Example sentences of "[noun] means [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The requirement of immediate fear means that a threat to carry out violence in the future does not amount to an assault even though fear is present . |
| 2 | Their second defeat in four days by a London club means that a quick return to the present Second Division is more likely than ever for the First Division 's bottom team . |
| 3 | Put in its simplest way , the principle of inverse irreversibility means that a scientist , or anyone else in the business of forming some general ‘ law ’ by which the Universe , or a very large portion of it , is governed , will view his law in direct inverse proportion to the amount and weight of evidence against it . |
| 4 | This criterion means that a great deal of fundamental science such as elementary particle physics or astronomy would not qualify for our support ; but it does not mean that we avoid contact with scientists working in these fields . |
| 5 | This rule means that a customer will generally be kept informed of his position . |
| 6 | It is certainly possible for Parliament to give limited powers of government to local authorities and to local and national assemblies but the doctrine of parliamentary sovereignty means that a subsequent Parliament can repeal the relevant legislation and take back the power . |
| 7 | The fall in cyclic AMP means that a cyclic AMP phosphodiesterase must have been active despite the presence of IBMX ( 0.1 mM ) . |
| 8 | ‘ Faxfinders ’ work means that a computer print out of all outstanding orders of odd lids and bases is produced and sent out to production areas . |
| 9 | On the other hand , the generally low ‘ compliance observability ’ of the teaching-learning process means that a good deal of power and influence is likely always to remain with those who actually operate the system , i.e. the lecturers and students . |
| 10 | The USA , which well within the memory of the majority of its inhabitants , was the world 's leading oil supplier , does not like being dependent on imported oil , particularly oil imported from areas of the world where political unrest means that a loss of supply — for instance through a closure of the Strait of Hormuz — is always a possibility . |
| 11 | Dietary fibre means that a food requires more chewing but it also requires more swallowing . |
| 12 | Also , the need to treat each instalment as a separate amount for ageing purposes means that a great deal of care will need to be given to the analysis of repayment mortgages . |
| 13 | The cost of land drainage or irrigation , buildings and other fixed capital equipment , machinery and livestock means that a farm business has an extremely high level of capitalisation relative to the returns which can be obtained . |
| 14 | The development of electronic devices like digital computers that can have mind-like properties means that a physical basis of mind is much less improbable to us . |
| 15 | Although a large proportion of the population has visual impairment the availability of appropriate glasses or contact lenses means that a much lower percentage of the population has a visual disability . |
| 16 | The coexistence of these two problems means that a choice must be made between an expansionary or contractionary budget depending on the government 's preference : higher employment or stable prices . |
| 17 | The high sugar and alcohol content means that a pudding can become dangerously hot in a microwave . |
| 18 | The reliance on " intuitive observation " in selection means that a heavy burden falls on the reader 's training in the art of alert reading , and of responding to linguistic and other cues . |
| 19 | The reason for placing such emphasis on buying a board of this size is because the stability inherent in high volume means that a big board will be easy to stand on . |
| 20 | The harmonic effect is dissonant , but not unpleasantly so , and the absence of chromaticism means that a background feeling of unity typical of the diatonic system is retained : |
| 21 | During the winter the pump should be removed in any event and this arrangement means that a pool heater can be conveniently installed in its place if desired . |
| 22 | In reality , the theory of wealth ‘ trickling down ’ does not work and the farce of a ‘ representative ’ rather than a delegated democracy means that a high price is extracted from society for the ‘ freedom ’ on offer , since social cohesion and environmental safeguards are no necessary part of the legislative framework which allows capital to keep on growing . |
| 23 | The ruling means that a lot of people , most of them women , are unlikely to be compensated for serious psychological damage done to them at very young ages . ’ |
| 24 | First , the cognitive model which structures the mental space in terms of the schemas of BALANCE and LINKS admits of diverse more superficial realisations , for example the " financial-numerical " metaphors of the play , and this diversity means that a number of alternative image schemas could also arguably explain the patterning . |
| 25 | While the Dak can hardly be called a sprinter , its relative simplicity means that a true ‘ cab rank ’ operation can be staged , with the aircraft out on the pan ready to start as soon as the alarm is raised and a back-up aircraft ready to go beyond that very quickly . |
| 26 | The tedium of routine sampling means that a conscious effort is needed to do the unexpected : ‘ randomness is n't an in-built thing , you always have to think about being random . ’ |
| 27 | Random sampling means that a batch is accepted or rejected on the basis of the number of rejects found after taking a random sample from the batch . |
| 28 | It also supports the principle that a party 's right to treaty performance means that a voluntarily incurred treaty restriction ( in this case a procedural restriction ) upon subsequent treaty-making power will be upheld , even to the detriment of a subsequent third party , ( the United States ) . |
| 29 | However it does mean that the additional information can be removed from the look-up tree , which in turn means that a compression method can now be applied to the tree , such as utilising a directed acyclic word graph ( section 3.2.5 and section 3.3.3 ) . |
| 30 | Everton 's victory in the final of the national women 's water polo cup at Sheffield means that a second gallant band of amateurs face the bitter-sweet task of trying to afford a serious Continental challenge . |