Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] mean that [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In general , improper handling and failure to meet temperature , retention and cooling times meant that the end products were often not sterile . |
| 2 | Not every walking book of this kind means that the authors(s) have necessarily ventured along the walks depicted . |
| 3 | This rule means that a customer will generally be kept informed of his position . |
| 4 | But diesel engines are improving all the time , and developments like turbocharging and direct injection mean that the power gap between the two systems is shrinking . |
| 5 | Dietary fibre means that a food requires more chewing but it also requires more swallowing . |
| 6 | This point means that the stop line has been obliterated by mud , snow or rain etc. or has worn away . |
| 7 | ‘ Within the hearing or sight of a person ’ This point means that the offence must be near enough to another person(s) for it to be heard or seen . |
| 8 | This point means that the horn if not fitted would hardly be able to warn people . |
| 9 | Therefore , this point means that the tyre did not have a 1.6 mm depth of tread pattern grooves around the tyre in a continuous band situated in the central three-quarters of the width of the tread . |
| 10 | ‘ was in such condition , that danger was caused ’ This point means that the condition caused danger or in other words injured someone . |
| 11 | ‘ did cause wasteful employment of the police ’ This point means that the offender actually caused police time to be wasted in one of the three ways listed at point 4 , i.e. falsely reporting a possible offence , danger to a person(s) or property or that the reporter had material information . |
| 12 | ‘ did proceed across ( or along ) the carriageway ’ This point means that the pedestrian tried or succeeded in walking across the carriageway i.e. from footpath to footpath or along the carriageway in the same direction as the traffic flow . |
| 13 | Although there is actually little that is novel in ‘ sociobiology ’ , for the key elements have been in the air since the writings of Sir Ronald Fisher and J. B. S. Haldane , the extensive if not exhaustive application of population genetics to social evolution means that the relevance of evolutionary biology in the social sciences can no longer be ignored . |
| 14 | For Lévi-Strauss the search for universal structures meant that the issue of functional development could be put aside . |
| 15 | During the winter the pump should be removed in any event and this arrangement means that a pool heater can be conveniently installed in its place if desired . |
| 16 | But this arrangement means that the baby , when it first emerges from her genital opening has to make a marathon journey . |
| 17 | I do not consider that the fact that Parliament has legislated extensively in this area means that no principle of recovery at common law can or should at this stage of the development of the law be found to exist . |
| 18 | Generally the rest of this phrase means that the offence is committed if the vehicle or part of it proceeds past the traffic lights on the left or nearside of the approaching vehicle . |
| 19 | The mobility of vast sums of transnational capital means that the investment strategies of TNCs are crucial to , but largely beyond the control of , domestic economic policy , and hence that state autonomy is reduced . |
| 20 | This approach means that the task of establishing and maintaining control takes on a different form at the Delphi Centre ; the deliberate employment of ‘ control periods ’ . |
| 21 | A value of zero as in the case of Commercial Union means that the share is continuously traded . |
| 22 | First , the cognitive model which structures the mental space in terms of the schemas of BALANCE and LINKS admits of diverse more superficial realisations , for example the " financial-numerical " metaphors of the play , and this diversity means that a number of alternative image schemas could also arguably explain the patterning . |
| 23 | Does Mr Kohl 's greater public caution mean that the process of unification will be slowed ? |
| 24 | These rigorous tests mean that the Court of Appeal hears fresh evidence only rarely ; it will certainly need to be satisfied that the appeal is not being used merely as an attempt to argue the case in a different way . |
| 25 | Productions such as Oh , What a Lovely War offer many opportunities for voice and body training to be displayed effectively , particularly as the quick character sketches in this show mean that an actor may play several parts in one evening . |
| 26 | The absence of any form of cathartic end means that the play can not be classed as a ‘ tragedy ’ . |
| 27 | This doctrine means that a person can not question the validity of a piece of legislation through the courts . |
| 28 | This position means that a shadow is inevitably thrown on to the working surface . |
| 29 | This construction meant that the clause went beyond the protection of the goodwill of the employer 's business . |
| 30 | The truss rod is accessed from this end of the neck and so the fretboard extending in this way means that the truss rod is either neatly tucked away , or a pain to get to for adjustment 's sake , depending on how you view the situation . |