Example sentences of "[adj] mean that [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To keep all his supporters in balance , Lloyd George had to offer something to all of them , but this meant that every coalition scheme was also hotly opposed by a part of the coalition . |
| 2 | This meant that a US-owned company paid less net taxes . |
| 3 | This meant that a decompression stop was not required and that these parameters would be stored in the memory , to be compensated for on the next dive . |
| 4 | This meant that a social worker would call regularly to check on their progress , and to make sure that everything was all right . |
| 5 | This meant that a trust investing solely in , say , gilts or bonds could qualify for the £1,500 limit , which was not the original intention . |
| 6 | This meant that a man 's estate was increasingly likely to be divided between his wife ( if she survived him ) and his children , although not necessarily in equal measure . |
| 7 | Prior to that time retirement ages for men and women were the same , and this meant that a man retiring at 65 often had to support himself and his wife on a single-rate pension , because on average women were younger than their husbands . |
| 8 | In practical terms this meant that a court should not lightly disregard foreign blocking statutes or ‘ defensive laws ’ ; that perceived national interests should be carefully defined and weighed , so that some delay might well be accepted in the interest of promoting respect for the sovereign equality of States under international law ; and that evidence of the willingness of the foreign state to assist United States courts ( e.g. by a civil law country enacting legislation to enable cross-examination to take place ) should be taken into account . |
| 9 | Given the value of horses and armour this meant that a landless younger son could win fortune as well as fame if he became a tournament champion . |
| 10 | This meant that a condition for the exercise of the power was that the land was of the appropriate type . |
| 11 | This meant that a large part of the lesson time was wasted getting on buses and to and from the slopes instead of learning to ski and also a lot of walking around in boots and carrying skis . |
| 12 | In practice , this meant that a polytechnic or college of higher education could obtain a 100 per cent grant for that proportion of the establishment 's work which fell within the definition of ‘ poolable advanced further education ’ as agreed by local authorities . |
| 13 | This meant that a high proportion of the manpower of many European navies was available in time of peace for use in the civilian economy . |
| 14 | This meant that a " yes " vote was cast by just over 61 per cent of registered electors , and around 56 per cent of all Soviet citizens of voting age . |
| 15 | This meant that a lot of the interchange would be verbal with no record or a remembered , inaccurate record . |
| 16 | But in R. v. Secretary of State for the Environment ex parte Rose Theatre Trust when the Minister decided not to make an order protecting the site of an Elizabethan theatre , a company of interested individuals was denied the right to challenge this decision , even though this meant that no one was in a position to do so . |
| 17 | This meant that the gliders were then parked the wrong way and , being light , they often blew over . |
| 18 | I once asked a colleague in linguistics if this meant that the criticism of , oh , Addison , Keats , Hopkins , Forster , was valueless . |
| 19 | This meant that the localities were overstaffed with poorly paid semiliterates at the receiving end of an ever-growing mountain of paperwork from the hyperactive guberniia towns and from Moscow . |
| 20 | This meant that the cities which ultimately grew up within this rural society were of a different character from the surrounding countryside . |
| 21 | This meant that the new ‘ natural philosophy ’ stood in need , not merely of practical development , but also of intellectual justification and explanation . |
| 22 | Inevitably this meant that the tax-credit system proposed by the Heath Government was not on the agenda and nor were some of the more ambitious income-guarantee schemes which inevitably required reform of taxation and social security being taken together . |
| 23 | This meant that the views of David Lloyd George carried little political weight within the Liberal Party , and thus within the country . |
| 24 | This meant that the guest lists had to be scrutinized with great care and it required considerable awareness on the part of Eugénie to be able to decide who would match with whom . |
| 25 | This meant that the entire route was prohibited and there was little scope , as in Dungannon , to march peacefully to a token , non-violent confrontation with the police . |
| 26 | This meant that the clinics were run , in the main , by trained medical officers whose special interest and expertise could be concentrated on the sexually transmitted diseases . |
| 27 | This meant that the jury must have accepted the defence in relation to one charge but not in relation to the other . |
| 28 | This meant that the magma that fed the fissures of the second phase was almost completely de-gassed , hence its quiet emission . |
| 29 | This meant that the banks were accepting the exchange risk on these loans . |
| 30 | All this meant that the tradition of ‘ visiting ’ remained inherent in the new welfare provision for young people . |