Example sentences of "means of [noun] [conj] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | War was also a means of finding and experiencing companionship among like-minded persons . |
| 2 | For these purposes teachers will need to keep samples of children 's writing in order to monitor its range and development over the course of a key stage ; and they will need systematic means of recording and appraising the ways in which pupils approach writing tasks , including talking about what they are doing and why . |
| 3 | Rather it will be a case of the researcher finding a means of recording and sorting the mass of detail which continuously bombards him and presents him with the lateral possibilities which make the discipline potentially dangerous . |
| 4 | Discussion of work by Hugh Latimer and The Tempest considers the managing of anxiety by the state as a means of shaping and fashioning behaviour . |
| 5 | Up to the age of 13 , he was privately educated by his mother by means of signing and fingerspelling as she did not agree with the oralist method used by the Liverpool School for the Deaf . |
| 6 | Control tends to be exercised by means of work and monitoring interactions . |
| 7 | School-wide , to enable all staff in the school to be aware of further methods of questioning their own teaching practice and developing more appropriate or more effective means of teaching and educating the pupils . |
| 8 | And , since this network acts as the main means of managing and assessing social esteem , marriage is the main means by which women gain this form of local power . |
| 9 | Knowledge is the product of an interaction between our percepts mediated by sense-experience and the concepts which arise in our minds as the means of ordering and interpreting the percepts . |
| 10 | the dog is worrying or is about to worry the livestock and there are not other reasonable means of ending or preventing the worrying ; or |
| 11 | Opportunities to study for recognised qualifications through sponsored schemes are becoming an indispensable part of organisations ' management development programmes and an invaluable means of recruiting and retaining highly-qualified and motivated staff . |
| 12 | The development of steam engines owed a lot to the tin-mining industry , because as shafts went deeper below the surface , better means of lowering and raising men and ore and pumping out water taxed the brains of engineers . |
| 13 | In the short run this new body is seen by the Commission as a useful means of delaying or diverting the application of countries such as Austria which want to belong to the inner core of the 12 European Community states . |
| 14 | e Traditional and non-traditional students and ‘ value added ’ — Many admissions tutors in institutions of higher education have traditionally used scores in Highers and A-levels as a principal means of rationing and allocating places . |
| 15 | A nation 's survival as a free , independent , and self-respecting entity hangs on the ability of its people to nourish and protect themselves ; to provide the means of building and maintaining healthy minds in healthy bodies , and to develop the enterprise , resilience , and determination to surmount natural disasters and adapt to ever-changing conditions . |
| 16 | Some regard it purely as a means of conveying information , while others regard it as a means of building and maintaining relationships . |
| 17 | To a politician there was no better means of building and preserving a political interest than a demonstrated ability to secure some of the Indian patronage . |
| 18 | The IPP is a system for mapping out individual goals , specifying means of achievement and assigning responsibility for progress . |
| 19 | Morgan describes women 's means of communicating and campaigning as universally feminine , ‘ much more natural to them [ black , brown and white women ] than the very machismo style of male-dominated organisations , black , brown and white ’ ( 1970 : xxvi ) . |
| 20 | Unfortunately , such a concentration only a fortnight before the examination — which is too often the accepted state of affairs — is quite useless as a means of understanding and learning the skills of the subject . |
| 21 | Ta'kwanya refers to all those particular cultural capabilities a specific type of people have that enable them to live as they do : it is their means of living and fulfilling their material needs ; it is their way of doing things in the material sense . |
| 22 | Must we not understand by socialization of the means of production that the means of living and working belong to everyone ? ’ |
| 23 | Rather conflict must be controlled and must be utilized profitably in order to create more and better cultural means of living and working together ’ ( 1967 : xi ) . |
| 24 | The commitment to the commune , as the best means of taxing and policing the peasantry , was repeatedly reaffirmed . |
| 25 | Right from the days of the early caveman when he used fire not only for cooking but he also used it as means of lighting and keeping his family warm er during the winter months . |
| 26 | After discussing Handout 15 with the trainees , instructors are advised to invite the trainees to give examples of their own PBs and CBs and then , through open discussion , to devise means of measurement and recording for each pair . |
| 27 | If investment in public education was a necessary political and humanitarian response to the problems of poverty and underprivilege , if it was an appropriate means of fostering and maintaining religious adherence , and if it was calculated to equip young people with the skills demanded by a changing industrial society , then a strategy had to be found for ensuring that value was obtained for the funds invested . |