Example sentences of "[adj] mean that [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well in in general er the original work plan had divided up the production work to share out the technology and this meant that components were being shipped around more than actually they they needed to be or that was economic and it was found that there was the potential to concentrate manufacturers sub-assemblies for each of the major components of the aircraft and subsequently assemble the major components in one country rather than several . |
| 2 | In two instances in her small study , this meant that mothers effectively were caring for a baby instead of their daughter ( Cornwell , 1984 , pp. 86–90 ) . |
| 3 | The role of women in the English Civil Wars is interesting , because the fact that nearly everyone in the country took sides either for Parliament or for the King , and all able-bodied men would be recruited and this meant that women were left without protection , and had to survive somehow . |
| 4 | This meant that discharges had been less diluted . |
| 5 | This meant that farmers were more tied to their farms than in most other European countries . |
| 6 | This meant that pensions were not regarded as a right but were dependent on the establishment of eligibility through contributions or ‘ work-testing ’ . |
| 7 | This meant that concepts and ideas had continually to be tested against specific problems confronted in particular situations . |
| 8 | This meant that changes in crime rates , or variations between different settings ( such as urban and rural ) , which had played an important part in theories relating social or economic conditions and change to crime , could equally well be explained by variations in crime-recording practices . |
| 9 | This meant that cases were sent where , clearly , the D.P.P. |
| 10 | This meant that systems of kin terms often reflected , not the present state of affairs , but the previous one . |
| 11 | This meant that school-children taking ‘ O ’ and ‘ A ’ levels were not moved during this crucial time and so disruption to schooling did not present a major problem for parents . |
| 12 | In practice this meant that Ranters were identified with activities outside socially accepted boundaries , for example indulging in sexual licence , blasphemy and swearing . |
| 13 | This meant that sociologists have had to look more closely at the idea of ‘ skill ’ , at the kinds of skills which were being introduced , and at the effects of the Youth Training Scheme upon both the labour market and upon young people . |
| 14 | This meant that schools received standard sums as either Major or Minor awards , regardless of differences in the scale of need between schools in either category . |
| 15 | This meant that museums not only became progressively poorer , but also less in control of their purchasing policies . |
| 16 | This meant that children and parents shared few pursuits together , and the art of the seventeenth century would seem to bear this out . |
| 17 | Since diplomacy largely revolved around the family relationships of princely dynasties this meant that children had to expect to be betrothed early — and occasionally even married early . |
| 18 | This meant that characters acquired by the adult body could not be incorporated into the germ plasm and could not be inherited . |
| 19 | This meant that ideas and thought were not free and independent of the history of material relations : |
| 20 | None of this meant that diplomats were well paid , if the financial demands still often made on them by their position are considered . |
| 21 | This meant that issues to do with the representativeness of the sample drawn and interviewed were paramount since the objective was to gain an accurate estimate from the sample of the likely population characteristics . |
| 22 | This meant that details of the Governors ' procedures , which might seem unimportant to outsiders — such as whether they watched a contested programme in advance of its first transmission — sometimes had great symbolic importance for the broadcasters . |
| 23 | In our project this meant that measures of network strength that we used in the inner city could not be readily operationalized for these speakers . |
| 24 | Prior to the invention of photocopying machines , the preparation of an epitome of title in the way described above was not possible , and this meant that abstracts of title had to be created by our predecessors , who were in fact charged with the duty of tracing title back over 30 or 40 years or more . |
| 25 | This meant that wages fell sharply in the coal exporting districts of South Wales and the North East but remained the same in the new and expanding south Yorkshire coalfield , where new and deeper mines were producing high quality coal for the home market . |
| 26 | Landsbergis , meeting Gorbachev in Moscow at the latter 's request on June 26 , had been told that a moratorium would signal a return by Lithuania to its pre-March 11 status , and Landsbergis claimed that this meant that negotiations would formally be between the Soviet Union and one of its constituent republics . |
| 27 | This meant that couples who had married across the religious divide were not allowed to adopt at all . |
| 28 | Would this mean that children with special educational needs , whose chronological age had little relevance to their scholastic progress , would be publicly judged against certain criteria applied nationally to the whole ability range ? |
| 29 | Does this then mean that pupils will choose their options from some estimated grade or does this mean that schools will begin to set " mock " tests around option time ? |
| 30 | The vote also stops public buildings being used to promote field sports , so could this mean that books on hunting will vanish from the libraries . |