Example sentences of "an instrument of [noun] in " in BNC.

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1 In summary , the discourse analyst treats his data as the record ( text ) of a dynamic process in which language was used as an instrument of communication in a context by a speaker / writer to express meanings and achieve intentions ( discourse ) .
2 His concern was to ensure that Indirect Rule was sufficiently modernized to function as an instrument of government in an era of rapid social and economic change .
3 7.4 There are a number of reasons for the decision to use Personal Interviews as an Instrument of Assessment in PSD :
4 Seeing Renaissance writing deploying its resources to justify genocide as moral , divinely justified and ‘ civilising ’ , forces us to accept that Renaissance literature 's role has too frequently been accepted as unquestionably an instrument of enlightenment in some unexplored way .
5 An instrument of torture in all but the most capable of hands , the bass guitar rack has been lagging behind in the preamp/power amp technology already enjoyed by guitarists the world over .
6 In the 1920s , commercial bills , both international and domestic , were nearly as important an instrument of finance in England as bank advances .
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