Example sentences of "it mean that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This one-man effort had its advantages , for it meant that one mind was responsible for the training , rather like the method which our Lord followed with his disciples , or the Buddha with his . |
| 2 | To my great surprise and that of everyone else , I found that it meant that black holes are not completely black . |
| 3 | It meant that colonial administrations had an extremely difficult time controlling these peoples . |
| 4 | It meant that that summer , despite the pressure of finals , I was able to enjoy human company and gain succour from it , in a way that had previously been denied to me . |
| 5 | Since Ferdinand 's instructions to the Junta of Government ( which he left in Madrid to govern while he was at Bayonne ) were to cultivate French friendship at all costs , and since these counsels were not modified until after the outbreak of a popular rising , it meant that official Spain could not take the leadership of the instinctive movement against France . |
| 6 | It meant that major strikes almost invariably began from the bottom up and were largely outside the control of the unions . |
| 7 | No two boys and a girl , so it meant that two boys have to share a bedroom which they were n't doing in that other house and David 's been unemployed well |
| 8 | The Clause was wrong if it meant schools could not have proper and adequate discussion , but if it meant that local authorities should not promote homosexuality then Mr Roberts would support it . |
| 9 | The Court of Appeal doubted the validity of trespass ab initio , as it meant that lawful acts could be made unlawful by subsequent events and the lawfulness of an act should be judged at the time it took place . |
| 10 | 160 to the end of the second century , and it meant that these defences could not possibly have been erected before AD 160 . |
| 11 | It meant that those figures were properly housed , but it was also a clear sign that the defeated gods were henceforth under the authority of their own gods , and the defeated people under their thumb . |
| 12 | While this was a huge boost to such manufacturers as Acorn and Research Machines , it meant that British schools still found themselves committed to relatively basic , 8-bit technology at a time when the rest of Europe was establishing a base of more powerful 16-bit MS-DOS technology . |
| 13 | It could not prevent conflict and the outbreak of armed clashes between England and France , but it meant that considerable efforts were made , on both sides , to avert disputes or to seek a speedy reconciliation . |
| 14 | In co-evolution terms it means that herbivorous dinosaurs may have grown large as a means of attaining thermal stability . |
| 15 | For example , when you talk of , imperialism , when you look at , when we , we 've study it from a , erm , quite a few , so it means that that capitalism supply |
| 16 | When records are filed under this system it means that all documents relating to the subject are brought together under one heading , for example : |
| 17 | This latter point is all-important for it means that political considerations are not relevant to the decision which is , of course , primarily concerned with air safety . |
| 18 | It means that young people , instead of staying in their home town or village , have to stay with their friends or relatives or move to bigger places like Newcastle or Gateshead and that means more people on the waiting list . ’ |
| 19 | I do n't believe it was a coincidence , and if it was n't — ’ he had finally sorted it out — ‘ if it was n't then it means that Sardinian shepherds dressed themselves up as Sardinian shepherds to do a kidnapping . |
| 20 | Some firms that make TV sets like the idea of the tree and branch system because it means that profitable electronics must be built into the receivers which they sell . |
| 21 | Rather , it means that socioeconomic processes are themselves uneven , increasing the disparities in preexisting social and natural systems . |
| 22 | In turn it means that adaptive evolution may be faster than biologists had thought . |
| 23 | It means that each customer is visited at least once and the large ones perhaps two or three times during the period . |
| 24 | If we print all this area from within a rubberband box , as we have been doing , it means that four sections of the printout will make up the width of the design and the height will need the total height of squares used for the design , divided by 38 . |
| 25 | With a squad of 16 it means that five players spend a majority of their time watching . |
| 26 | It means that greater detail is possible , for instance on little figures and for decorative patterns . |
| 27 | However , if the yield does fall on equity-based PEPs , it means that other investments , such as gilts and building society deposits will become more competitive . |
| 28 | It means that this type of analysis lights upon a particular aspect of social life and social change ( and an aspect of life with which Chicagoans were immediately concerned in the 1920s ) without attending to what Castells or a structuralist Marxist would see as the principal underlying processes affecting people 's lives , especially economic processes and those related to the social relations of production . |
| 29 | It means that vital decisions have to be made quickly at an extremely difficult time for the mother , decisions which may have to be made from an ill-informed base . |
| 30 | If it is thought that it means that any decision should be taken at the lowest possible level , that unfortunately makes me believe that the concept is not all that it is cracked up to be , and for a number of reasons . |