Example sentences of "[adj] mean that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This meant that fund-raising news and any other news about the deaf was in the forefront of everyone 's attention . |
| 2 | This meant that each subject area covered , from economics through to emergency planning , always ended with several days of ordinary people getting up to have their say . |
| 3 | Because of its target-towing days in Sweden the rear cockpit was slightly non-standard , this meant that new perspex panels had to be manufactured to bring the rear cockpit back to Mk 1 configuration , the target cable guides on the tailplane were removed and the tailplane restored to standard fit . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This meant that used water was not directly plumbed into the outside drain but linked into the sink waste . |
| 6 | This meant that criminal laws were clarified and in some countries codified , as both Beccaria and Bentham advocated , but leaving a greater degree of flexibility and judicial discretion than either would have found congenial . |
| 7 | This meant that substantial building-up would be needed , to allow the water to escape . |
| 8 | This meant that reserve assets had to be at least 12½ per cent of eligible liabilities . |
| 9 | Mr Patten said this meant that all releases of waste from large industrial processes would be considered together before a discharge licence was granted . |
| 10 | He moved round the room — in so far as it was possible in such cramped quarters — glad to he relieved momentarily of desk work but perhaps by way of indicating that the interview must be conducted as if we were both on the move ; and this meant that certain remarks were addressed to the window or the mantelpiece . |
| 11 | None of this meant that American companies were no longer interested in financing British filmmakers or even British ideas , but they were no longer committed to doing so , and did n't expect to be sufficiently involved to justify keeping offices in London . |
| 12 | Thucydides wanted to give a wholly reliable account of the wars between Athens and Sparta ; and this meant that unverified assumptions about the past had to be excluded . ’ |
| 13 | This meant that most Liberals remained resolutely opposed to the idea that the Liberal Party had to change its policies to fit the new problems facing society . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | As the fashionable trade came in so more thought had to be given to subject-matter and to technique and in America this meant that short films had to be replaced or shown in conjunction with multiple-reel films as already pioneered by European film-makers . |
| 16 | This meant that any extraction procedure was much cleaner and more satisfactory : the mould might provide some tiresome debris , but at least the medium did not add the viscous remains of stale meat soup . |
| 17 | This meant that any statement that was not susceptible of testing was simply not scientific . |
| 18 | This meant that any Gascon appealing against the verdict of one of the sub-seneschals could not go directly to Paris . |
| 19 | This meant that these parties had equivalent subsidies from the Bundestag ( for staffing , etc. ) , but only restricted procedural rights , as compared with larger party groups . |
| 20 | This meant that some Christians followed Jesus as a Guru , others as a moral guerrilla leader and still others worshipped him as a perfect person . |
| 21 | This meant that fine tuning of the system in many areas , particularly on the personnel side , had to be held in abeyance until the payroll was running smoothly . |
| 22 | In particular , the rapid ossification of the Soviet hardline position in the East and the Cold War division which resulted from this meant that clear decisions had to be taken . |
| 23 | Does this mean that defining jobs and structures is a mistake ? |
| 24 | Does this mean that non-experimental data is useless for addressing causal issues ? |
| 25 | Does this mean that conventional ways are mistaken and should be abandoned ? |
| 26 | Does this mean that this story is not about faith , but faithlessness ? |
| 27 | So two questions need to be resolved on my analysis : first , is prevention ordinary treatment ? and , second , if preventive care depends on data drawn from special treatment , does this mean that special care may be undertaken only under conditions of limited , controlled research , which is what I suspect is what care of the VLBW baby really is , rather than by adopting the current haphazard approach which may wrongly dissipate resources ? |
| 28 | Does this mean that regulatory bodies will tend to be too conservative and will over-regulate the activities under their scrutiny ? |
| 29 | I think , in fact , if I 'm right about soaps becoming more conservative in this way , then does this mean that feminist arguments are no longer seen as relevant for a mass audience ? |
| 30 | This means that non-US residents are prepared to use the dollar in settlement of debts , as a unit of account and as a store of value . |