Example sentences of "means for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such awareness provided another means for the obsessive anxieties of the establishment to be counterbalanced from within , and as Jacobi ( 1967 : 22 ) suggests , created the potential ability to look truths in the eye and ‘ the courage to renounce what is no longer compatible ’ . |
| 2 | We can at least begin to understand the human life and affection and anger and doubts and suffering and death of God in a way that we could not possibly begin to understand what it means for him to be God . |
| 3 | Hungary drops the ‘ workers ’ : Imre Karacs in Budapest looks at what a change of name and newspaper means for the Hungarian Socialist Workers Party |
| 4 | This means for the neighbourhood man , the man on the beat , that it is difficult for him to keep a low profile . |
| 5 | What the world is saying Former Bonn ambassador writes What it means for arms control All to hail , and all to play for WSLeader Comment , page 22 |
| 6 | Around such alternatives have views polarised in the heated debate over what the bill means for viewers . |
| 7 | What it means for ‘ us ’ is not so much the resurrection of ‘ anti-pop ’ , but a culture of margins ; a disdainful gaze upon the terrain we once occupied , a satellite relationship to a pop centre now barred to us . |
| 8 | Recent surveys find 80% of Americans in favour , though the proportion drops when they are offered the alternative of a life imprisonment that genuinely means for life . |
| 9 | The horse finds balance by bringing his hocks underneath him and also uses this means for brakes and acceleration . |
| 10 | What the NatWest Hospital Income Plan means for you |
| 11 | Intensive indoor rearing of livestock is relatively new and people are only just beginning to realise what it means for the animals . |
| 12 | In the West , the time of retirement for many people is the end of their usefulness and it means for them no more than a hopeless waiting for them . |
| 13 | What this means for the care assistant |
| 14 | What it means for the broader economy is that the current housing crisis is more serious than ever , and there does n't seem to be an end in sight . |
| 15 | It is a very damaging doubt and needs to be blocked firmly by a decisive reaffirmation of what it means for Christianity to be true . |
| 16 | ‘ What this means for Liberal Democrats is that we must be much less exclusive in our approach to politics and much more inclusive to others in this one . |
| 17 | That means for a regular punter , however , that over a period of time , for every £100 staked he or she will end up with £88 in pocket . |
| 18 | In 1792 , Carey by now the pastor of the Harvey Lane Church in Leicester , was persuaded to publish his pamphlet entitled ’ An Enquiry into the Obligation of Christians to Use Means for the Conversion of the Lost ’ . |
| 19 | This point means for example that the gases from the engine escape from the faulty manifold ( which is at the exit point adjacent to the engine ) or a broken front pipe , a broken expansion chamber or from the silencer provided this occurs before they pass through it . |
| 20 | The inroad of foreign capital always means for it some loss of independence , and it has nothing to gain by agreement among competing Empires … |
| 21 | What the death of Jesus means for Christians today |
| 22 | What the death of Jesus means for Christians today |
| 23 | Imagine what that means for your company . |
| 24 | The public understands more easily what it means for an old lady to have five pounds snatched from her purse than to grasp the financial significance of 25 million customers paying one penny more for orange juice diluted beyond the level permitted by law . |
| 25 | For another , Kant had made a sharp distinction between ‘ judgements of fact ’ and ‘ judgements of value ’ , between ‘ This is the case , ’ and ‘ This is what this means for me ’ ; and that distinction had been further developed by the philosopher Lotze ( 1817–81 ) . |
| 26 | By contrast , the consequences and so competences , and hence the adequacies or inadequacies , of natural selection , especially for long-run effects , were practically impossible to decide , at least for a finite intellect ; although the young Darwin himself could consistently suppose that God in choosing this means for adapting life to a changing earth had foreseen all its consequences . |
| 27 | Advertising has always had a place in the newspaper ; some of the earliest newspapers were essentially means for communicating notices of events , such as the arrival of ships . |
| 28 | This positive approach to a differentiated industrial structure means for example that ‘ the Japanese economic and social situation guarantees the right to set up one 's own business and the entrepreneurial spirit is alive and well ’ ( Y. Sato 1984 p.21 ) . |
| 29 | Laws and institutions primarily provide governments with one ( but not the only ) means for achieving such ends ; their function as tools for controlling government activity is only secondary . |
| 30 | Essentially , it outlines means for getting France around EC laws while paying lip-service to federalism and political union . |