Example sentences of "[conj] that meant that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nearly always one at least was missing , and that meant that seven men we all knew had got the chop . |
| 2 | So they were both back and that meant that Jasper was too . |
| 3 | He was delighted to find the house still a blaze of light ; that meant the part was still in full swing , which meant Gerard would be busy … and that meant that he should be able to creep in through the kitchen door . |
| 4 | ( 3 ) And that meant that the moon ought sometimes to appear twice as big as at other times ! |
| 5 | So the targets were set er and a new basis of working agreed to mutually with the management , on the understanding that er the existing piecework supplement , erm would be multiplied by three , and that meant that our colleagues were er able to earn something like er three and sixpence old money an hour , if indeed they met the target bonus . |
| 6 | And that meant that the universe could not be static , as everyone previously had thought , but is in fact expanding ; the distance between the different galaxies is growing all the time . |
| 7 | And that 's left us in some er , difficulties frankly , because one of the things that er , the C E C was recommending , that work of a strategic nature , which at the moment is undertaken by industrial conferences should be moved over to be dealt with by section conferences and that meant that a number of industrial conferences need not meet any longer , so we would avoid the duplication , the overlap and the waste . |
| 8 | And that meant that Downes could not possibly have killed Kemp before that time , and Downes was going to make absolutely certain — as he did — that he was never out of sight or out of touch with his group — except for the odd , brief visit to the loo — at any time that afternoon or early evening . |
| 9 | Now this is an appalling situation , er th the B C C I 's books were certified by the auditors as a true and fair record from December nineteenth er December thirty first nineteen er eighty seven forward a and that meant that people had confidence in B C C I , here we 're told that the auditors are giving it er a certificate of a a true and fair record er encouraging therefore people to in t to invest and yet prior to nineteen eighty nine Price Waterhouse knew of gross irregularities er in B C C I 's handling of loads , particularly the load to C C A H which was the holding company for First American er bank shares . |