Example sentences of "would mean " in BNC.

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1 This would mean containing within their state one million persons to whom such a national identity would be totally antithetical .
2 It would mean a reduced workload for you so I honestly ca n't see why you 're so set against the idea . ’
3 This would mean that the patient is heavily reliant on assembled phonology .
4 Foreign influence over major US airlines would mean ‘ this framework would be radically altered , ’ he said .
5 Fortunately for Hammersmith and its citizens , legal advisers for all parties concerned have been unequivocal , all suggesting a defeat for the council , which would mean Hammersmith would not have to pay the losses on the transactions .
6 Leaders of the Association of University Teachers , representing university lecturers , are recommending a claim which would mean a 27 per cent pay increase for its 30,100 members .
7 A prime example of this is the genuine difficulty any Pope would have in recognising that Anglican priests are real priests since this would mean that when Pope Leo XIII declared in 1896 that Anglican orders were ‘ utterly null and void ’ , he was either silly or wrong or both .
8 Proposing the resolution , Mr Kent said it would mean a cut of at least £5bn — a quarter of this year 's defence budget .
9 The budget cuts would mean significant delays in 1990 production of missiles , a handful of which are due to be sold to Britain .
10 The Moroccan said that athletes might still take drugs if they thought being caught would mean only a temporary ban .
11 Refuting the argument that proportional representation would mean trimming to minority centrist positions , Robin Cooke , one of Labour 's leading advocates of reform , said : ‘ We have already gone to endless lengths to placate the centre ground . ’
12 Rodney Bickerstaffe , general secretary of the public employees ' union Nupe , said that local management of schools , giving schools control over their own budgets would mean less money for education .
13 Jimmy Knapp , left-wing leader of the National union of Railwaymen believes that his members had a ‘ genuine ’ interest in the miners ' strike because pit closures would mean fewer coal trains .
14 The anticipated increase in rates to 14.75 per cent would mean a hike of 95p per thousand pounds borrowed without the benefit of income tax relief .
15 That would mean overcoming shortcomings in the democratic answerability of the EC institutions by making the the Commission ‘ more strong and more effective ’ .
16 Such a move would mean a fundamental change in how information is gathered and acted upon .
17 During the debate Roy Hattersley , the deputy leader , argued that it would be ‘ historic folly ’ for Labour to back proportional representation ; inevitable coalitions would mean that ‘ we would never again have a Labour government that was able to carry out a Labour programme ’ .
18 TO DENY the spirit of opera would mean to deny the development of the human spirit ; indeed of human thought' .
19 Going though another stage would mean a loss of control . ’
20 The ‘ rolling programme ’ approach would mean creating an enlarged and more representative executive , fed by policy commissions of up to 100 members .
21 ‘ Imagine what it would mean to Britain if you had a player in Manchester and a player in Liverpool who won Wimbledon and the US Open , ’ he said , boggling the mind .
22 Failure to do so , he warned , would mean surrendering 25 per cent of the European car market to Japanese companies by the mid-1990s .
23 The Commission calculates , moreover , that the job of cross-checking between the customs departments of each member state into the validity of traders ' declarations would mean an exchange in electronic mail between them of about 20,000 million characters a year .
24 A further problem is that a BAe takeover would strengthen German objections to Ferranti winning the radar contract for the European Fighter Aircraft since it would mean BAe gaining a disproportionately large share of the total project .
25 ‘ That would mean the Conservatives losing over 1.5 million voters at the next election and many marginal seats would go with them . ’
26 On those grounds , a 4 per cent decline since the last base rate increase , last week , would mean trigger points of around DM2.90 and $1.54 .
27 Diplomats said Washington was reluctant to offer any formula in writing because this would mean taking sides .
28 That would mean a cut of £5bn , Mr King said — roughly the same as the annual cost of the Royal Navy .
29 Home Office figures showed plans to lengthen the time before a prisoner became eligible for parole and to introduce longer parole periods would mean the prison poulation could expand by between 4,000 and 5,000 .
30 Even now , a year before the deciding vote , he does not believe that sport here understands what getting the Games would mean .
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