1.  This was interpreted variously but making secondary education free, providing better facilities and raising the school leaving age were seen as the most obvious means to that end.

2.  Well it seems the obvious means of transport.

3.  Expanding into Dallas was an obvious means of providing dancers with more employment and more pay.

4.  The most obvious means is simply sticking your hand into the blade.

5.  The tube worms had no eyes, no mouths and no obvious means of locomotion or ingestion.