Example sentences of "[noun pl] mean they [vb mod] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( But it has recently been pointed out that occasional use of these as cavalrymen means they can not have been a wholly depressed class . ) |
| 2 | In the course of our case studies , we found that programmers/analysts capable of working in certain specific software/hardware areas ( for example , IBM System 38 , PICK ) were extremely scarce , in some cases so much so that " nobody is training them any more " ( since high turnover rates meant they would not have the chance to amortise the training investment ) . |
| 3 | They say government cutbacks mean they ca n't do the job properly . |
| 4 | The high cost of winning their franchises means they can not afford to screen any flops . |
| 5 | It is quite likely that the bureaucratic procedure involved in securing the Secretary of State 's approval , via SEAC , to these competitions means they may well wither away . |
| 6 | While recognizing that poor local economic management was partly to blame for the region 's debt crisis , the report argued that what it described as the banks ' irresponsible lending practices meant they should also share responsibility and assume greater losses . |