Example sentences of "[Wh det] mean " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the ‘ and 's ’ and ‘ or 's ’ and the more and more rarely irritate , and are triumphant in the great set-pieces which mean so much to all three books — like that palimpsest of faces in Addis Ababa . |
| 2 | The result is a townscape of ‘ terrible despairing cries ’ which mean , and mean more than , that the drunks are leaving the pubs between two and three o'clock in the morning , the pubs that reek of alcohol and cucumber and fish . |
| 3 | Igfets have strange characteristics , which mean that they are not much use at frequencies of below a few kilohertz . |
| 4 | Furthermore , Disney is assuming 60 per cent of these visitors will come from France , which mean 26 per cent of the company 's population will visit Eurodisney each year . |
| 5 | They divide viruses into the ‘ mostly harmless ’ which display messages , ‘ fatal distraction ’ which mean to display messages but accidentally cause loss of data or crash the computer , and ‘ information terrorist ’ which are designed to do harm . |
| 6 | Like the dietary laws , which mean that although we should enjoy our food we are limited to certain foods , we are encouraged to enjoy sex , but only in the context of a legal marriage and with certain constraints . |
| 7 | The standard SII Land Rover has 4.7:1 diffs which mean the pinion shaft of the differential turns 4.7 times ( as does the prop shaft . |
| 8 | Due to the sawing process , all slates are absolutely flat and of a very even and regular thickness , advantageous factors which mean the fixer does not have to sort the product on-site . |
| 9 | These are specially constructed to cope with astigmatic actresses such as myself and have two tiny lines on their edges which mean ‘ This way up ’ . |
| 10 | If such ventures encourage better design for older people , they will undoubtedly banish practices which are unhelpful to most people , whatever their age : power points on skirting boards , washing machines which make you bend double to get the washing out , videorecorder cabinets which mean crawling around on the floor to put on tapes — all three are candidates for design improvements . |
| 11 | The full-strength argument is that there are often substantial costs to employing someone which mean that a company might choose to employ a machine rather than a person even if that person 's wages cost them nothing . |
| 12 | So back they switch , to shorter repayment periods — which mean not merely higher monthly instalments but in this case very much higher APRs as well . |
| 13 | As the outcome bears no relation to either an efficient market or the declared aims of government policy , it sets up pressures for those who feel injured to seek political solutions , which mean greater government intervention and greater inefficiency — a treadmill with which I regret to say we are all too familiar in the United Kingdom . |
| 14 | You could make a very simple picture with pansies , which are generally translated as ‘ think of me ’ , or potentillas which mean ‘ beloved daughter ’ . |
| 15 | The desire to own property has been advanced by the Conservative government 's ‘ Right to Buy ’ scheme , but the moves towards home ownership have been accelerated by the benefits of mortgage interest tax relief and the absence of capital gains tax ( as discussed earlier in the chapter ) which mean that house purchase is perceived as being an attractive subsidised investment . |
| 16 | Like interviewees , interviewers can learn skills which mean they do n't have to resort to overt status games ( which the discriminating interviewee will sec through ) . |
| 17 | ‘ They have minimum interest rates which mean some people are paying four per cent more than they should , ’ he said yesterday . |
| 18 | At prices which mean exceptional value for money . |
| 19 | Considering the recent near-miraculous developments in fibre technology which mean that synthetic fabrics can now imitate everything from silk to rubber while they absorb sweat , change colour , fill in your tax returns and remix Michael Jackson singles , polyester and cotton ( at the cutting edge of style in about 1953 ) is an insult to our national game . |
| 20 | A third reason is the rise in water-quality standards , which mean more attention is paid to monitoring contamination in water supplies . |
| 21 | These differences , which mean that in comparing the present and the past we are not comparing like with like , are paralleled by changes in the composition of the population as a whole . |
| 22 | It has to do with short-term planning and public accounting systems , which mean that , although money can in theory be voted for projects over a number of years , in practice , it usually arrives in annual dribs and drabs . |
| 23 | There are primitive layers , even in modern Europeans who were then fighting the war , which mean that man has a capacity for brutality exceeding that of other animals . |
| 24 | Much discussion has focused on whether or not it is a general phenomenon , related to a ‘ natural ’ cycle of urban change that will in time affect all developed countries , or whether there are specific national and/or regional circumstances which mean different trajectories . |
| 25 | These differences in land values ( which mean higher rents or higher prices for land or houses ) provide the mechanism by which different groups are distributed throughout the urban area , often in the form of circles radiating out from the centre . |
| 26 | Such lexical chains need not necessarily consist of words which mean the same , however . |
| 27 | Performance measures which mean something to policemen are largely irrelevant in an enforcement system directed towards compliance . |
| 28 | King ( 1990 ) similarly suggests that topicalization , as evident in the use of expressions such as os pros , oson afora , and oso ya ( all of which mean something like ‘ as for ’ or ‘ with regards to ’ ) , is more common in Greek than in English and that Greek learners of English tend to overuse this structure . |
| 29 | The case for R&D agreements is partly that they avoid wasteful duplication of research , and allow complementary skills and risks to be pooled , but mainly that they internalize the information spillovers which mean that a single firm is unable to appropriate all the returns to its R&D efforts . |
| 30 | According to Mr Billington , the proposed changes in the law would ‘ effectively eviscerate ’ the US copyright registration system and remove the statutory incentives which mean that the Library of Congress receives the free deposit copies to which it is entitled . |