Example sentences of "a [adj] meaning " in BNC.
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| 1 | To avoid these difficulties in making formative assessments , our current curriculum development initiative , ‘ Learning Mathematics and Science through Investigative Work ’ ( Murphy and Denvir , in preparation ) , which focuses on assessment only insofar as it assists the teaching and learning process , aims to establish a rich meaning in the learning activities which are selected . |
| 2 | They were not ; the paintings were laughing and the laughs had a subtle meaning . |
| 3 | Events which have been implicated in schizophrenia are of a more everyday nature ( although it is possible that many also have a private meaning ) , and a very wide range of emotionally arousing events may trigger a relapse . |
| 4 | It is the purpose of this book to show that there is a possible meaning to the historical word ‘ god ’ , which involves an amalgamation into one central understanding , of all the known facts of evolution with many of the manifestations of unexplained mysteries which also affect human life . |
| 5 | Held , dismissing the appeals , ( 1 ) that , on its true construction , section 6(3) ( a ) of the Act of 1980 had to be given a literal meaning ; that where a school was over-subscribed compliance with the preference of all the applicants would necessarily prejudice efficient education , and in such circumstances the school had to have an admissions policy , which would inevitably result in defeating the preference of some applicants , whatever criteria were adopted ; and that , accordingly , since the school was over-subscribed , there was no duty on the governors to give effect to the applicants ' preferences ( post , pp. 100H — 101B , 106H , 107G–H , 108A , G–H ) . |
| 6 | It was originally designed for the business community to have a broad meaning of commercial saleability in the case of unascertained goods by description . |
| 7 | Provided we give a narrow meaning to ‘ intention ’ the law may well for practical purposes come close to the proposition that it is tortious intentionally to cause damage by any unlawful act , but it has developed by way of distinct , nominate torts and it is necessary to retain that division for the purposes of exposition . |
| 8 | This means the term " indirectly " has a narrow meaning . |
| 9 | Several observers even suggested ( wrongly ) that ‘ skilled ’ and ‘ unskilled ’ no longer had a definite meaning and , therefore , the important distinction was between ‘ good ’ and ‘ bad ’ occupations . |
| 10 | The words used in the Act of Settlement , ‘ and the heirs of her body ’ were well known to the common law and had a definite meaning . |
| 11 | Nor can it be a matter of the effects he intends to cause in hearers , for one may say something with a definite meaning , with all sorts of different such intentions , and , in any case , the causal theory as advanced by Stevenson is concerned with the actual causal potency of language , not with what is intended . |
| 12 | In the case of words which combine a fairly definite descriptive meaning with a valuational meaning it is rather a puzzle to say what correct linguistic usage bids one do , if one recognizes that something answers to the descriptive meaning , but does not have the attitude towards it which the word expresses in virtue of its ‘ value charge ’ , as one might put it . |
| 13 | But the term takes on a specific meaning in those studies in the sociology of policing which are inspired by ethnomethodology and phenomenology , where it describes a quality of the accomplishment of these tasks — that they are produced in a taken-for-granted , commonsensical , and habitual manner . |
| 14 | definitions of words which may be new to students , or which have a specific meaning |
| 15 | Liberty for Hayek has a specific meaning . |
| 16 | Contrast also grants priority to lexical expressions that conventionally convey a specific meaning . |
| 17 | However , once they learn the conventional term for a specific meaning , they must give up their own coinage and begin instead to use the conventional term . |
| 18 | The recognition of a word during reading is the process by which a purely visual stimulus is understood as the symbol for a specific meaning . |
| 19 | ( 2 ) This Schedule and Policy shall be read together as one contract and any word or expression to which a specific meaning has been attached in any part of the said Schedule or Policy shall bear such specific meaning wherever the word or expression may appear . |
| 20 | His definition of a statutory constitution does , however , allow us to distinguish constitutional law from other law by clear criteria , thus giving the term not just a specific meaning , but a meaning with consequences . |
| 21 | The key-words you adopt for your pattern-note must easily recall a specific meaning for you . |
| 22 | This Policy and the Schedule shall be read together and any word or expression to which a specific meaning has been attached in any part of this Policy or of the Schedule shall bear such meaning wherever it may appear . |
| 23 | Universities can and have contributed to Geological Survey research , for example in producing the map and descriptive ‘ Memoir ’ ( this term is used with a specific meaning in geology ) for the Aberdeen area ( Sheet 77 ) , part of the survey work was carried out by Ph D students from the University of Aberdeen on contract to the Geological Survey . |
| 24 | These ratings of a specific meaning were made possible by a two-stage assessment procedure carried out by the members of the research team , rather than using self-rating questionnaire methods . |
| 25 | Yet during family sessions , feelings can rise so quickly that very damaging statements can be made , which may be frank and honest but have a destructive meaning or impact that would not be intended in calmer and more reasonable moments . |
| 26 | There is a figurative meaning of impressions on the mind … but this meaning applies only to objects that are interesting . |
| 27 | It has in addition a resplendent meaning in that life before retirement is only childhood and the period of retirement is the time when we reach maturity and realise the full significance of life . |
| 28 | In contrast to this , according to the emotivist thesis , the typical cause and effect of a statement like ‘ Personal affection is a great good ’ is not any kind of genuine belief , which could be true or false , but an emotional attitude of favouring personal affection , which each of us may find ourselves either sharing or otherwise , but which we can not properly call true or false ; it therefore has primarily an emotive rather than a descriptive meaning . |
| 29 | Stevenson himself thought that it was only in virtue of a descriptive meaning , which ethical sentences typically had as well as their emotive meaning , that they could function in this sort of context . |
| 30 | Hence , the quotation marks around the word ‘ doing ’ emphasize that it has a technical meaning in sociology , for lying behind the process is a body of common-sense and official police knowledge which informs the methods and practices according to which activities are done . |