Example sentences of "is mean [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They complain that OSF 's price list is meant for higher end machines and they are muttering something about ‘ large volumes ’ . |
| 2 | Generalising , a thick grip is meant for big hands and a thinner grip for small hands . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It is expected that students will understand what is meant in this context by the terms rank , cohesion , and context of situation , and that they will know something of those recent developments with which the term ‘ Systemic ’ is particularly associated . |
| 5 | But that but that 's my point really , we it 's not really defined what what is meant in this criteria by criteria |
| 6 | POWELL : Ah , ah , I , I am saying in addition that that either meant that the thing was going to be vetoed anyhow by the Falkland Islanders , and that therefore even if Britain wanted to get rid of , of sovereignty , she was n't going to get rid of it in terms of her own statement ; or that the Falkland Islanders were going to be put under so much pressure , ah — we need n't go into the details of what is meant in those connections , by pressure ; I 'm sure the Foreign Office will supply the details if requested — ah , would be put under so much pressure that eventually they would collapse and give way . |
| 7 | Bidding for the proposed agency work allows the left to open up a new debate , and above all begins a dialogue with the voters on what is meant in everyday terms by a devolution of power . |
| 8 | Ordinariness is meant in several senses . |
| 9 | German speakers have difficulty in distinguishing between " bring " and " take " in English as these are translated by one German word " bringen " , but the English speaker has difficulty trying to decide which of the two English words is meant in any statement containing the German word " bringen " . |
| 10 | To point out what is meant by effective study . |
| 11 | Describe in a short sentence what is meant by each word on your list , but do not use the key word in the description . |
| 12 | What is meant by self-indexing files ? |
| 13 | That is , the depth of particular religions not only contains a clue to the meaning of ultimate reality , as Tillich maintains , but is the only means open to man to understand what is meant by ultimate reality , for the concept itself acquires its meaning from its use in a particular mode of discourse . |
| 14 | What is meant by quantitative restrictions and measures having equivalent effect in Article 30 of the Treaty has been the subject of a whole series of decisions of the European Court to which the attention of the Court of Appeal ought to have been drawn . |
| 15 | In Brutus v. Cozens , the House declined to attempt to define what is meant by insulting , and later courts have not sought to do what the House would not , although they have sought to give guidance as to what the term might mean . |
| 16 | And this little book , I do n't know whether you 've come across it , is a fairly technical description of what 's happening in different parts of the world , and what is meant by sustainable management of tropical crops . |
| 17 | The problems encountered with the notion of ‘ text ’ as the verbal record of a communicative act become a good deal more complex when we consider what is meant by spoken ‘ text ’ . |
| 18 | What is meant by political control of the police in a liberal democracy ? |
| 19 | Furthermore , what is meant by economic development has also changed . |
| 20 | He began on a note of defiance : " If what is meant by that is that the President of the Republic has personally taken the decisions which it was incumbent upon him to take , that is entirely correct . " |
| 21 | What is meant by that ? |
| 22 | As an introduction to refreshing reading and study skills , Philip Burnard , lecturer in the School of Nursing Studies at the University of Wales College of Medicine , describes what is meant by experiential and student centred learning . |
| 23 | In order to fully understand what is meant by Religious Education in the Catholic Secondary School it is necessary to refer to two other distinct , yet at times overlapping , concepts namely Evangelisation and Catechesis . |
| 24 | For any attempt to define what is meant by spiritual is easily killed in infancy by pointing out how ridiculous such an attempt is : the spiritual automatically transcends all possible categories and definitions . |
| 25 | The reduction of the concept of communication to comprehensible input , in association with the absence of any clear definition of what is meant by comprehensible or any criteria for knowing whether language has been comprehended or not , means that almost any approach to teaching can claim to have the blessing of the theory . |
| 26 | Learning is necessary ; but it is not part of what is meant by higher education . |
| 27 | It will use secondary analysis of an existing database , collected in a longitudinal study of social support and childbearing , to explore what is meant by social support , both in terms of family and social networks and from the point of view of the health and welfare services . |
| 28 | However opinions vary as to what is meant by social support , and how it can best be measured , although the extent to which an individual feels that they have someone to confide in appears to be important . |
| 29 | What is meant by informal organizations are those groupings which the employees themselves have developed in accordance with their own needs . |
| 30 | Er y your use of the phrase self containment leads me to ask the question , which is that , well in my book it does n't necessarily mean the same thing as an integrated and balanced community , but I 'll put Mr Davis on notice to define what is meant by those adjectives . |