Example sentences of "[det] mean that a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | This meant that a lot of the interchange would be verbal with no record or a remembered , inaccurate record . |
| 8 | This meant that a condition for the exercise of the power was that the land was of the appropriate type . |
| 9 | This means that a word mask should reduce the word-superiority effect in comparison with a feature mask ; and Johnston and McClelland ( 1980 ) showed that this was the case . |
| 10 | Sperber and Wilson 's ( 1986 ) principle of relevance entitles the hearer to expect adequate contextual effects for the minimum necessary processing effort.5 This means that a speaker who is asked to say what , for example , was said in a lecture would not satisfy the principle of relevance if he or she read out the entire content word for word . |
| 11 | This means that a management policy that is injurious to employee interests can be attacked only on the grounds that the directors lacked good faith , meaning that the directors did not honestly believe that the policy constitutes an appropriate balancing of interests , or that they have altogether disregarded the impact of their decision on the employees . |
| 12 | This means that a man sacrifices every other aspect of himself to the job and forgets his other roles , such as father , son , brother , friend and lover , and also forgets that in his teens , perhaps , he liked playing the piano , going to football matches , singing in the choir and writing short stories . |
| 13 | This means that a company with a financial year end of 28 February will be required to file its accounts by 28 September if it is a public company , and by 28 December if it is private . |
| 14 | This means that a decision must be taken on whether the in-use setting can be recreated in the studio or whether the photography should be done on location . |
| 15 | Spelt out slightly more fully ( and at the risk of oversimplification ) , this means that a decision is open to review where it has been arrived at as a result of a mistaken view of the law , or where the decision is one that could not reasonably have been arrived at , in the sense that the person deciding must have taken into account irrelevant considerations , or failed to take into account relevant ones , or where he has failed to observe the dictates of natural justice which require him to give the parties a hearing before arriving at his decision . |
| 16 | This means that a proposal must be circulated among various sections and departments that will be affected by the proposal , with much discussion and correction ensuing . |
| 17 | This means that a child acquiring language who does not yet know what chair means but will acquire the knowledge must already have represented in his ‘ language of thought ’ a predicate of the kind ‘ is a portable seat for one ’ . |
| 18 | This means that a child who is exposed to violent models may be less inclined to halt or inhibit aggressive actions when given the opportunity . |
| 19 | In a medical-legal context this means that a person 's right to self-determination , to deal with his body as he sees fit , is protected by law . |
| 20 | But this means that a person is not in a specially authoritative position to tell us what he believes , expects , and so on . |
| 21 | This means that a screenful of information is provided by 307,200 illuminated dots . |
| 22 | This means that a screenful of PAL television is represented by roughly half a million dots . |
| 23 | This means that a catenary can be obtained by plotting the values of hyperbolic cosines obtained from tables . |
| 24 | This means that a disposal of shares in Target by Newco would realise a gain . |
| 25 | This means that a sailor who is lost at sea can tell which lighthouse he is looking at by simply counting the . |
| 26 | This means that a patio of ample size will be needed , which could use a combination of pre-cast slabs and new brick paving , or , of you are lucky , some old bricks that may have been in the garden already . |
| 27 | This means that a premium paid during a tax year is treated as if it had been paid during the previous tax year ; or the tax year before that , if there were no relevant earnings in the previous year . |
| 28 | This means that a policy of increasing government spending but maintaining a balanced budget will have a net expansionary effect on the economy . |
| 29 | This means that a search may retrieve items which are indexed under only some of the terms in the search , although any records containing all the terms are output first and described as " matching your search closely . " |
| 30 | As SSC has only consultative , not decision-making status , this means that a recommendation will go to F&S not from SSC as a whole but from the Board members who sit on both SSC and F&S , and . |