Example sentences of "meant [that] [pron] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The entire house was infested with mice which meant that everybody was in constant battle against their droppings and their smell . |
| 2 | The geographical and social distribution of railway-workers meant that they were not as cohesive a force as other industrial groups like the steel- or textile-workers . |
| 3 | Both Warnie and Minto were jealous of anyone who claimed Jack 's love ; this meant that they were bound to be jealous of one another , since for both of them Jack was the most important person in the universe . |
| 4 | There were no jobs for young people in rural areas ; rising property prices meant that they were unable to find housing in the villages in which they had grown up . |
| 5 | The fact that , unlike men , women 's periods of bodily emission followed a regular and extended ( i.e. several days at a time ) cycle meant that they were declared unclean for a large part of their lives ( for details see below ) . |
| 6 | The system of appointment coupled with effective nomination rights by some interests and local government meant that they were ‘ neither truly representative nor management ’ ( para 5.4 ) . |
| 7 | It was well beyond the range of the ‘ oboe ’ radar equipment and meant that they were wide open to fighter attacks as they approached the city . |
| 8 | Within a few hours , a team of very brave men descended into the crater and entered the workings where the disaster had begun ; the danger of further subsidence from the surface and the extremely unsafe condition of the underground workings meant that they were knowingly putting their lives at risk . |
| 9 | I guess Jim meant that they were the first American string company to invent these strings . |
| 10 | Their solitary life meant that they were in the forefront of the new mystical spirit of the fourteenth century , and through The Ladder of Perfection Hilton helped them to graft the new spirituality onto the old Benedictine pieties . |
| 11 | The intensity of these aspirations meant that they were inevitably ‘ brief and ‘ pure ’ and the constant reading ensured that they would be ‘ frequent ’ . |
| 12 | While the French police eventually traced the pieces to Osaka , lack of cooperation on the part of the Japanese authorities meant that they were not returned to France until June 1990 , and then only on the condition that they were returned to Japan by December of that year . |
| 13 | However , the statutorily-entrenched power of the area chairmen meant that they were more successful than any other group within the Authority in forcing reconsideration of headquarters ' views . |
| 14 | This still meant that they were taking more than five years on average , a rather miserable performance when compared either with American or with some continental European power stations . |
| 15 | Cigarettes were placed on the table in front of you which meant that they were for everybody . |
| 16 | They were hailed in their day as " bold " and one of the most uncompromising " developments of the fifties , which simply meant that they were deliberately ugly — the genre of " brutalism " . |
| 17 | The journeymen who were employed " to do all the tasks the women did not " , as well as to train the novices , meant that they were mixed offices from the start . |
| 18 | As well as being subjected to extreme temperature changes outside , having to constantly leave a warm room to either make a cup of tea or go to the toilet , for example , meant that they were doubly exposed to cold stress as well as to daily stress . |
| 19 | They were on reserve , which meant that they were n't on the shelves but had to be ordered from the stock by a librarian . |
| 20 | For centuries the continual struggle of ordinary country folk to harvest an income to keep them and their families above starvation level meant that they were always prepared to swallow their pride and go , cap in hand , to the gentry for a few vital coppers The same philosophy spawned the hiring fairs ( which continued until the second half of the century ) when the ‘ spare ’ children of rural ( and sometimes urban ) families , not required for work at home , were sent to stand at appointed places where prospective employers could examine and interrogate them checking their limbs for strength and making sure they were properly subservient There was n't a deal of difference , fundamentally , between hiring fairs ( as immortalized by Thomas Hardy in Far From the Madding Crowd and the weekly cattle auctions held in market towns . |
| 21 | The fact that they were needed by the state , because there was a " public " dimension to their activity , meant that they were actually co-opted into governmental decision-making : they were asked to give advice , and , more than this , they came to act as agents through which state policy was actually implemented . |
| 22 | Is he aware that among women serving life sentences in Bullwood Hall women 's prison for murdering their husbands there are several whose lack of command of English meant that they were not aware that there was anywhere that they could run to , that some women who had tried to run away from extreme brutality were dragged back by their families , and that some were terrified of leaving their children with a brutal partner , and that therefore they had to wait until they could do something about it and were driven to commit murder ? |
| 23 | In other words , by restricting tests to just one equity market , the tests had built into them a bias which meant that they were not valid tests of the CAPM . |
| 24 | Obviously most firms would readily sacrifice some profit if it meant that they were likely to be in business for some time . |
| 25 | There are various exceptions erm and there have been two or three in recent years , but it therefore meant that they were fair game for saying anything so they were fair game for a very sensational headline because there was very little chance of recrimination . |
| 26 | ‘ When I said ‘ home ’ I meant that we 're all going back home — to London ! ’ |
| 27 | He went on : ‘ Looking back , the fact that we were the first to say Thatcher should go over the Lawson affair meant that we were in the game . |
| 28 | The fact that women were less likely to go absent but more likely to be in unfavourable jobs meant that we were misled about the effect of low status jobs on absence before we controlled for sex . |
| 29 | We knew this meant that we were not to repeat it . |
| 30 | On the way , I remember Aunt Rachel telling me that a station was Rugby , which meant that we were then right in the centre of England , whilst a bit later on , I was told to look out to see the Welsh mountains . |