Example sentences of "[adj] means [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This means great savings for you and your family — so there is more to spend on really enjoying your holiday . |
| 2 | For example , there are today many fewer tuberculosis cases and far more mentally handicapped persons using the services than there were in the 1950s and this means new demands are placed on the staff that they are not always able to meet . |
| 3 | This means old-fashioned armchairs , cotton blankets or a feather duvet , and a traditional type of mattress or a futon . |
| 4 | For handwriting this means matching sequences of x , y coordinates with the characters they represent . |
| 5 | If they do so , the court will give effect to their expressed intention , even if this means overriding words in the reddendum ( Weller v Akehurst [ 1981 ] 3 All ER 411 ) . |
| 6 | Given the difficulty of constructing international institutions ex nihilo I believe that this means British socialists must give more serious attention to the opportunities at EEC level . |
| 7 | The tabloid report implied that this means contractual obligations would be clung to at all costs . |
| 8 | So when something goes wrong it 's likely to be very expensive … and that means new parts |
| 9 | But poll tax capping means cuts in County Council budgets , and that means substantial reductions in the number of new books the library can buy . |
| 10 | There are four banks in all and that means extra accounts and what are you going to do with all that money ? |
| 11 | The result was called the ultraviolet catastrophe " ultraviolet " because that means high frequencies , and " catastrophe " for a reason too obvious to need elaboration . |
| 12 | And that means fiddly switches scattered haphazardly across the dash and centre console like bits of shot fired from a blunderbuss . |
| 13 | Instead he believes priorities have to be drawn up and stuck to even if that means low-priority areas are ignored altogether as is already the case in some parts of the country . |