Example sentences of "it means the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In practice , as Chris Patten seems to acknowledge , it means the latter option . |
| 2 | It means the new Control Data Systems Inc company will start life as a $600m or so a year business , leaving its bigger sister , Ceridian Corp running at about $700m a year . |
| 3 | Yes , because the snag is with that is that it means the vast amount of , and then the gypsum that is produced has got to be disposed of has n't it , so that the limestone is mined and then they 've got to get rid of the gypsum . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm happy to help if it means the right thing is done by poor Harriet . |
| 5 | ‘ It means the long waiting lists for surgery and outpatients will be substantially shortened in the next few months , ’ Dr Mulholland said . |
| 6 | It means the total amount of the undistributed income arising under the settlement ( therefore capital gains are excluded ) but excluding any income which is deemed under the settlement provisions to be taxed on the settlor and any amount which has already been taken into account as a capital sum under the section . |
| 7 | It means the standard theory of the fundamental force underlying beta decay , the weak interaction , will need something of an overhaul . |
| 8 | ‘ It means the Soviet Motherland . |
| 9 | Miliary er i it it refers , well you 've heard of millet seed and it 's it refers to a seeding of many different lesions er , around the body it means the disseminated form of of tuberculosis where the lesions occur all over the place . |
| 10 | Communication is not achieved by putting something that means — one thing to us in front of someone else and hoping that it means the same thing to that other person . |
| 11 | If the same word is used in more than one place in a document , it will be assumed that it means the same thing each time it appears . |
| 12 | It means the same thing . |
| 13 | It means the Third World is exporting more commodities in terms of quantity , but the money it earns from them is reduced and can buy fewer and fewer imported goods . |
| 14 | If they 've asked for really impossible things , it means the whole siege has been done for publicity — and they 'll probably kill Liam whatever happens . |
| 15 | It means the whole sale change of forms and colours and it must reduce the range of other colours that we have for other forms , do n't necessarily go into those wallets . |