Example sentences of "[adj] mean that [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Mr Patten said this meant that all releases of waste from large industrial processes would be considered together before a discharge licence was granted .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 This means that many mergers for which there have been no demonstrable advantages , but which have not been found to be overtly anti-competitive , have been allowed through , and thus contributed to the general increase in industrial concentration .
6 This means that many landowners who have sought Ministry Licences are vulnerable .
7 This means that all users must know which charge codes to use when they start to create new modules so that their modules can be stored against the correct charge code for their project .
8 This means that all users who may be affected by the SPR are notified of its existence via the Mail System , and that a particular user is nominated to respond to the SPR and informed of this responsibility via the Mail System .
9 This means that all remarks have to be addressed to the Chair .
10 This means that all combinations or configurations of emitted particles that have the same energy , angular momentum , and electric charge are equally probable .
11 This means that such extracts are protected provided the defendant can show that they were published in good faith and without malice .
12 And if our understanding of star formation is correct , then this means that most stars of the same size and density as our Sun will have planetary systems .
13 All this means that most critics never get to grips with masculinity 's perennial fascination .
14 In pence per record terms , this means that most bands receive a royalty of between 50p and 70p per album sold .
15 And as the numbers of people marrying did not significantly decline ( between 1871 and 1947 , of those who lived to 45/54 , 85–88 per cent were or had been married ) , this means that less babies were born per family .
16 Effectively this means that some students at least are initially anxious at the prospect of any language work with a grammatical focus which does not include a formalisation of the data and a description of the rules by the teacher .
17 Although in practice this means that some patients with chronic stable renal failure would have been referred for rapid investigation and diagnosis , we believe that this is preferable to taking a lower cut-off for carbamylated haemoglobin , such as 125 g VH/g Hb which would reduce sensitivity to 80% but increase specificity to 75% , since this would exclude some patients with a potentially reversible element to their renal failure that may not be so readily reversible if investigation and appropriate management were delayed .
18 Finally , if the referee brings both fists together in the middle of the chest , this means that both contestants scored at the same time , so no awards will be made .
19 Ya'kub and Fenarizade Zeyneddin , for example , rose from kasabat kadiliks to the kadiliks of Aleppo , and Damascus and Aleppo , respectively not long after the Ottoman conquest of those two cities ; but whether this means that these scholars ' careers represent exceptions to the rule or , on the other hand , that Aleppo and Damascus were not yet regarded as mevleviyets is not entirely clear .
20 This means that these devices actually allow pregnancies to begin and then abort them , a notion out of line with biblical concepts .
21 This means that any effects of the government debt may be neutralized by the appropriate combination of lump-sum taxes and transfers .
22 This means that fewer words need to be checked in the dictionary .
23 The segmentation of labour markets referred to in section 2.1 means that many groups of workers can be viewed as ‘ non-competing ’ groups .
24 These numbers are given in the histogram at the left , 1 meaning that a cell could only be activated through the contralateral eye , 7 that it could only be activated through the ipsilateral eye , and intermediate numbers indicating intermediate degrees of ocular dominance ; thus group 4 means that both eyes affected the neuron equally .
25 Does that mean that those motions should be ignored because we have not studied the subject matter in detail in the way that the Minister says he wants people to consider social security matters ?
26 Others use the term sub or proto-proletariat to mean that these members of the urban poor are in the process of becoming a working class , though they have not yet achieved this status .
27 If that means that all students are exempt , it would have been better if the Department of the Environment press releases had stated that expressly .
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