Example sentences of "means [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It means Gary does n't have to pay as much on the mortgage . |
| 2 | And we sang Hatikwa and Mishmar Hajarden — which means watch on the Jordan — and so we begin to think of Zion — and a home in the land of Palestine . |
| 3 | Kettle is the Cockney word for watch because ‘ kettle on the hob ’ rhymes with fob ( which went with a fob watch ) hence ‘ kettle ’ means watch . |
| 4 | The verdict means Ivor Stokle and Pauline Leyshon can now begin to rebuild their lives . |
| 5 | ‘ To me as a Peruvian , ’ David said , his deep , brown eyes alive with the topic , ‘ nationalism means Manu , means biological diversity . |
| 6 | ‘ That means Goering must have been in on it ? |
| 7 | That means Newry 's Errol Lutton , who got a late call to Poland after Ger Burns had to withdraw through injury , keeps his place , a further chance to establish himself as a regular in the international set-up . |
| 8 | Cos you know , th th it was mentioned the other week , that word , that name , it means pleasantness . |
| 9 | By this means attitudes towards , as well as experiences of , investigating child sexual abuse were elicited . |
| 10 | ‘ indemnity rules ’ means rules made under section 37 of the Solicitors Act 1974 ; |
| 11 | ( d ) ‘ indemnity rules ’ means rules made under section 37 of the Solicitors Act 1974 and section 9 of the Act ; |
| 12 | ‘ The sock is a highly sensitive conjugal object , ’ he declares in La Trame Conjugale ( a cunning title ; la trame means framework , it can also mean linen ) . |
| 13 | The proper name for cretinism is hypothyroidism , which means hypo is not enough as in hypothermia , thyroid means thyroid , -ism , it 's the three things they check for , can I pull that down ? |
| 14 | For some , that means macroeconomics : hence the promotion of Sir Terence Burns to be permanent secretary at the Treasury , after 11 years as the government 's chief economic adviser . |
| 15 | Huy could not guess by what means Reni had saved himself and his family from the debacle that followed Akhenaten 's fall ; but he knew many good men whose ruin had been the price the scribe had paid to be sitting here now , and the thought tempered his sympathy . |
| 16 | There 's a legal term , caveat emptor , which means buyer beware , so when viewing it pays to be suspicious . |
| 17 | That means checks in your GP 's surgery on the height , weight , growth , development of the senses and other essential features in the first five years of your child 's life . |
| 18 | That means division that 's what , you 've done them right , they 're divisions but three into twelve goes four but at the same time four times three is twelve , you can change it into a multiplication but it , it does n't start off as one . |
| 19 | It just goes to prove the old saying that … beans means times ! |
| 20 | And that means technique . |
| 21 | Advent of low cost processors allowing DSP algorithms to be implemented with relative ease means electronics engineers now have much greater awareness of its potential — certainly not the case five years ago . |
| 22 | Hence selection without these tests — which means reliance on grades , conduct , or family connections — is likely to be more biased than selection without them , Many state school systems have stopped routine intelligence testing , which means that most children will lose the benefits of a proper use of their scores in individualising instruction . |
| 23 | Todays toil to lower the level of the brook takes a bitmore than one man and his dog , but the necessary speed of the work means thispiece of Georgian architecture will be hidden once more in a few days when the brook 's allowed to flow through here again . |
| 24 | Unlike earlier revolutions , there will not be a new exploiting class , for rule by the proletariat means self-government by the working-class majority . |
| 25 | The system means calls can be located in just 30 seconds at the push of a button , including those made from mobile phones , call boxes and even abroad . |
| 26 | ‘ quality does not mean expense and luxury : it means reliability and service , and satisfying agreed requirements — it is the key to operating on a world-class level . ’ |
| 27 | The other five millions include the labourers and less skilled workers , male and female , whose maximum wages only suffice for the necessities and barest decencies of existence , and for whom therefore any mischance means penury , passing swiftly into pauperism . ’ |
| 28 | The word ‘ new ’ actually means opportunity , the possibility of the removal of a constraint , the possibility of achieving competitive advantage , the possibility of moving faster in the direction which we have set . |
| 29 | Today the Aymara people are still second class citizens in their own country , but Awatinas which means guardians , are determined to keep their native songs alive . |
| 30 | Among the slogans of the Stefan the Great Movement are not only ‘ Liberty ’ , but also ‘ Unity ’ , which means unity with Romania . |