Example sentences of "[noun sg] often mean " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also , it was argued that the ‘ relaxation ’ of the criminal process for juveniles in practice often means simply the abandonment of the safeguards guaranteed by the ‘ due process ’ of law , and a slipshod approach to , for example , the vital matter of guilt determination . |
| 2 | The styling often means that they are ideal for both casual and serious outdoor use . |
| 3 | However , now that the resources for higher education — both for research and teaching — are limited or declining , more money for one department often means less for another . |
| 4 | Changes in membership of the fund raising committee often means a different outlook and a change in priorities . |
| 5 | Going out straight from work often means a fast re-style on dry hair so revitalising mousses and sprays are essential . |
| 6 | Foraging for food in the depths of winter often means travelling through deep snow , and this takes its toll of the goat population . |
| 7 | Marital breakdown often means that families must move — 58 per cent had done so in the Bradshaw and Millar survey . |
| 8 | But today , wearing the right tie often means wearing the right label . |
| 9 | To accept corporate support often means to submit to corporate control : supply upon demand ; accommodation with consent . |
| 10 | He added that the demands imposed on teachers by the National Curriculum often meant there was not enough time for cycling lessons , but many of the town 's primary schools were involved . |
| 11 | He added that demands placed on teachers by the national curriculum often meant there was not enough time for cycling lessons , but many of the town 's primary schools were involved . |
| 12 | Shopping at the company store often means a long wait in the queue , so the children line up for the groceries , while Domitila sells her pies ( Barrios de Chungara and Viezzar 1978 ) . |
| 13 | We 've all seen pictures of Page 3 girls and pornographic images of women showing the female body in a constantly inviting , sexual way just walking into a newsagent 's on a Sunday morning often means you are surrounded by them ) and it is hardly surprising if girls themselves , as well as men , sometimes feel confused ; believing that girls might ‘ want ’ to be raped , or are asking for trouble , if they dress up to go out , or behave independently by going out or walking home alone . |
| 14 | Journalism often means long hours but it 's better than working . |
| 15 | Either one could discard what the philosopher had said about women and keep the rest — which in fact often meant accepting conceptions of human nature that took the male as paradigm , and trying to demonstrate that women were as fully human as men , or one could argue that the philosopher 's thought formed a system within which the attitude towards women formed an inseparable part ( see Elshtain 's ( 1981 ) discussion of the private-public distinction or Grimshaw ( 1986 ) for the examples of Aristotle and Kant ) , so that it was impossible just to take certain parts and leave the rest . |
| 16 | The joys of design often mean that there is a tendency to design and attempt to install a totally new system if the old one is seen not to be working particularly well . |
| 17 | But certain features of syntactic structure such as restrictions on word order , the principle of end-weight , and the natural phraseology of the target language often mean that the thematic organization of the source text has to be abandoned . |
| 18 | In the case of writers whose taste is to be trusted the very oddness of a recipe often means that here is something worth special investigation . |
| 19 | Inadequate funding combined with inadequate staffing often means that the ideals which are central to a change of programme are rarely realised . |