Sentence 1: --Dimmer Than a 10 Watt Bulb

Sentence 2: It's half as bright as a 10 watt bulb.
Is this second sentence entailed by the first?

Answer: it is not possible to tell

Sentence 1: In some cases, this has resulted in changing the form of certain arrangements in order to meet the minimum technical requirements of any related accounting and reporting requirements while coming close to the line of what is legal.

Sentence 2: The minimum technical requirements have been abused in the past.
Is this second sentence entailed by the first?

Answer: it is not possible to tell

Sentence 1: He's always a nervous chap." 90 "His suggestion that his mother might have been poisoned accidentally by means of the tonic she was taking, that did not strike you as strange "hein?"

Sentence 2: He knows his mother was murdered.
Is this second sentence entailed by the first?

Answer:
no