Example sentences of "[n mass] [prep] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jansher , who was already on probation after being fined £200 for walking out of the Kuala Lumpur World Open dinner in October , has clearly reached a point of no return with his conduct . |
| 2 | This is seen as an important means of getting away from the elitist concept and encouraging everyone to take a longer view , even if his or her immediate task involves short-term objectives . |
| 3 | Hopefully , it 'll give some severely disabled people a means of getting out of the bath without having to rely on another person . ’ |
| 4 | Likewise , the purpose of introducing science into the secondary schools was never in doubt to such leading advocates as H. E. Roscoe , the first President of the Association of Public School Science Masters ( the precursor of our Association for Science Education ) ; school science was , for Roscoe , as Layton quotes him , to be ‘ the means of sifting out from the great mass of the people those golden grains of genius which now are too often lost amongst the sands of mediocrity ’ . |
| 5 | an effective means of looking forward to the next appropriate teaching steps . |
| 6 | means of reporting back to the full governing body ; and |
| 7 | A different sort of response to art is to use it as a means of learning more about the society in which it was produced ; this may be felt by a theoretician to be more important than to know the artist 's intentions , which , it can be argued , are determined by society . |
| 8 | Bachert 's short survey of collection patterns demonstrates — perhaps unconsciously — a means of moving away from the tendency to create a monolithic interpretation of the ‘ artist and her work ’ . |
| 9 | For Jeanne Favret-Saada ( 1980 ) , who set out to study witchcraft in the French Bocage , the only means of moving in on the discourse she hoped to understand was to become part of it . |
| 10 | This is a means of working backwards towards the state you would like to achieve . |
| 11 | Inserts are a useful means of cutting away from the main subject to some subsidiary action while keeping the original sound going under the insert . |
| 12 | Alastair McLeish , secretary of the ULA branch , said : ‘ The principal is trying to pressurise staff into backing out of the strike . |
| 13 | Equally we 've tried not to traumatise the public or our staff by cutting back to the governments preferred level all at once . |
| 14 | Lurgan made it past Bangor 's total of with just three balls to spare , Craig Irwin 's innings of doing most of the damage . |
| 15 | In any living venture , it is impossible for any of the partners to be detached from the natural dynamics of working together in the project and there may have to be a realignment of membership during the course of the enterprise . |