Example sentences of "this means [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In real terms , this means 20,000 software professionals are now living in the region , while another 7,000 or so students are studying software-related disciplines in Scotland 's 12 universities . |
| 2 | Some people want a lot of local expenditure on public services and are prepared to pay high local taxes ; others want to pay lower local taxes even though this means lower public services . |
| 3 | This means each partner can make a profit by selling assets of up to £5,000 in any one tax year without having a tax bill from the Inland Revenue . |
| 4 | This means great savings for you and your family — so there is more to spend on really enjoying your holiday . |
| 5 | The only advantage identified from using the largest headhunting firms was a ‘ bigger candidate bank ’ ; it is unclear whether or not this means general pool of candidates open to the firm , or the size of their data bank . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | On the other hand , income support provides an income which is very low and this means many families struggle to make ends meet . |
| 8 | The first essential of healthy soil life is air , and this means good subsoil drainage and adequate inter-crumb pores . |
| 9 | This means such writers also reject the notion that it has anything to do with the development and logic of a capitalism as an economic system of production . |
| 10 | This means that migration now has a major impact on population change , even though Ravenstein 's first law is still seen to hold , since Brant ( 1984 ) has shown that of the 9 per cent of people who moved between 1980 and 1981 , a massive 70 per cent moved less than six miles . |
| 11 | For the big institutional investor , this means that money — which could be used to carry out other share trades — is tied up unproductively . |
| 12 | This means that publication of excavation reports , as the Frere Report indicates ( 1975 ) , will also have to be transformed , since large pottery reports may now have become too expensive to print in the traditional manner , and may have to be available in microfiche sheets . |
| 13 | For example , the valley on the west side of the Nile at Luxor containing the Tombs of the Kings appears to be a water-eroded valley , but the tombs themselves show no signs of destructive water action : this means that water action of any significance probably ceased at least 4 000 years ago ( Hume , 1925 ) |
| 14 | This means that missile throwing , although technically perhaps falling within the ambit of this offence , would place on the prosecutor the burden of proving that the missile was directed at a human being rather than at property . |
| 15 | As Attridge shows this means that poetry claiming to be perfecting the natural ( acting according to decorum ) establishes its claim to do so by using a rhetoric which is employed only by a learned few whose language is distanced from the natural language of the majority . |
| 16 | This means that equation ( 10.5 ) has to be modified further and now becomes where is the average cosine of the angle of rotation of the bonds in the backbone chain . |
| 17 | This means that movement from , say , a 3330 to a 3350 will require the definition of new control area sizes unless the number of control areas on a cylinder is already 2n on the 3330 . |
| 18 | If extended , this means that talk of a citizens charter is utter nonsense . |
| 19 | In the enumeration tree , this means that node k can be declared inactive if . |
| 20 | This means that Rule 14e-3 has wide-reaching effects . |
| 21 | This means that food ‘ exported ’ ' to the Vatican ( from a Roman abattoir , say ) is treated as if it were going to a ‘ third country ’ . |
| 22 | In terms of multimedia , this means two things . |
| 23 | This means two terms of taught work followed by a short third term for further personal development and final assessment . |
| 24 | Unless this means actual ballot-rigging , it must refer to bribing people not to put their names forward at deme level for the ballot for the Council ; the candidate who ‘ eagerly put his name forward ’ according to Lysias ( xxxi. 33 ) is evidence that this stage of the process was voluntary . |
| 25 | The Labour Party should be advocating in the strongest terms a substantial increase in Child Benefit , even if this means increasing income tax on people earning as ‘ little ’ as £14,000 , together possibly with increases in excise duties . |
| 26 | This means primary care needs to continue to develop its own capacity to question the decisions that are being taken . |
| 27 | This means changing people 's way of thinking and working , maybe breaking down fences and getting them to share information they might for some reason be reluctant to divulge . |
| 28 | But this means extra weight to punch the tackle out the required distance and also a greater effort , which inevitably leads to inaccuracy . |
| 29 | This means old-fashioned armchairs , cotton blankets or a feather duvet , and a traditional type of mattress or a futon . |
| 30 | ’ If this means fewer funerals and less hospital visits , it is to be greatly welcomed , ’ intoned Mr Peter Bottomley , Minister of Transport . |