Example sentences of "meant that the [noun sg] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From New York , meanwhile , Wilcock had begun to send over copies of EVO , which meant that the Australian had become more aware than most in London of the underground explosion across the Atlantic . |
| 2 | What was needed was a dispassionate focus on the root of the problem , and this meant that the subject had to lose its normative character . |
| 3 | In theory , validation meant that the user had read the specification , imagined how the system would work in practice , and agreed the design . |
| 4 | Neither of us spoke but we both knew that if we heard shots it meant that the operation had failed . |
| 5 | The acceptance of such a scheme meant that the government had accepted , albeit for economic and demographic reasons , the principle that ‘ society should include in its economic structure some form of direct financial provision for the maintenance of children , instead of proceeding on the assumption that , save in cases of exceptional misfortune , this is a matter which concerns only individual parents and should be left to them because normally men 's wages or salaries are , or ought to be and can be made to be , sufficient for the support of their families ’ ( Rathbone , 1940 ) . |
| 6 | David Blunkett , Labour 's local government spokesman , said the announcement meant that the Government had admitted defeat over the poll tax , and that the money was solely aimed at the next election . |
| 7 | By that I meant that the Treasury had cleared the papers for Cabinet and that agreement on the policy went back several months . |
| 8 | Moreover , even when negotiations were opened , the principle of reciprocal bargaining introduced by the United States as a result of its own domestic legislation from the 1930s , meant that the LDC 's had little to bargain with . |
| 9 | After this the law became increasingly convoluted as the courts tried to escape the rigours of a rule which meant that the court had to make a finding in favour of one party or the other . |
| 10 | As it happened , it merely meant that the monster had sprouted two heads . |
| 11 | In this case , the move of premises meant that the employee had to travel an extra 40 miles each day . |
| 12 | No doubt their slowness , coupled with the initial inertia of the judges , meant that the exhibition had to remain intact , seriously hampering preparations for the exhibition of models for the Wellington monument which began to arrive at the hall the day after the Government Offices exhibition closed . |
| 13 | Inevitably this procedure , in the early years , worked less than smoothly , with budgets drawn up hurriedly under the pressure of reorganisation , and the Ministry being quite glad on occasion if they were exceeded , since this simply meant that the industry had achieved more than expected with limited physical resources . |
| 14 | It meant that the industry had to justify , under cross-examination , its policies . |