Example sentences of "[adj] mean that [art] [noun] " 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 decompression stop was not required and that these parameters would be stored in the memory , to be compensated for on the next dive . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 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 | This meant that a lot of the interchange would be verbal with no record or a remembered , inaccurate record . |
| 9 | This meant that a condition for the exercise of the power was that the land was of the appropriate type . |
| 10 | This meant that the subject was developing in a specific type of state with a specific view of the main features of international society . |
| 11 | What was needed was a dispassionate focus on the root of the problem , and this meant that the subject had to lose its normative character . |
| 12 | This meant that the subject was Making Notes ; that it was the third draft ( for other drafts were lying about ) ; and that it was the tenth manuscript page of that draft . |
| 13 | At a regional level , this meant that the North West and West Midlands were particularly badly affected . |
| 14 | This meant that the scope for comparing establishment behaviour over time , which would provide some indication of whether there has been any increase in the use of temporary workers [ see Chapter 7 ] , was rather limited . |
| 15 | This meant that the couple were virtually never alone . |
| 16 | This meant that the stuff from the mine had to be reduced by stages to a coarse sand which was then processed to extract the copper ( and other minerals ) . |
| 17 | This meant that the Sutton monks would lose a large part of their income , and the four mile trek carrying the coffin was arduous , especially in bad weather . |
| 18 | This meant that the smog problem could only be solved in the short term if the Los Angeles County restricted motor vehicle use . |
| 19 | This meant that the views of David Lloyd George carried little political weight within the Liberal Party , and thus within the country . |
| 20 | This meant that the views of disabled people from the area were not taken into account and the informed opinion of the representative and organised voice of disabled people was not tapped . |
| 21 | This meant that the jury must have accepted the defence in relation to one charge but not in relation to the other . |
| 22 | This meant that the gliders were then parked the wrong way and , being light , they often blew over . |
| 23 | This meant that the cities which ultimately grew up within this rural society were of a different character from the surrounding countryside . |
| 24 | All this meant that the tradition of ‘ visiting ’ remained inherent in the new welfare provision for young people . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The government insisted that this meant that the ANC should also end recruitment and training , but the ANC asserted that it had the right to recruit inside South Africa for training abroad . |
| 27 | This meant that the flutes were full width at the base of the sphere , but taper down on the top . |
| 28 | I once asked a colleague in linguistics if this meant that the criticism of , oh , Addison , Keats , Hopkins , Forster , was valueless . |
| 29 | One of the judges , Lord Chief Justice Lawton , then inquired whether this meant that the Attorney General was entitled to consider the political trouble which would be caused by a decision to enforce a particular law . |
| 30 | This meant that the 5% to 10% cuts in ski length that people took were compensated by increases in width — the surface area stayed the same . |