Example sentences of "means [conj] [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | This point means that where a motor vehicle is required to be fitted with wipers it must also have washers . |
2 | This means that if a person is threatening another 's property in such a way that he is likely to cause another to act in self defence , he commits no offence . |
3 | This means that if a person intends to cause a policeman to react unlawfully , and uses threats , abuse or insults in an attempt to cause the policeman to overreact , he commits the offence if the other ingredients are proved to have occurred . |
4 | But this time lag , combined with dilution by water already in the aquifer , means that if a pollutant enters the ground , it may not affect water supplies for many years . |
5 | This means that if a man is truly brought to faith in Christ , he is not dependent on human teachers to lead him on , helpful though these may be . |
6 | This means that if a job problem arises they do not simply impose a favoured solution . |
7 | This means that if a ruler 's commands did not deserve obedience , resistance to them might be justified . |
8 | This means that if a reaction , in theory , can be divided up into a number of steps the enthalpy change for the overall reaction equals the sum of the enthalpy changes for each step ( see figure 5.9 ) |
9 | This means that if an individual is embedded in such a network , s/he is more liable than one whose network is relatively looseknit to be vulnerable to pressure exerted by everyday social contacts . |
10 | This means that if an individual provides an opportunity to his trust to make a gain and the trust makes a gain the individual can be taxed under s776 . |
11 | Also deduction of the Fund 's initial charge ( where applicable ) means that if an investor withdraws from his investment in the short term he may not get back the amount he originally invested . |
12 | In practice this means that if an order is made transferring the home , the wife 's maintenance will be consequently reduced . |
13 | and what that means that if an organization which has not sponsored something in the arts before decides to do so the government will give a similar amount of money er at a lower ceiling of a thousand and up to a maximum of forty thousand was it ? |
14 | Thus the heat expelled by the computer 's cooling fan means that when a computer records an item in memory , the total amount of disorder in the universe still goes up . |
15 | first , the definition of infanticide is limited to the killing of the child most recently born , which means that when a mother in a disturbed state kills both her last-born child and another slightly older child , the one killing is infanticide and the other may be murder , whereas the defendant 's culpability is surely the same in both cases . |
16 | In a business or management sense it means that when an individual or a company identifies weaknesses , they hire staff or let contracts to handle those jobs that they can not handle themselves . |