Example sentences of "mean [that] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can sport retain an ethical base or will its involvement with television mean that it becomes completely dominated and determined by financial considerations ? |
| 2 | The fire was so small and mean that it gave no warmth at all . |
| 3 | By ‘ male-oriented ’ I mean that it exhibits a focus on , or a direction towards , the interests and activities of men in a gender-differentiated society . |
| 4 | It is no improvement merely to add a label , saying — taking an example at random — that left for Scotland yesterday morning is a verb phrase if by that we simply mean that it consists of a certain sequence of word classes recognized as frequently occurring . |
| 5 | No , I mean that it comes as a surprise when you first experience it , and then after that you ca n't change the course of events . |
| 6 | The special nature of the facts of the case mean that it has a very narrow reading and for this reason might amount to nothing more than an amalgam of common law duties not to be dishonest . |
| 7 | The disadvantages placed on the industry mean that it costs our farmers 5p a dozen more to produce eggs . |
| 8 | The very strength of the German Bildungsbürgertum meant that it served not only as ‘ organic intellectual ’ to the entire Bürgertum , but that it ( unlike in other countries ) was to be the hegemonic force imparting its own specific type of unity to the whole of the Bürgertum . |
| 9 | Firstly , the absence of any kind of derivative exchange in Germany meant that it lacked the financial culture to guarantee the successful operation of a one centre open outcry market . |
| 10 | To the last , Foucault himself remained suspicious of any ‘ progressive politics , if that meant that it continued to be linked to a ( hidden ) meaning , origin , or the subject . |
| 11 | But it was a universal grant , which meant that it went equally to the millionaire 's widow and to the widow who had very little . |
| 12 | At that time the presence of these pupils was seen as a problem , one that would very probably get worse before ( and most people predicted ) natural processes of assimilation and dispersal meant that it got better . |
| 13 | Its Durkheimian origin meant that it suffered at the outset from the more general problems of Durkheim 's functionalist approach . |
| 14 | On the credit side , the local base of the Poor Law meant that it operated in a face-to-face world where people and their problems were known . |
| 15 | The party of the workers fell in behind the policy of foreign bankers , which meant that it fell in behind high unemployment caused by high interest rates . |
| 16 | This qualification of support for the replacement of Friern and Claybury meant that it fell back upon regional officers , once again , to decide whether to go ahead with the initiative , or to abandon it . |
| 17 | Similarly , inadequate information about the siting of the jetty at Rothera meant that it had to be redesigned and repositioned at a relatively late stage , at an additional cost of £2 million . |
| 18 | The African colony to which he returned was regarded by the British government as ‘ advanced ’ — in African terms — which meant that it had made a start on the road to self-government ; however , the Colonial Office reckoned that the goal was still distant . |
| 19 | This result she attributed to the very short duration of persistence of the icon , which meant that it had faded before the cue could be utilised to sample selectively . |
| 20 | The fact that Follow Me was designed for broadcast meant that it had to do its own presentation , as it were , for home viewers . |
| 21 | There was silence , no regular chug-chug-chug of the working generator , which meant that it had to have stalled . |
| 22 | The book was an abstract of a work which had not appeared , and which never did in the form envisaged ; this meant that it had no references or bibliography , and that in it Darwin wore his immense learning lightly . |
| 23 | Essentially , this meant that it had to operate like a company , with a capital structure and a requirement to deliver a return on capital employed , but with the ownership wholly in the hands of the British Government . |
| 24 | Unfortunately , the nonresonant nature of the nonlinearity in this experiment meant that it had to compete with other nonlinear processes . |
| 25 | From its first meeting it was also identified with the anti-slavery movement and this meant that it did not establish itself in America , where many religious leaders were wary of too close an identification with such a divisive issue . |
| 26 | It was suggested that the extension of the period to three years from one required the attribution of a different meaning because the Theophile construction meant that it did not really matter what the period was ; as long as there was a debt , a bankruptcy petition could be presented . |
| 27 | The accord had been passed by the federal House of Commons in 1988 , but its failure to achieve ratification by all 10 provinces by June 23 , 1990 , meant that it collapsed [ see pp. 37519-20 ] . |
| 28 | Although it was relatively ineffective , the fact that it was considerably safer than mercury meant that it remained in the pharmacopoeia of many countries until the twentieth century . |
| 29 | ‘ But that does n't mean that it suits me , Aunt Louise . |
| 30 | Nor do I mean that it bears the imprint of the time when it arose . |