Example sentences of "[Wh det] [is] meant " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then American military helicopters drift about the sky : a show of strength which is meant to secure American interests on the island , to make it safe for the bauxite investment . |
| 2 | With such an inauspicious start to the congress which is meant to be a demonstration of unity , the organisers have had to take precautions . |
| 3 | In fact it something called the ‘ Gospel According to Shug ’ , which is meant to be taken seriously : ‘ HELPED are those who love the lesbian , the gay and the straight , as they love the sun , the moon and the stars . |
| 4 | In his critique of rationalism in politics Michael Oakeshott drew a distinction between two forms of human knowledge : ‘ technique ’ , that is , skills which can be taught or acquired from manuals ; and ‘ practical ’ , by which is meant things like judgement or artistry . |
| 5 | The first is traditionalism , by which is meant that Conservatives have an attachment to established customs and institutions , and , as a corollary , a hostility to ‘ sudden , precipitate and revolutionary change ’ . |
| 6 | Mr Cameron has now complained to the EC — which is meant to have created an EC-wide 1992 regime for pressure vessels . |
| 7 | By which is meant that they have developed their ability to focus both senses and mind upon a thought process . |
| 8 | Notice that a dependent reason is not one which does in fact reflect the balance of reasons on which it depends : it is one which is meant to do so . |
| 9 | Used alone they exhibit a specific characteristic known as inverse solubility by which is meant that as temperature increases they drop out of solution contrary to expected behaviour . |
| 10 | Every product undergoes change with the passage of time and sooner or later becomes unsatisfactory , by which is meant in this context that it no longer conforms to its specification . |
| 11 | They argued that the basis of the national assessment system should be essentially formative , that is designed to contribute to learning and not simply summative , by which is meant the simple recording of acquired knowledge or skill . |
| 12 | The only valid context for physical sex is marriage , by which is meant a permanent relationship , publicly acknowledged and entered into with mutual promises . |
| 13 | Before grapes are allowed the full AOC status of Champagne , the vines from which they come , whether situated in a virgin vineyard or an old one just replanted , must attain their ‘ third leaf ’ , by which is meant that the plants , having produced foliage for the third time , will be three years old . |
| 14 | Rob Andrew had a quiet game , which is meant as a compliment because whatever he did was done efficiently and without fuss , whilst he always took the right option . |
| 15 | Not so much a gentleman actually , more a devious swine , since this means I get the overhang which is meant to be the crux . |
| 16 | Bornstein ( 1979 ) , however , points out the problems of using fingerspelling which is meant to follow spoken language exactly . |
| 17 | IBM , Boeing and Paramax , a Unisys Corp company , are collaborating on STARS , which is meant to develop and integrate technologies in support of megaprogramming . |
| 18 | They used the System Development and Multitasking ( SDM ) suite which is meant to reflect operating system efficiency together with I/O , MPU , memory and cache . |
| 19 | The money went to found the Scottish International Educational Trust , a fund based in Edinburgh which is meant to ‘ benefit Scotland ’ . |
| 20 | ( This is not an explanation which is meant to compete with structural explanations relating the phenomenon to the suppression of women , but one which adds another dimension . |
| 21 | In this book the city is Tyneside and its environs by which is meant the areas of the four metropolitan districts of Newcastle , North Tyne side , Gates head and South Tyneside , together with over spill suburbs in South Northumberland and North Durham . |
| 22 | In the detailed examination of the spatial organization of Tyneside , use will be made of the idea of ‘ Northern Tyneside ’ , by which is meant the metropolitan districts of Newcastle and North Tyneside together with the adjacent county districts of Blyth Valley and Castle Morpeth . |
| 23 | On the one hand , ‘ family life ’ , by which is meant the life of the nuclear family , is much praised in government statements . |
| 24 | ‘ If you have a room which is meant to be a meeting place of all the chief Daleks , and what they 're talking about is power — power over other civilisations , power over other planets — then power and domination is what comes through in the dialogue , and is the feeling behind what you want to create . |
| 25 | A ‘ big discharge ’ which is ‘ way outside the limits ’ ( by which is meant ‘ two to three times the limits ’ ) is described as ‘ serious ’ and presumably demands action , though no reference is made as to remedy . |
| 26 | With the exception of the discourse studies , they do not week to construct an image of the contemporary ideology of racism , by which is meant the socially shared pattern of ideas about race and nationality circulating in contemporary society . |
| 27 | There can be little doubt that liberalization ( by which is meant effective restriction of the colonial trade to a larger number of Spanish merchants than under the old system ) greatly increased the volume and the proportion of Spanish goods in the legal trade , and therefore acted as a direct stimulant to industrial and commercial revival . |
| 28 | Both exhibitions are concerned with that representation of the figure which is meant to evoke an awareness in the viewer of subtlety and process , of the deceit of the eye in which , Pygmalion-like , we knowingly participate . |
| 29 | Whilst this might be true , for some years now invertebrate neurophysiologists ( by which is meant those who study invertebrates , not a special group of researchers without backbones ! ) , who used to speak of their pet organisms as having simple nervous systems , have rephrased their claim , and refer instead to them as having ‘ simple ’ nervous systems , the inverted commas being deliberately added as a recognition that the complexity of these systems is still many orders of magnitude higher than in the genuinely simple wiring that one might expect of a mere computer . |
| 30 | However , some authors suggest that governmental elites , by which is meant the permanent officials within a government bureaucracy . |