Example sentences of "[det] [vb mod] mean a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may mean a change in management attitudes and practice within the supplying company . |
| 2 | For some students , for example those who to wish to take up technical apprenticeships , this may mean a decision to leave school . |
| 3 | In practice , this may mean a child being tested does not understand the wording of a question . |
| 4 | This may mean a lot of waiting ! |
| 5 | For many pensioner couples , this should mean a reduction in their tax liability . |
| 6 | In the case of those from the bath-house this could mean a date before 325 ; for those of the abaton , especially that of room L , a later date might be appropriate . |
| 7 | Diana Elbourne is correct that the volume of placental transfusion received will contribute to the recorded birth weight ; theoretically this could mean a difference of up to 6% . |
| 8 | Given the current estimates on income to be generated by the lottery , this could mean a loss of as much as £4 million annually to Scottish sport . |
| 9 | In the short run this could mean a property tax with substantial rebates for poor households . |
| 10 | This could mean a lot , or very little , depending on the urgency of the ‘ planning ’ and the effectiveness of the control mechanisms in the hands of the government . |
| 11 | For the top teams in the group of eight this would mean a total of 40 league games as opposed to the 44 matches which will have to be fulfilled if the 12-club division continued for another season . |
| 12 | In the case of text recognition , this would mean a bottom-up flow of data and results , working from the character recognition stage to the application of world knowledge . |
| 13 | This would mean a bias to methods which give consumers a way of registering their preferences and those which encourage competition amongst suppliers . |
| 14 | This would mean an amendment of Further Education Grant Regulations ‘ so as to give less prominence to the length of course as compared with other and equally important criteria ’ such as the quality of teaching and the amount of written work done by students ( Recommendation 10 ) . |
| 15 | This would mean an end to skiing facilities , a marked drop in the development of tourism , the removal of car parks and access roads and a strick control of land owning . |
| 16 | This will mean a change in the balance of their work which has traditionally involved planning and delivering INSET and curriculum development with advisory teachers and others , often based in teachers ' centres rather than schools . |
| 17 | Although Resolution 242 affirmed the need for a just settlement of the refugee problem , few in the international arena believe that this will mean a return of refugees to the part of Palestine that became Israel . |
| 18 | Suppose it lowers the prices it is prepared to pay ; this will mean a capital loss to the discount house if it has just given a bank a price consistent with current yields . |
| 19 | This will mean a flood of new commercials too . ’ |
| 20 | This will mean a person-centred , experiential approach to learning . |
| 21 | But this will mean a decline in capital projects such as roads , housing , schools and sewers , with the net result that there is a decline in the country 's infrastructure and long-term damage to the economy . |
| 22 | This will mean an increase in the average access time of 0.0014R . |
| 23 | For a family of four this can mean a saving of up to £300 on a 14-night stay . |
| 24 | For many companies this can mean a saving of up to 10% per year on energy , maintenance and labour costs . |
| 25 | For someone who is only moderately active , that could mean a 7- or 8 lb ( 3- or 3.5-kg ) increase in weight over a year . |
| 26 | On the other hand , no funds and no subsidy schemes at all would mean an end to cultural policies . |
| 27 | Added to the sweeteners they 'd have to pay back , that would mean a deficit of nearly £130m . |
| 28 | That would mean a cut of £5bn , Mr King said — roughly the same as the annual cost of the Royal Navy . |
| 29 | That would mean a takeover would give Kingfisher over 26 per cent . |
| 30 | That would mean an increase of four hundrd per cent . |