Example sentences of "[noun sg] meant that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Kenya administrators also discovered the ‘ importance and usefulness of [ cattle ] sales as a meeting place for the transaction of official business ’ , but except in wartime , when the army needed meat , veterinary quarantines imposed in response to pressure from representatives of the European livestock industry meant that such sales were not a prominent feature of life in Kenya Masai District . |
| 3 | The increasing availability of liver transplantation during the course of the study meant that some individuals became eligible for this procedure . |
| 4 | Popular suffrage meant that rival factions would shout for their own candidate . |
| 5 | The result meant that both parties failed to capitalise on the widespread disaffection with the mainstream parties and in particular with the ruling Socialist Party ( PS ) which had been discovered in recent months to have been involved in a number of scandals . |
| 6 | It was a dismal , disorganized weekend and a waste of valuable opportunity ; everything was left to ‘ flow ’ , which in practice meant that many events did not even get off the ground . |
| 7 | Moreover , the weakness of the remanent magnetism contained within volcanic rocks together with various sources of error meant that large numbers of individual measurements had to be averaged in order to provide a reasonably precise estimate of past continental positions . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The mise-en-scène showed a sad confusion , too , between a coup de theéâtre and a mere coup de tête : over-emphatic projection meant that each piece was ejaculated with the abruptness — but neither the insouciance nor the demotic wit — of the slices in Morecambe and Wise 's justly celebrated performance , The Stripper . |
| 10 | It may be that growing wealth meant that more people came to have access to modern contraceptive techniques . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Table 3 , below , shows that although the limited duration of the present Call-slip analysis exercise meant that fewer issues were monitored in 1981 than in earlier years , the proportion of all issues which were in foreign languages remained remarkably constant , at around 4% . |
| 13 | The programme of trials and different phasings for entry into local management meant that some schools were well to the fore and were able to demonstrate both the advantages and drawbacks of early thinking on the part of central and local government . |
| 14 | However , the expansion of the universe meant that this light should be so greatly red-shifted that it would appear to us now as microwave radiation . |
| 15 | Notwithstanding Clinton 's protestations , the agonies suffered over the issue of draft evasion by Dan Quayle as vice-presidential candidate during the 1988 campaign meant that many Republicans seized upon the allegations against Clinton with undisguised delight . |
| 16 | The requirements of negotiating procedures and national security meant that full glasnost was not possible in foreign policy , but wider discussion was essential . |
| 17 | It is true that the elections resulted in a House fairly evenly balanced between the two parties , but the fact that the elections came to be fought over the issue of the Church in Danger meant that those Tories who were returned were in no mood for compromise , with the result that the new House proved extremely difficult for the ministry to manage . |
| 18 | He identified his main recruiting problem as this : the relatively small number of companies in the confectionery business meant that certain search firms would have to declare that certain specific potential hunting-grounds were off-limits , and this restricted his choice of headhunter . |
| 19 | The 386NX has a multi-voltage charger/power supply , which with the addition of a US-style power lead meant that this notebook can be charged almost everywhere . |
| 20 | In Jim Smith 's presentation on Wednesday morning — AR Division Present and Future — he said that diversification of distribution meant that Scottish Amicable had changed with the times and was not risking all in relying on one source of business . |
| 21 | A full four-hander meant that two girls dressed as policewomen would go into the pub , locate the victim and intimidate him in front of his office cronies , then start taking their clothes off . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Japan 's incorporation into the American sphere of influence , her military weakness , her lack of diplomatic room for manoeuvre and her concentration on domestic rebuilding for some twenty years after the war meant that major changes or developments in Japan 's relations with the West were infrequently the result of positive action on the part of Japan . |
| 26 | According to the quarterly Wall Street Journal Europe-Dataquest Europe Ltd report on the market , sales of personal computers rose 19.4% to 2.5m machines , just shy of the 20.8% rise in the fourth quarter of 1992 — but volume ai n't all , and the price war meant that total industry revenue slipped 3.3% to $5,100m . |
| 27 | A greater gross national product meant that local authorities could be more generous towards the poor . |
| 28 | The publishing explosion of the mid-century meant that scientific books were sprinkled with detailed illustrations done in this way . |
| 29 | The theory of natural selection meant that natural species could be explained in terms of the conditions necessary for their survival , and it seemed a small further step to explaining human social systems in such terms ; that is , in terms of the ways by which human beings gained their livelihood and reproduced . |
| 30 | The shifting , nomadic way of life of the primeval hunter-gatherers , along with their inability to store food and their elementary level of technological development meant that rough egalitarianism and fluid relations of superordination and subordination characterized their way of life . |