Example sentences of "[vb mod] mean that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Anthony Storr , author of the recently-published Churchill 's Black Dog , in which he showed how senior politicans often turned stresses of up-bringing into strengths , said yesterday : ‘ I 'm interested because the gates must mean that she 's feeling increasingly insecure and threatened in a simple , straightforward way ; and that 's an interesting phenomenum in itself because she 's been so absolutely certain of herself . |
| 2 | If two Cambridge electors voted against , that must mean that the faculty divided about Ramsey . |
| 3 | When we say that what we see is a mile away , we must mean that were we to move forward a mile , we would be ‘ affected with such and such ideas of touch ’ ; and so Berkeley concludes that the things we see are not the same as those we touch . |
| 4 | He had been anxious in case white hairs got on the suit , which must mean that , wherever he decided to go , he would go somewhere . |
| 5 | If we believe , as we are taught , that the Kingdom of God is within us , surely this must mean that many of life 's experiences are a foretaste of the joys that are to come in heaven ? |
| 6 | The high political profile of the NHS must mean that short-term issues will continue to intrude on NHS operations . |
| 7 | This must mean that future progress in the control of malaria will slow down . |
| 8 | And for someone in my position to make a jump from one thing to another and to be feeling better than I 've felt in ten years , feeling like I 'm at the top of my game creatively at the moment , must mean that I 've grown in the making of this album . |
| 9 | Because he can not be wrong , that must mean that I am unlovable . ’ |
| 10 | Which must mean that he intends to be there for some time . |
| 11 | This must mean that there is a written connection between the three . |
| 12 | That must mean that whatever we are involved in is conditioned by one overall fact : whatever we do is either to the service or dis service of Christ . |
| 13 | But that must mean that the estate might run well into six figures . |
| 14 | If Soviet economic relations with her East European clients have become a ‘ net liability ’ to the USSR in any meaningful sense , this must mean that , on balance the USSR would be better off without them and not simply that they involve a net expenditure . |
| 15 | The fact that conflict produces anti-labour , or a contingent situation that was not the original aim of either conflictual group , must mean that in this schema History has a negative unity , notwithstanding the troubled formulation of the singular-universal . |
| 16 | It must always involve an excess beyond the totality without which the totality could never be totalized , which must mean that it can never in fact be closed . |
| 17 | In part it must mean that past generations of people have created a culture and it has been handed down to the present generation . |
| 18 | He had just heard the banqueting hall cannons fire , which must mean that the sepoys were attempting an attack from the flank ; he hoped that their attack had not succeeded because he and his men had more than they could cope with already . |
| 19 | Perhaps you can see that this must mean that interchanging the two particles must leave me in exactly the same physical state . |
| 20 | This must mean that it is able to visualise the relationship in space of all these paths to one another . |
| 21 | The frequency of remarriage after divorce must mean that so-called reconstituted families have become an increasingly significant social phenomenon . |
| 22 | In 1962 Neel proposed that the persistence of diabetes mellitus must mean that the diabetic genotype holds some survival advantage . |
| 23 | Informally this must mean that P " is essentially the same as " Q , in that , to an observer who can not detect their internal structure , the behaviours of P and Q are indistinguishable . |
| 24 | This must mean that subsidence has been steady , for any halts in subsidence should have resulted in the formation of fringing reefs which would later have been converted to barrier reefs by renewed subsidence . |
| 25 | And this must mean that the score itself came first as well — before the publication of the song-book , which was offered for sale in the theatre during the 1692 run of the show . |
| 26 | Surely that must mean that there was a rational explanation to all that had happened ? |
| 27 | Ianthe was sure it must mean that her uncle had been unable to come-for some comparatively harmless reason- and that there was to be no service that evening . |
| 28 | Now another from the direction of the short 16th must mean that he had scored a birdie 2 . |
| 29 | It must mean that she had been mentioned in the will . |
| 30 | This must mean that cross-examination about these reasons is irrelevant . |