Example sentences of "mean [that] [noun] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Economies of scale mean that size does still matter : to succeed , companies have to grow while constantly guarding against building the sclerotic bureaucracy that bolsters a sense of infallibility that was IBM 's ultimate downfall . |
| 2 | I mean that Christianity proclaims there to have been a revelation of God in history . |
| 3 | The various levels of technology employed also mean that workers have very different skills and qualifications . |
| 4 | Does the knowledge that an experiment is taking place , even if they do not fully understand what it is about , mean that people behave differently from usual ? |
| 5 | It added : ‘ It would be a tragedy if the frustrations and the hardships that the recession has caused , and for some it is still causing , if it meant that Britain threw away all the achievements of the last decade . |
| 6 | The completed cross-cut now meant that water needed only to be lifted to the level and allowed to run out to day . |
| 7 | Problems with a flaked bone in his foot , a broken toe and then hamstring and rib injuries meant that McLeish played only seven times for Aberdeen last season and also missed the first 11 matches of this one . |
| 8 | This fact meant that Danzigers had far more opportunity to mull over Nazi propaganda and assess for themselves the extent of the Polish , Communist and Jewish ‘ threats ’ . |
| 9 | The rapid expansion of enrolments , teacher numbers and the volume of materials and support services meant that budgets grew very rapidly . |
| 10 | Every day she spent in the dungeon meant that fitzAlan came closer . |
| 11 | The work continued under another architect , but the death of Marino , combined with the vast expense of the building together with the losses his surviving family also suffered at the hands of the new Spanish governors , meant that work stopped altogether for many years . |
| 12 | This meant that wages fell sharply in the coal exporting districts of South Wales and the North East but remained the same in the new and expanding south Yorkshire coalfield , where new and deeper mines were producing high quality coal for the home market . |
| 13 | Changes over the course of 250 years meant that realities accorded less and less with formal appearances and official regulations . |
| 14 | The Senate 's decision meant that Durenberger became only the ninth member to be so censured , and the first since 1979 . |
| 15 | After receiving the news of the defections , which meant that Labour had only 59 assured seats , against Likud 's 60 , Peres managed to secure an adjournment of the Knesset without taking a vote . |
| 16 | The upsurge in traffic in the 1980s has alas meant that passengers have often had to stand in the centre aisles , in the lobbies , and around the door vestibules . |
| 17 | Does that mean that Anna has actually slept in that too ? |
| 18 | This does not mean that people become more honest as they grow older . |
| 19 | The popularity of road transport has meant that railways have either had short shrift , as in Britain , where investment per kilometre is about one-third that in France , or have had to be heavily subsidized , as in France and Germany . |
| 20 | The high targets set by the government have meant that colonies have often been badly located , and inadequately supported . |
| 21 | The remoteness of the county must always have meant that kings remained particularly dependent on local good will . |
| 22 | The remoteness of the county must always have meant that kings remained particularly dependent on local good will . |
| 23 | All of which means that Shorts require just three points from their final match of the season to clinch the championship . |
| 24 | Task allocation also means that nurses become very familiar with doing particular procedures , even though they may not give much thought to why they are doing something . |
| 25 | An exhausting schedule of appointments means that ministers have too little time to think . |
| 26 | Many now have a pause button which allows you to avoid these irritations and means that play starts again immediately you release pause . |
| 27 | The replacement of mainframe use by desktop computing in recent years means that scholars working alone do not have as much contact with computer-learned people as they used to do . |
| 28 | If operating the market entails transaction costs , it is even clearer that establishing it entails implementation costs , although the difficulty of identifying and quantifying them means that estimates vary widely . |
| 29 | In the case of light , therefore , this means that stars moving away from us will have their spectra shifted toward the red end of the spectrum ( red-shifted ) and those moving toward us will have their spectra blue-shifted . |
| 30 | Whether this means that life originated just once , or that it originated many times , each origin acquiring a different code , but that one origin gave rise to more successful competitors , we do not know . |