Example sentences of "mean [that] [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By this I mean that both the designer and colleagues may be too expert , too sophisticated , too used to jargon , too well-educated and able to verbalize . |
| 2 | A telephone failure at Eyemouth as a result of severe conditions meant that neither the coxswain nor second coxswain could be alerted , so the un-named 44ft Waveney class lifeboat 44–001 on relief duty at the station set out with the assistant mechanic , James Dougal , at the helm . |
| 3 | For example , a decision after the competing pair of hypotheses so a/sew a would mean that only the path so a was available by the time the competing pair seem/seam was processed . |
| 4 | Delusion is possible for everyone : feeling certain does not mean that therefore the world is as we think it is . |
| 5 | Originally it catered for pupils from 5 to 16 , but local reorganisation means that eventually the school will only accommodate children of secondary school age . |
| 6 | It means that neither the magnitude nor the position of the charge varies as a function of time . |
| 7 | With respect to the reason for Molla Fenari 's going on the pilgrimage , he writes that an invasion of Edirne and its environs by the combined forces of Seyh Bedreddin and Duzme Mustafa led Molla Fenari to seek permission to go on the pilgrimage , though it is not clear whether Husameddin means that simply the fact of the invasion or that Molla Fenari 's supposed complicity with Seyh Bedreddin led him to decide to " remove himself from the scene : in any case both the circumstances and the chronology of events in the period are too uncertain to allow one to evaluate the argument properly . |
| 8 | ‘ which was not fitted ’ This point means that either the motor vehicle in question had no horn fitted at all or that the one that was fitted did not conform to the requirements of the next point . |
| 9 | That means that both the nature and the significance of the test must be explained to you beforehand , in a way which you can understand . |
| 10 | At the beginning of this year the Louvre became an établissement public administratif , which means that henceforth the director of the museum will also be solely responsible for the whole establishment , which will also have greater financial autonomy . |
| 11 | We are running this in the off season , which means that only the Park Department is running motorized rigs and that there are only 25 launches a day . |
| 12 | Also , this electronic method of cooking means that only the pan is heated , and the moment it is removed from the hob , energy consumption stops . |
| 13 | Document signed … ’ means that only the signature itself is the hand of the king . |
| 14 | I use it in what I take to be its essential sense , to mean that both the society as a whole and the system of government were organized on a principle of freedom of choice … |