Example sentences of "[adj] means [pron] [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | This means they can move straight through woods and debris and such like . |
| 4 | This means they can have many particles in the same state . |
| 5 | This means they can enjoy a higher standard of living even though they themselves do not work harder to produce more . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | This means they must obtain a faculty from the chancellor of the diocese . |
| 8 | ‘ This means we will have to consider whatever parliamentary opportunities are available to us , ’ he said . |
| 9 | ‘ This means we will have total control over our site , ’ he said . |
| 10 | All this means we can forget about The Communards ' cover version of ‘ Never Can Say Goodbye ’ , and we can forget about the wretched Pet Shop Boys , the only successful contemporary pop ironists . |
| 11 | This means we can work out how a given circle might have been produced or drawn : perhaps it was traced by the movement of one end of a rigid rod whose other end was fixed , perhaps by a weight whirled round on string . |
| 12 | This means we can test ( x 1 , … , x n ) for efficiency in VMP by testing it for optimality in LP* ( x 1 , … , x n ) . |
| 13 | This means we can use governors in areas where the above |
| 14 | This means we can add the constraint without affecting the optimal solution . |
| 15 | This means we can multiply the weighting factors of LP ( w 1 , … , w p ) by any positive scale factor . |
| 16 | This means we can find all efficient solutions of VMP by solving the parametric programming problem LP ( 1 , θ ) for θ > 0 , using the procedures of Chapter 6 . |
| 17 | This means we could have in the ( unrealistic ) case of two subjects per group , TV group : young and little-educated , old and well-educated non-TV group : young and well-educated , old and little-educated . |
| 18 | This means we could take away a lot of your rights and make many decisions about your child without you being involved . |
| 19 | This means we should involve the community from the earliest age . ’ |
| 20 | This means we must control the governments of these states . |
| 21 | In the case of P3 , this means we must examine the constraints of the dual problem of LP ( 1 + v 1 , 1 + v 2 , I + V 3 ) which are |
| 22 | This means he may lose all his money if the sharedealer crashes . |
| 23 | This means he must look for what had the most far-reaching effects . |
| 24 | This means he will get the backing of the crowd for 90 minutes and that is invaluable at Old Trafford where , if you do n't score after 20 minutes , things can go quiet and even the boldest of players can become intimidated . |
| 25 | This means you could sit at your workstation and ‘ talk ’ to a computer on the other side of the world . |
| 26 | This means you could fit bus-mastering hard disk controller and network interface cards to improve data throughput — the name of the game in networking . |
| 27 | This means you could specialise in property , planning and construction ; insurance ; banking , merchant banking and asset finance ; oil chemicals ; pharmaceuticals ; engineering ; telecommunications ; electronic and computer information technology ; manufacturing of household or heavy industrial goods , ships , aircraft or vehicles ; entertainment ; leisure ; imports and exports ; distribution ; marketing ; advertising . |
| 28 | This means you must make a test for every Orc infantry or cavalry unit . |
| 29 | This means you must test for every Goblin infantry and cavalry unit . |
| 30 | You have to know where you are all the time ; this means you must know what mile number you are at , so on day 4 you may be at mile 47 . |