Example sentences of "[adj] mean that [adj] [noun pl] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This meant that new buildings would often incorporate , for example , safety-oriented features such as computer-controlled fire alarm and sprinkler systems which not only reduced the risk of fire but , when fire did break out , ensured it was containable until the emergency services arrived . |
| 2 | The scientists were being cautious and so were the civil servants ; this meant that British politicians could happily continue to struggle over familiar issues until 1988 when a devastating drought enabled scientists in the USA to get the ear of the Senate and pour into it a story sufficiently sensational to alarm the rest of the Western world . |
| 3 | Does this mean that regulatory bodies will tend to be too conservative and will over-regulate the activities under their scrutiny ? |
| 4 | This means that total injections will also be autonomous so that when plotted against income on a graph , we have a horizontal straight line . |
| 5 | This means that total withdrawals will be directly related to income and when plotted against income on a graph will be an upward-sloping line with a slope equal to the sum of the marginal propensity to save and the marginal propensity to import . |
| 6 | This means that industrial designs must either fall within the design right or be registered as a design to be protected unless they are copies of artistic works ; for example , sculptures . |
| 7 | This means that new houses may cost a few hundred pounds more to build , but will need up to 20% less heating . |
| 8 | This means that new savers can join the trust at any time , and that existing savers can increase their holdings of units . |
| 9 | We are determined to see the earliest possible introduction of cable and this means that national requirements should be minimal . ’ |
| 10 | This means that different firms can adopt the same formal organisation trappings but still find themselves managing particular tasks in quite different ways . |
| 11 | This means that different genes will be read in the two daughter cells , and a kind of self-reinforcing divergence gets going . |
| 12 | If one supports the view that dogs need a degree of freedom of movement , the opportunity to meet other dogs and to engage in natural behaviour , then this means that responsible owners would be justified in taking them to places where they can be let off the lead and allowed to run loose . |
| 13 | That meant that social workers would collect the child from the foster parents and take her to a venue where the grandparents would be able to visit , said Mr Nott . |