Example sentences of "[pron] is meant [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Every product undergoes change with the passage of time and sooner or later becomes unsatisfactory , by which is meant in this context that it no longer conforms to its specification .
2 Furthermore , what is meant by economic development has also changed .
3 What is meant by self-indexing files ?
4 In order to fully understand what is meant by Religious Education in the Catholic Secondary School it is necessary to refer to two other distinct , yet at times overlapping , concepts namely Evangelisation and Catechesis .
5 To point out what is meant by effective study .
6 And this little book , I do n't know whether you 've come across it , is a fairly technical description of what 's happening in different parts of the world , and what is meant by sustainable management of tropical crops .
7 That is , the depth of particular religions not only contains a clue to the meaning of ultimate reality , as Tillich maintains , but is the only means open to man to understand what is meant by ultimate reality , for the concept itself acquires its meaning from its use in a particular mode of discourse .
8 What is meant by political control of the police in a liberal democracy ?
9 Describe in a short sentence what is meant by each word on your list , but do not use the key word in the description .
10 What is meant by quantitative restrictions and measures having equivalent effect in Article 30 of the Treaty has been the subject of a whole series of decisions of the European Court to which the attention of the Court of Appeal ought to have been drawn .
11 Learning is necessary ; but it is not part of what is meant by higher education .
12 I intend to approach this problem piece by piece and in the final section ( section 1.6 ) I shall attempt to outline a general concept of what is meant by structural change .
13 To illustrate more clearly what is meant by structural unemployment , consider a region within a country which has traditionally specialised in ship-building .
14 What is meant by these terms and explain why butane can be convieniently stored as a liquid in a can , whereas methane can not .
15 Such figures depend on what is meant by sexual abuse ’ ( p.5 ) .
16 Er y your use of the phrase self containment leads me to ask the question , which is that , well in my book it does n't necessarily mean the same thing as an integrated and balanced community , but I 'll put Mr Davis on notice to define what is meant by those adjectives .
17 The statute — which authorizes interception on grounds of national security without defining what is meant by national security — is clearly much wider than the old Home Office guidelines — which authorized warrants on the narrower grounds of ‘ major subversive or espionage activity ’ .
18 It will use secondary analysis of an existing database , collected in a longitudinal study of social support and childbearing , to explore what is meant by social support , both in terms of family and social networks and from the point of view of the health and welfare services .
19 However opinions vary as to what is meant by social support , and how it can best be measured , although the extent to which an individual feels that they have someone to confide in appears to be important .
20 They are what is meant by indirect discrimination .
21 What is meant by informal organizations are those groupings which the employees themselves have developed in accordance with their own needs .
22 Most are in country areas of high amenity value which attract outsiders — anglers and tourists — with decided views about what is meant by clean water .
23 Clause 8 gives the haulier the right to dismiss an Overdrive employee , but is not an easy clause to understand ; for instance , what is meant by gross misconduct ?
24 This is , of course , what is meant by dramatic playing as it was defined in Chapter Three , the mode of dramatic behaviour espoused by Peter Slade .
25 What is meant by this term ?
26 We shall now take a more detailed look at what is meant by this term .
27 Bidding for the proposed agency work allows the left to open up a new debate , and above all begins a dialogue with the voters on what is meant in everyday terms by a devolution of power .
28 But that but that 's my point really , we it 's not really defined what what is meant in this criteria by criteria
29 It is expected that students will understand what is meant in this context by the terms rank , cohesion , and context of situation , and that they will know something of those recent developments with which the term ‘ Systemic ’ is particularly associated .
30 POWELL : Ah , ah , I , I am saying in addition that that either meant that the thing was going to be vetoed anyhow by the Falkland Islanders , and that therefore even if Britain wanted to get rid of , of sovereignty , she was n't going to get rid of it in terms of her own statement ; or that the Falkland Islanders were going to be put under so much pressure , ah — we need n't go into the details of what is meant in those connections , by pressure ; I 'm sure the Foreign Office will supply the details if requested — ah , would be put under so much pressure that eventually they would collapse and give way .
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