Example sentences of "[adj] means [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To trigger section 76(2) ( b ) , however , it must be the case that there something was ‘ said or done ’ which was likely to render a confession unreliable , and it has been held that this means something said or done to D , as distinct from some words or conduct of D himself ( Goldenberg ( 1988 ) 88 Cr.App.R. 285 ) . |
| 2 | This means one must avoid calling from another room , talking with your face in shadow , walking away before you have finished the sentence or calling something over your shoulder as you go out of the door . |
| 3 | This means they have been inspected by a team of professional experts and the standard of their work has been approved . |
| 4 | In practice this means they can borrow more cheaply than banks and thrifts which , being unable to compete with them , have increasingly decided to join them . |
| 5 | They listen to their customers and make incremental improvements in mature systems of management and organisation to improve the service they offer people , by this means they enhance their reputation for quality and reliability . |
| 6 | This means they must obtain a faculty from the chancellor of the diocese . |
| 7 | This means they slow down the volatility rate of the top and middle notes thus improving on the ‘ staying power ’ of the perfume . |
| 8 | This means they have added little or no mark-up ( see page 145 ) — they are selling the item(s) at a loss . |
| 9 | This means they take no risk when they stock it , as they are reimbursed for any copies left unsold at the end of the week . |
| 10 | By this means they covered about thirty paces before they were forced to drop to the ground well away from the track . |
| 11 | Sometimes this means they have more room for wheel toys , but often it gives them a chance to make their own den to hide away in with a favourite toy . |
| 12 | This means they can be reabsorbed by the body . |
| 13 | This means they do n't do you much good , but neither do they do you any harm . |
| 14 | This means they must be mounted on a strong flat base on a good floor — not bouncy floorboards . |
| 15 | This means they must have been capable of crawling onto the land , like the sole survivors today of such creatures , called the dipnoans , a type of fish with lungs which live in Africa , Australia and South America . |
| 16 | This means they are often in the hands of high officials or the extremely rich — the very people who are hardest to persuade to give up their illegal captives . |
| 17 | This means they can they can be deployed as skirmishers and use the rules for skirmishers on page 90 of the Warhammer rulebook . |
| 18 | This means they can move straight through woods and debris and such like . |
| 19 | This means they are less likely to accept price hikes in future . |
| 20 | This means they will not stick to each other , which could make the composite useful as a high-definition toner for colour photocopying machines . |
| 21 | In either case this means they are already out of hand . |
| 22 | This means they must actively encourage a more selective approach to custodial remand and sentencing . |
| 23 | This means they are taken on a daily basis to farms and other work-places outside the prison . |
| 24 | This means they start parenthood in a state of severe emotional stress and fatigue . |
| 25 | This means they are less in touch with software developments . |
| 26 | This means they must always be the same distance apart . |
| 27 | This means they can be stored in a scientific calculator . |
| 28 | Many of these married women are also low paid , especially those in part-time jobs , and this means they too have a high risk of being poor ( Millar , 1991a ; Susan Lonsdale 's chapter here ) . |
| 29 | This means they can have many particles in the same state . |
| 30 | This means they have to spend their first days of life in hospital and ca n't go home for several weeks . |