Example sentences of "[adj] mean [that] [adj] [noun sg] " 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 used water was not directly plumbed into the outside drain but linked into the sink waste . |
| 5 | This meant that substantial building-up would be needed , to allow the water to escape . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | This meant that any statement that was not susceptible of testing was simply not scientific . |
| 8 | This meant that any Gascon appealing against the verdict of one of the sub-seneschals could not go directly to Paris . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Does this mean that this story is not about faith , but faithlessness ? |
| 11 | 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 ? |
| 12 | Yet it is misleading to suggest that this means that legal authority depends on nothing more than the testator 's intention , whatever it may be . |
| 13 | This means that substantial control over work performance rests with employees themselves . |
| 14 | This means that total market turnover per day is now of the order of £4,400 million on average . |
| 15 | This means that general relativity can not predict what comes out of a singularity . |
| 16 | The first stage ( Bronze ) can be attained by any group of youngsters who are willing to work with enthusiasm , as assessment is on the basis of improvement on the standard of movement that the student starts from ; this means that due allowance is made , where appropriate , for individual physical handicaps . |
| 17 | This means that short-term interest rates on loans due to mature in a year tend to be generally lower than the long-term interest rate on loans of longer maturity . |
| 18 | This means that average household size in Great Britain fell from about 3.21 to about 2.56 persons over this period and this decline is expected to continue at least until to the end of the century ( Social Trends 10 , 1979 , Table 2.3 ; General Household Survey 1985 , 1987 , Table 3.11 ; Department of the Environment , 1986a ) . |
| 19 | This means that ancient man deliberately shaped his environment to make it represent a part of the cosmic whole , an access point into the world of the gods . |
| 20 | This means that resonant photoionization offers no particular advantages and photoelectron spectroscopy is best done using a monochromatic light source with more than sufficient energy to ionize the electrons of interest . |
| 21 | The lower-status group figures were again very much higher than those for the upper group ( 2.17 as against 0.91 , out of a possible 4.00 ) : this means that lower group speakers , on average , use the vernacular alternant for two or more of the four lexical items , even in word-list style — a surprising finding in terms of Labov 's predictions on contextual style . |
| 22 | This means that higher wind speeds must be sought — one reason for the choice of coastal and offshore sites . |
| 23 | This means that minimal training is necessary . |
| 24 | A note about effectiveness rates : where we say , for example , that a method is 98% effective — this means that each year , out of every 100 women using the method , 2 will become pregnant . |
| 25 | This means that each job is learned completely and thoroughly , but I could n't help thinking that a few musicians and/or luthiers at strategic points around the factory would n't go amiss — groundworkers who actually understand how a guitar works and who could spot problems from the playing perspective , rather than just the engineering view . |
| 26 | Some repetition of certain material does occur , however , in several chapters , although this means that each chapter may be read almost independently of the others . |
| 27 | This means that each adult Korean both male and female , must have been a member of eight organisations — which one must recognise as absurd . |
| 28 | This means that each polymer molecule will be surrounded by solvent molecules , and for N 2 polymer molecules |
| 29 | This means that many cylinder records surviving today have highly dubious provenances , as we shall see later . |
| 30 | This means that appropriate action can be taken to improve Scottish Amicable 's marketing strategy . |