The patent was seen as not only a business need but also a means to protect inventors.

The dog is likely to see this as a game, and a means of attracting your attention.

Unfortunately, I can't see a means for sort of, in real-time, disabling it.

She saw in this fortunate meeting with Michael a means only of accelerating her journey to her father.

Indeed, Man Ray saw fashion only as a means to support his experimental art.

Until recently, she had imagined that he saw Aimee only as a means to work his way into her own life.

Ecologists studied the natural environment, but often saw this only as a means of helping the human race to manage its interference more effectively.

Orchestra administrators see a draw for new audiences and a means of raising their group's profile.

Learning from overseas should be seen not as an irrelevance, but a means to enhance local services and economies.

They perhaps see craft as subservient to exposure, a means rather than an end.