Example sentences of "[adj] mean [that] an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This meant that an innocent purchaser could buy a car from such a hirer only to discover at some later date that the car did not after all belong to him . |
| 2 | This meant that an individual book took longer to print than it might have done if all the workmen had concentrated on it alone ; but also that , by utilizing plant and labour less wastefully , all the books could be printed in less time altogether , and at less cost , than they would have been by serial production . |
| 3 | With syphilis and gonorrhoea , the ages are also recorded , and this means that an accurate map of disease prevalence can be drawn and any trends or changes can be recognized very quickly . |
| 4 | This means that an unlabelled headword in OED may , in the corresponding entry in Supplement , be labelled sb. if the Supplement has added a homonym that is a different part of speech . |
| 5 | This means that an individual quadrat may not necessarily contain all of the constants , although they are likely to occur nearby . |
| 6 | This means that an extra search will be added only for every additional ( 2n + 1 ) or ( 3n + 1 ) records , where n is the number of records per track . |
| 7 | This means that an average serving would contribute more than 16g of fibre to the diet , which is more than half the quantity that the average Briton consumes in a day on his fibre-depleted diet . |
| 8 | Answer guide : No mention of future benefits ; this means that an obsolete piece of equipment would be classified as an asset under this definition . |
| 9 | This means that an ambiguous word form set in a disambiguating context may well carry more information than can be accounted for in terms of interaction between the context-independent meaning of the word form , and the semantic properties of the context . |