Example sentences of "means [conj] you ca n't [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it 's fixed that means that you ca n't move it or it 's very problematic , it 's not going right , they do strapping , splints and plaster of paris as some of you have seen . |
| 2 | And the costume itself enforced this , if you can imagine , you can see , see their upper sleeves , this is actually quite full round here , but the upper sleeves are quite tight , which means that you ca n't move like this very easily . |
| 3 | [ There was discrimination ] not directly , but in subtle ways , like when you 're choosing your options , no matter what you 're doing there 's always a group where you can do cookery or needlework , but if you 're doing physics you have to put that down , and that means that you ca n't do something else that you might want to do , like history or something ; you 've got to make a positive choice to do science whereas it 's quite easy to drift into doing history and things like that . |
| 4 | What affected my career was having children , which immediately means that you ca n't devote the amount of time to your career as you can if you do n't have other responsibilities , and the reason that I 'm now a Research Fellow here , and I work part-time — only eighty per cent of the time — is because of trying to tie in one 's responsibilities as a mother with those as a scientist , and this has obvious effects . |
| 5 | So picking the bones out of that , it 's size , composition , economic significance and locational requirement means that you ca n't bed it down in your ordinary I five allocation . |
| 6 | Cos that means that you ca n't get things like |
| 7 | Once again , you have a case which asks for an answer divided into two main sections , which means that you ca n't use the classic problem-solving structure . |