Example sentences of "[noun] mean more " in BNC.
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| 1 | High interest rates and falling values mean MORE repossessions . |
| 2 | The public mood seemed to be that more organizations mean more bureaucracy , complexity and expense . |
| 3 | Should the term mean more than just a circumscribed spatial area ? |
| 4 | There were no photographs around , but what a fool she was to imagine that the expression in his eyes meant more than the harsh words he dealt her . |
| 5 | Jimmy Carter 's election as President means more concern about human rights and reduced US support for repressive regimes in Latin America . |
| 6 | Beating crime means more than more police , according to the Gloucestershire force . |
| 7 | A greater number of branches means more jobs , and more opportunities for promotion of existing staff . |
| 8 | An economist would say this is the market working : cheaper labour means more jobs . |
| 9 | In general , therefore , it constrains the increasing tendency for usefulness to mean more and more information . |
| 10 | There is a sense that the lines mean more than their composers know , may indeed not be their personal compositions at all ; they may also be brooded upon , to be repeated with new understanding much later . |
| 11 | Now , Harry was certain , Cornelius meant more than the length of time a middle-aged man should give himself to recover from influenza . |
| 12 | In the Celtic sense , Sovereignty means more than mere exercise of power . |
| 13 | Revision means more than " re-viewing " or passing your eye across pages of lecture notes . |
| 14 | Norton believes privatisation of electricity and water companies means more funds will come on stream . |
| 15 | Animal instinct warned him that the car 's appearance meant more enemies that he could handle in his present condition . |
| 16 | Later , experts were divided over whether two horrific attacks in just five days meant more could be expected . |
| 17 | And no-till farming means more herbicides . |
| 18 | Communicating effectively in business means more than familiarity with the language . |
| 19 | Britain had been unable to protect Czechoslovakia or Poland in 1938–39 , and every month before a possible invasion meant more aircraft , guns and ships . |
| 20 | The extra speed and wide reach of the service means more patients reach hospital within the so-called Golden Hour , when surgeons have a better chance of saving life . |
| 21 | ‘ Literacy means more than learning a code or writing a word . |
| 22 | Because of the connection with prostitutes , pornography means more than just the graphic depiction in words or pictures of sexual activity . |
| 23 | Pornography means more than most people would have us believe , but the word has become so weighed down with negative associations that we tend to shy away from it . |
| 24 | Economic development means more purchasing power in the hands of individuals and that means rapid growth for cosmetics , toiletries , pharmaceutical products — all the markets we supply . |
| 25 | She says staffing problems in her area are n't especially acute — but that these days , short hospital stays mean more work for the community midwives . |
| 26 | Living by his trade meant more than surviving . |
| 27 | In the light of the quite different issue which was before the House in Gillick 's case I venture to doubt whether Lord Scarman meant more than that the exclusive right of the parents to consent to treatment terminated , but I may well be wrong . |
| 28 | The best example is California — the shift of population from the countryside to the cities meant more cars , more houses where orchards used to be , less clean air , fewer clean lakes and rivers , etc . |
| 29 | Why holidays mean more work |
| 30 | Togetherness meant more than keeping each other company ; it meant that a man 's place was also in the home . |