Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] means " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Z 1 and Z 2 are pure reactances , is real and since it follows that The solution to equation ( 9.13 ) implies that or which means that there is no reduction in amplitude through a section of the filter . |
| 2 | The task of the theist , as I see it in this book , is to define what he or she means by the word ‘ God ’ , and to give some evidence for believing that this Deity exists . |
| 3 | Whatever the uncertainty about whether God exists , the theist has a duty to be precise about what he or she means by ‘ God ’ . |
| 4 | It 's either the job or something means they 've got ta go away or they ca n't afford , they ca n't sell them so they I do n't know if that would make your income different if you were still paying a mortgage . |
| 5 | Whereas the hypocrite normally deceives other people 's vision of himself , making them see good where he means evil , Iago manages to transmit that doubleness into their vision of the rest of the world . |
| 6 | It has been pointed out that " unreasonableness " has been used in two ways in this area : ( a ) in an " umbrella " sense where it has been used as a synonym for abuse of power covering the various aspects of abuse of power already mentioned ; ( b ) in a substantive sense where it means manifest unreasonableness , a decision or exercise of power that is so unreasonable that no reasonable man would agree with it . |
| 7 | I 'm told that the work also occurs in the local exter dialect of the planet Milifinil-il , where it means ’ there is a smear of faeces below your fourth ventricle ’ . |
| 8 | I do n't , I do n't think he knows what the word love or anything means . |
| 9 | Such scepticism seems academic against the working assurance that everyone means the same by ‘ The bus is late ’ and ‘ It 's going to rain' . |
| 10 | Now if C 1 and C 2 represent total capacitances in parallel with R 1 and R 2 respectively , the ratio between the output and input potential difference phasors of this circuit as a function of the pulsatance ο is readily shown to be Consequently , if C 2 is adjusted such that which means that the time constants of the two parallel R-C combinations are the same , the potential difference division avoids phase shift , is given by equation ( 8.1 ) again and , in particular , is independent of frequency ! |
| 11 | That might sound like vanity but there 's no doubt that she means it ; she says she looks forward to sleep if she feels Bob might be part of her dreams . |
| 12 | It 's not that she means … ’ |
| 13 | ‘ That you Means the identity of the person using , causing or permitting the use of the motor vehicle . |
| 14 | Although one means of detachment from the world is a spiritual asceticism based upon a lack of material possessions , more common has been the desire to accumulate luxuries and objects which themselves signify the lack of any need to engage directly in productive labour . |
| 15 | Here it is important to see that the traditional category of plural is not symmetrically applied to first Person in the way it is to third : we does not mean plural speakers in the same way that they means more than one third person entity ( Lyons , 1968 : 277 ) . |
| 16 | As one man expressed it : ‘ When all 's said and done we have to get a product out and the management are interested in how cheap it can be done and although it means sacrificing the worker it means one has a cheap product . ’ |
| 17 | But unable to find the right person , Nikki has now decided to take the children with her , although it means uprooting them from home and friends . |
| 18 | But acting and all that it means is very much a doing thing , so the emphasis is always on practical work . |
| 19 | I want to submit that it means that we do not go to the world with a watertight message which demands ‘ take it or leave it ’ . |
| 20 | If the objection to a hatchback is that it means more noise in the cabin , the Safrane is an exception . |
| 21 | Sir Christopher Prout , the leader of the Conservative MEPs , claims that it means that the ‘ higher levels ’ of government ( e.g. the EC ) should be ‘ subsidiary ’ to the ‘ lower levels ’ ( the national governments ) , a topsy-turvy explanation if ever there was one . |
| 22 | It is to have failed to give the transcendence of God its proper cash value , to have weakened it so that it means something like ‘ outside the solar system ’ or ‘ above the galaxy ’ . |
| 23 | Now we see that it means planting new churches — this is an exciting project for the future . ’ |
| 24 | It was an answer that did not mean much to me then and I confess that it means very little to me today : it is not only a rather arid and pompous definition , which seems to drain the idea of God of imaginative life , but it also seems arrogant — even hubristic . |
| 25 | The problem is not primarily that is a hapax legomenon , for there can be little uncertainty that it means " something thin " ( from , " crush " ) . |
| 26 | One common conception of democracy is that it means " government by the people " or at least by the people 's elected representatives — since it is generally accepted , rightly or wrongly , that in large modern states the people themselves can not govern . |
| 27 | that it means that we 've got , there 's going to be er , a certain amount of extra staff though required , that 's what 's in in the report . |
| 28 | so you felt that and that pulse point there if you press on it hard enough you can actually stop the one in the wrist and of course that is controlling the flow of blood to the rest of the arm and you leave a pressure point closed off like that for no more than ten minutes , because if you left it on for too long that it means not sufficient blood 's getting to the rest of the , the limbs and the limb must have its blood supply , so you leave the pressure on for ten minutes and then release it , say for ten seconds just so say that the hand comes back pinkish again and if it 's not slowing down , back on with the pressure again for another ten minutes and that 's how you use it , tap off , ten minutes at the most , tap on for a little while , if it 's leaked again reapply , ten minutes at the most , tap on again , okay and that 's how you 'll control it , so if you do have a sit a situation where the bleeding was bad cos you 've got a , a limb severed , you could n't perhaps put sufficient direct pressure over that limb , this done , right , to control the bleeding then you could use indirect pressure , here , breaking or here , right in the , no playing now please , no trying to find this one right now , do this one tonight , in bed and the old lady said now what are you doing to me , never you mind , go to sleep |
| 29 | While this has coincided with a revival of interest in opera among the ‘ chattering classes ’ , I 'm not at all sure that it means a lot to the average person , except , simply , as dramatic music . |
| 30 | we can assume that it means the piano . |