Example sentences of "mean that the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the emotional level , this can mean that the personal involvement is engaged ahead of the action , and that by the time the manipulation is actually taking effect , its originator can sit back and observe what she has set in motion . |
| 2 | Does this mean that the upper class no longer controls the wealth that it owns ? |
| 3 | This does not mean that that intelligibility can be wholly captured in the formulations or in the mind of the theologian ; it does , however , mean that the divine intelligibility comes across to us , that God gives himself to be known and understood , and that the understanding that is made possible in theology is and is intended to be a genuine understanding and an authentic contact with the intelligibility of God . |
| 4 | Now since the number of waves a second is unlimited , this would mean that the total energy radiated would be infinite . |
| 5 | An initial phase of discrimination training will establish a tendency to make certain ( different ) responses to the critical stimuli , but the change in the nature of the task for the second phase should mean that the specific response patterns acquired in the first phase will be irrelevant . |
| 6 | ALTHOUGH from March to the end of May , the main German effort took place on the Left Bank of the Meuse , this did not mean that the Right Bank had become a ‘ quiet sector ’ . |
| 7 | Mankind 's failure to recognise with conviction that this basic source of ‘ goodness ’ represents the first premise from which to define God , would mean that the only way in which civilisation can prosper is barred , for there is no other identifiable source available . |
| 8 | This does not mean that the educated teacher will continually be in quest of innovation and reject conventional practices out of hand . |
| 9 | Do such declarations mean that the young citizen should be involved in discussing Britain 's defence budget and strategic posture ? |
| 10 | In 1962 Neel proposed that the persistence of diabetes mellitus must mean that the diabetic genotype holds some survival advantage . |
| 11 | If the relationship between two variables entirely disappears when a causally prior variable is brought under control , we say that the original relationship was spurious ; by this we do not mean that the bivariate effect did not really exist , but rather that causal conclusions drawn from it would be incorrect . |
| 12 | Not only does this mean that the rural population is not being fully utilised in terms of labour power , it also means they are too poor to provide a substantial market for industry . |
| 13 | But this does not mean that the carbon-zinc battery would be suitable for use in your detector . |
| 14 | However , the fact that a dictionary is in machine-readable form does not necessarily mean that the required information is instantly available — pre-processing may be necessary to organise the information . |
| 15 | But I think , but I do think it does mean that the first thing we say is that the work is more important than some of , maybe some of the , the nicer to have three year projects at the moment . |
| 16 | This would mean that the federal share of the total budget revenue in relation to the two republics would be reduced from 50 per cent to 33 per cent . |
| 17 | Exposure to the CS prior to the conditioning trials will mean that the conditional probability of US given CS ( when assessed over all trials ) will be lowered and the likelihood of the CSs being able to evoke a CR will be reduced . |
| 18 | Her craving for advice with a Thatcherite spin on it does not mean that the Prime Minister will automatically diminish Civil Service contributions as flowing from a tainted source . |
| 19 | However , " consistency " does not mean that the normal course must have been followed on the occasion in question , otherwise it would be impossible to argue course of dealing in the case where it is most relevant . |
| 20 | It may mean that the legal title to the property is defective , and if this is so , certain remedial steps may be necessary , such as obtaining a defective title indemnity policy from an insurance company and a statutory declaration from the seller or the seller 's neighbours . |
| 21 | However it does mean that the additional information can be removed from the look-up tree , which in turn means that a compression method can now be applied to the tree , such as utilising a directed acyclic word graph ( section 3.2.5 and section 3.3.3 ) . |
| 22 | A reduction in the rate of interest ( r ) following an increase in money supply may well make bond holding less attractive , but this does not mean that the extra money will be mainly held in idle balances . |
| 23 | This would mean that the early universe would have probably been very chaotic and irregular because there are many more chaotic and disordered configurations for the universe than there are smooth and ordered ones . |
| 24 | That does not mean that the Labour Party are run or ruled by the trade unions . |
| 25 | That would mean that the best part of the programme — its price reform — would only cause inflation ( already in three digits ) to spiral out of control . |
| 26 | However , despite its successes , Newton 's law of gravitation is fundamentally flawed : it is time independent , which would mean that the gravitational force could act instantaneously at all distances . |
| 27 | This does not mean that the logical model need to be relational , but it is obviously convenient to use a relational DBMS when using the methodology described in the text . |
| 28 | That will mean that the gradual integration of textiles into the usual GATT arrangements over 10 years will be accompanied and , in most cases , preceded by a strengthening of the rules and discipline of GATT which , among other things , apply to surges of imports , dumping and so on . |
| 29 | But that does n't mean that the ordinary case is one in which the woman is in any way asking to be raped . |
| 30 | Nevertheless , the formation of the canon of writings did not mean that the living tradition of the teaching Church was downgraded . |