidious growth of the wages gap between agriculture and industry , which the AWB has done little to narrow , leads to the consideration once more of alternative means of raising wages on the land . |
| 16 | The real function of the reader is to be committed to learning how to live , and consequently to consider the novel , and literature in general , not as entertainment , but as a means of raising consciousness . |
| 17 | Communism , like all profound experiences , serves the novelist precisely because the novel is a means of raising consciousness and communism is an experiential method of consciousness-raising . |
| 18 | Minister of Culture Ernesto Cardenal ( who is also an ordained priest ) , in particular , has used poetry workshops as a prominent means of raising consciousness amongst working people . |
| 19 | The government firmly believes in the value of competition among schools as a means of raising standards . |
| 20 | Lending to small business owners has become an important profit centre for banks and the importance of establishing an efficient means of raising finance is also vital to the economy , because ‘ recent evidence shows that small firms have been the major creator of new jobs in the 1980s ’ . |
| 21 | Locks , or more correctly , ‘ pound locks ’ , are a means of raising a boat over a rise or fall in level by a series of steps . |
| 22 | She 'd pointed out that it was stupid to talk about Tupperware parties as a means of raising funds since funds raised at Tupperware parties naturally went to the manufacturers of Tupperware . |
| 23 | This is perhaps the simplest and most flexible means of raising finance . |
| 24 | It was the failure of domestic rates to take any account of the number of people living in a property which , above all , led to the system being rejected by the public as an acceptable means of raising local government revenue . |
| 25 | The hon. Member for Hornchurch ( Mr. Squire ) and the Secretary of State made it perfectly clear that the Government believe that the fairest and best means of raising local government finance is through a property tax . |
| 26 | As a result , we have no other means of raising important matters . |
| 27 | The committee also recommended a 1 per cent tax on all imports into the ECOWAS area as a means of raising revenue for the organization rather than the existing method based on yearly contributions from members . |
| 28 | Bell towers were important features of most churches , serving as places of refuge , means of raising the alarm and giving notice of events . |
| 29 | I am told you have bought up a large quantity of corn lately , which has been the means of raising the price of corn to such a degree , as to incense the tinners so much against you … that I am credibly informed no less than a thousand of them will be with you tomorrow early : they are first to assemble at Chacewater and then proceed for Falmouth . |
| 30 | In the third world , some heavily indebted governments have encouraged the rapid development of mining as a means of raising foreign exchange . |