Example sentences of "[adj] mean that [art] [noun sg] " 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 smog problem could only be solved in the short term if the Los Angeles County restricted motor vehicle use . |
| 18 | This meant that the jury must have accepted the defence in relation to one charge but not in relation to the other . |
| 19 | All this meant that the tradition of ‘ visiting ’ remained inherent in the new welfare provision for young people . |
| 20 | I once asked a colleague in linguistics if this meant that the criticism of , oh , Addison , Keats , Hopkins , Forster , was valueless . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | This meant that the rotor could be used in heavy winds and should not compromise the ship 's safety . |
| 23 | Now this meant that the neutrality of Laos and Cambodia , er the main er route , the main supply route er from China , the , most of the weaponry incidentally came from the , the Soviet Union , China provided the facilities er so under no circumstances could the Americans intervene there , nor could they cross the demilitarized zone in force and erm invade North er Vietnam as they had done with North Korea previously . |
| 24 | Obviously this meant that the majority view of Lords Denning and Lawton in Spartan Steel & Alloys Ltd v. Martin & Co . |
| 25 | This meant that the film actor would be paired with Dr. Stephen Bonnard for the final . |
| 26 | This meant that the preparation of the Council would be in the hands of the ‘ museum-keepers ’ of the Roman curia . |
| 27 | this meant that the mercury was the first newspaper to be published outside those places . |
| 28 | This meant that the population in general was increasingly spared an irritating and resented burden ; but it also meant yet another hardening of the distinction between the soldier and those he defended . |
| 29 | Although this meant that the investigation required a further step to make the link with what was happening in practice , it also implied that the systemic information base would remain valid even if changes took place to the form of the actual information items . |
| 30 | Put into the social context of the late Middle Ages this meant that the class which had traditionally provided the leadership of armies was having its position , founded largely on social factors , questioned if not undermined . |