Example sentences of "mean that [adv] [art] " 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 | I mean that rather a nice Chinese restaurant in the high street does take away . |
| 3 | The scale of the mean that virtually every service is affected in one part of the country or another . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The fact that so few of the Crown 's powers were redefined in 1688 – 9 meant that neither the old conflicts between Court and Country , nor those between advocates of limited versus strong , autocratic monarchy , had reached any satisfactory resolution . |
| 6 | But he failed to win planning permission because Derwentside Council 's development control sub-committee rejected most of the individual elements , which meant that effectively the whole scheme was refused . |
| 7 | Not necessarily : ‘ I do n't think I meant that even the people who have no caveats attached implied that they knew absolutely everything in the box . |
| 8 | He argued that matter and spirit were manifestations of a single underlying substance — which meant that even the most primitive form of life had some spiritual qualities . |
| 9 | This meant that even the more suspicious members of the Applied Psychology Unit 's general subject panel who took part in later studies appeared to be genuinely surprised when they were given subsequent memory tests . |
| 10 | It began to break down by the 1790s when the pressure of a growing population and insufficient work meant that over a fifth of the labour force was virtually permanently unemployed . |
| 11 | The activities of the chains , however , meant that only a third of the mornings still published in 1988 were in the same ownership as in 1945 . |
| 12 | As a result , the Rector , Dr Colin Adamson , was advised by senior ILEA councillors to resign ‘ in the best interests of the polytechnic ’ ; however , the corporate status of the polytechnic meant that only the governing body can remove him from office and it chose not to do so and he refused to resign . |
| 13 | Summarizing the argument , let me say that there are good reasons , based on sociobiological insights into hunting , which lead me to suppose that the cooperation , altruism and mutuality demanded by social-hunting techniques in 4-foot high hominids lacking all modern hunting technology meant that only the sons were likely at first to start to exploit the immense reserves of game which our gelada-like ancestors saw all around them on the savanna grasslands where they lived . |
| 14 | This situation meant that sometimes a completely unsuitable man was entrusted with an important appointment merely because , for some private reason of his own , he was willing to accept it . |
| 15 | If so , the restoration of the OR seen in these circumstances need not necessarily imply a change in the specific ability of the target stimulus to evoke its UR ; rather it may mean that even a weak tendency to emit this UR can be amplified substantially by a high level of arousal . |
| 16 | But they are aware that the overwhelming suspicion that exists between rival clans , plus the continuing conflict , may mean that even the most honest Somali judge will be unable to work . |
| 17 | If they carried out their threat this would mean that neither the IWC 's conservation measures nor the already weak and inhumane killing regulations would apply to them . |
| 18 | This does not mean that only a slit-eyed cat is dangerous . |
| 19 | And our Lord in the words that we 've read gives a very solemn answer to that question in the , in those words that we read a few moments ago and his immediate answer to the question you know are there few that be saved , was to say many , this was in the following verse , many shall not be able to be saved , now does that mean that only a few will be saved , that there 's only a few people who are gon na be in heaven that Jesus Christ came and died on the cross for about a handful of people , a small percentage does that what it , is that what it means , well lets look and see what the bible has to say , in Matthew chapter seven in verse thirteen and verse fourteen , this is what Jesus says enter by the narrow gate for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction and many of those who enter by it , for the gate is small and the way is narrow that leads to life , but few of those who find it any way in the same book , in , in Matthew in , in , in chapter twenty two and in , in , in verse fourteen , listen again to what it says there Jesus is speaking he says for many a called , but few are chosen |
| 20 | It was entirely within range of even the smaller cannon left in the castle , although depressing the muzzles sufficiently downwards would mean that only the far side of the ford would be bombardable . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Of course , to know you have or have had cancer , can mean that thereafter every little ache , every little pain is a secondary on its way to catch you . |
| 23 | Delusion is possible for everyone : feeling certain does not mean that therefore the world is as we think it is . |
| 24 | It is accepted that this : may mean that sometimes an employee will get a bit less than he might have expected ; it may mean that sometimes an employer will have to pay a little more than he had expected . |
| 25 | It is accepted that this : may mean that sometimes an employee will get a bit less than he might have expected ; it may mean that sometimes an employer will have to pay a little more than he had expected . |
| 26 | However , financial uncertainty , a low priority attached until recently to rural schemes by the Housing Corporation and problems associated with its national-scale administration , coupled with some rural planning restrictions , have meant that only a very small number of the schemes of this and other organizations have come to fruition . |
| 27 | So and I would extend the same argument to abortion and I would say erm wh what happens in abortion admittedly erm an artificial abortion mean means that presumably a spontaneous abortion has has n't happened , but a modern woman is using extra means that she has er at her disposal , probably to deal with extra problems which evolution originally could not foresee and ultimately her self-interest might be just as well served by having er induced the abortion ultimately as it would by erm by not having but I mean this is just my personal view , and I do n't |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | It means that neither the magnitude nor the position of the charge varies as a function of time . |
| 30 | 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 . |