Example sentences of "[vb pp] to mean [conj] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in practice this has come to mean that the C. and A. G. examines , certifies and reports on the annual summarized accounts of the National Health Service taken as a whole , i.e. as the appropriation account presents them . |
| 2 | In the rent review context this has been said to mean that the court will tell surveyors what to value , but not how to value it : Compton Group Ltd v Estates Gazette Ltd ( 1977 ) 244 EG 799 . |
| 3 | A few days after Hitler 's repetition of his ‘ prophecy ’ on 30 January 1942 , the SD reported that his words had been ‘ interpreted to mean that the Führer 's battle against the Jews would be followed through to the end with merciless consistency , and that very soon the last Jew would disappear from European soil ’ . |
| 4 | In Hills v. Ellis , this was interpreted to mean that the act of the defendant must in some way be ‘ aimed at ’ the police , even if there need be no hostility towards them . |
| 5 | It has been interpreted to mean that the wine and beer producing countries should be allowed to institutionalise discrimination against spirits by having quite different tax regimes for competing alcoholic products . |
| 6 | SCFA can maintain normal fluxes in one direction of sodium and chloride in vitro even after a secretory stimulus , a finding that has been interpreted to mean that the pathway for electroneutral NaCl absorption stimulated by SCFA remains unaffected by cyclic AMP . |
| 7 | The intention was to place a legal obstacle in the way of anyone seeking to imitate the Ordainers , but the Statute of York should not be taken to mean that the king and his supporters had a high view of the function of parliament . |
| 8 | This was taken to mean that the Government would tear up the whole treaty rather than accept the social chapter . |
| 9 | This can be taken to mean that the work has already been printed for a limited number of people by private gift or circulation , but has not been published in the sense that it has been offered to the general public . |
| 10 | Trying to put myself in his skin in that room at that time must not , of course , be taken to mean that the act contemplated and later committed by Miller is something that I myself could think of doing . |
| 11 | This is taken to mean that the EC must become ever more integrated . |
| 12 | Yet if isolationism is taken to mean that the USA tried to cut all ties with other nations — to withdraw into " fortress America " — then it is far from accurate . |
| 13 | The term " Unusual Attitudes " is taken to mean that the aircraft has adopted an attitude which could result in either a stall , spin or spiral dive . |
| 14 | This is intended to mean that the object is attended to , and in some sense ‘ enjoyed ’ , for itself , ‘ for its own sake ’ , for the qualities it possesses in itself as apprehended , and which arouse our attention and interest ( p. 4 ) . |
| 15 | A middle course may be achieved by the phrase : " for the purpose of delineation only " , which has been held to mean that the plan must not be taken to be drawn to scale but the lines are correct diagrammatically ( Re Freeman and Taylor 's Contract ( 1907 ) 97 LT 39 ) . |
| 16 | And , to the cynically analytical mind which Charles usually applied to praise , the review could be read to mean that the part grew in stature until the powerfully climactic scene of confrontation with his daughter , at which point , in the hands of this actor , it diminished considerably . |