Example sentences of "mean that [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This case is particularly well-suited to the purposes of the project since the complexity of the available scientific evidence and the global distribution of the rocks mean that practical decisions about what , where and how to study the Precambrian have not become routinised . |
| 2 | I mean that that couple of blokes |
| 3 | Jessica said : ‘ If you mean that old guff about the Orangemen . |
| 4 | Nondeterminism within the process , and the many choices open to the environment , mean that any mixture of these containing at least one of unc is possible . |
| 5 | As we will explain in the next section , the results of priming experiments like these mean that any model of the visual word-recognition system must incorporate a level of abstract letter recognition . |
| 6 | Yet the legacy of films like The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner , Billy Lair and King Rat mean that any appearance by Tom Courtenay is an event . |
| 7 | By open ended we mean that any number of customers , savers or subscribers can lend any volume of funds to the intermediary at any time . |
| 8 | ‘ If you mean that crummy flat of yours , no . ’ |
| 9 | The transfer of ILEA responsibilities to the council meant that future decisions around integration and children would be mainly the brief of the new Education Committee . |
| 10 | In other words , the rapid shift of populations through the zone of transition meant that primary forms of community and social control were collapsing . |
| 11 | But the scale of the tragedy exposed by Michael Buerk and his BBC camera crew , and the response it provoked in the no-bullshit , energetic , passionately caring rock musician Bob Geldof meant that old-world attitudes towards the plight of helpless peoples have been given the biggest jolt since the anti-slavery campaigns of the nineteenth century . |
| 12 | But the continuation of the Cold War and Europe 's reluctance to surrender American military protection , meant that substantial amounts of US military aid and large numbers of US troops became committed to the Continent on a permanent basis after the Korean War . |
| 13 | 1986 ) — meant that substantial numbers of children entered the care system in a dramatic , precipitate and probably traumatic way . |
| 14 | For instance access to the gall bladder was lost in one patient , a well described problem and the absence of a safety guide wire meant that greater care with the track had to be exercised . |
| 15 | The rapid growth of the secondary banking sector meant that unsatisfied demand for credit from the primary banks could be met by the secondary banks ; this sector not being subject to the liquidity ratio requirements . |
| 16 | The outbreak of the Great War meant that young men from Edenderry as well as from other parts of the Circuit went to serve their country ; some went directly from Portadown and others who had emigrated in earlier years joined the armies of the Dominions , especially Canada . |
| 17 | The complexity of nineteenth-century building meant that increasing numbers of men had to devote their lives to its study , by making architecture their livelihood . |
| 18 | Their plans under this law included : the introduction of protective custody without trial ; the introduction of a law to protect the NSDAP from libel , slander or defamation — which effectively meant that all criticism of the Party ran the risk of legal action ; and the curtailment of the rights of newspapers , editors and journalists . |
| 19 | Mr Patten said this meant that all releases of waste from large industrial processes would be considered together before a discharge licence was granted . |
| 20 | By the 19th century , European domination of the world meant that vast numbers of cultural and natural objects started to flow into the new museums of Europe . |
| 21 | This in essence meant that one digit in a sequence ( usually 9 or Z ) was used solely for the purpose of continuing that sequence further if new editions needed to be made . |
| 22 | The inexorable course of this colonial war meant that many people in France , especially within the army , were not prepared to entertain anything that entailed France giving up military sovereignty . |
| 23 | The very capaciousness of the idea of proper order as well as the changing dialectical requirements of controversy meant that absolute agreement on fundamentals was unnecessary . |
| 24 | Muscles stretching from the brain-case controlled a sideways-moving hinge , which meant that each side of the upper jaw could rotate outwards as the jaws closed . |
| 25 | Khadafi 's alleged production of chemical weapons and alleged support of international terrorist movements meant that diplomatic relations with the United States remained deadlocked . |
| 26 | The agreement meant that further contracts worth dollars 1,500 million , frozen during the dispute , could go ahead . |
| 27 | Thucydides wanted to give a wholly reliable account of the wars between Athens and Sparta ; and this meant that unverified assumptions about the past had to be excluded . ’ |
| 28 | The obvious lightness of the skeleton meant that this kind of existence for an air-breathing semi-aquatic animal would have been particularly inappropriate , because of the buoyancy of their air-filled bodies . |
| 29 | Shortages of labour in the immediate post-war period meant that this pattern of female industrial employment was not reversed overall , although it was in traditional basic industries , and any discussion of production post-1945 has to take account of a far larger North Shields female employed proletariat than had existed pre-War . |
| 30 | Factors such as location , journey to work , allocation and management policies , cost and personal preference meant that different types of households were accommodated in different housing forms ; predictably the low-income groups took the poorest quality housing ( Pooley and Irish , 1987 ) . |