Example sentences of "mean [that] [noun] [vb mod] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nowadays the problem is quite the reverse : medical science is generally able to determine whether D's conduct caused the death , and innovations such as life-support machines mean that life can be prolonged for months and years in some instances . |
| 2 | the limitation on circulation of the report : normally the client 's instructions , the scope of work and the time constraints in which it is performed mean that circulation should be restricted to those to whom the report is addressed and to other named parties to whom the report is relevant . |
| 3 | Home advantage meant that pitches could be prepared especially to suit fast bowlers , and come the first Test in Jamaica it was soon evident this is what had happened . |
| 4 | ‘ Functionalism ’ was a pragmatic , evolutionary approach to co-operation which simply meant that integration should be pursued in certain selected areas ( or ‘ sectors ’ ) of the economy . |
| 5 | The deal also meant that Kylie could be given a better than average contract , he revealed in Business Review Weekly . |
| 6 | By the late 19th century , hard-knotted rugs had almost ceased to be made in Europe , as the advent of weaving machines meant that rugs could be produced much more quickly at a fraction of the cost . |
| 7 | Medicine , while still based on plants , became more and more sophisticated as knowledge accumulated , especially with the introduction of printing , which meant that information could be passed on exactly , instead of inaccurately , by hearsay , and thus provided a bigger and bigger base from which to work . |
| 8 | They first appeared in the seventeenth century and ceased to be built after the middle of the nineteenth century , when the advent of portable threshing machines meant that ricks could be built and threshed in the fields and field barns were no longer needed . |
| 9 | In effect , this would mean that capital could be reduced , perhaps from zero to being negative . |
| 10 | At its most absurd it might mean that companies could be sued for sending letters to the wrong address . |
| 11 | The new law , proposed by Chelyshev while addressing the " Meeting Place Europe " conference in Bergen , would mean that firms would be taxed at a maximum of ten per cent . |
| 12 | Do these words mean that judges can be dismissed by the Crown only upon an Address of both Houses ( with a direction to the Houses that they are not to present an Address unless the judge has misbehaved himself ) ? |
| 13 | Or do the words mean that judges can be dismissed by the Crown either if they have not behaved themselves ( e.g. been convicted of crime ) or on an Address of both Houses ? |
| 14 | In other words it would mean that battles could be won which people have previously thought could not even be fought . |
| 15 | Tess thought a good deal about the baptism , however , and wondered if it might mean that Sorrow could be buried in the churchyard , with a church service . |
| 16 | It would not mean that animals should be treated equally with people , they do not have the same interests as people . |
| 17 | From the point of view of historians this can only mean that training must be broadened and will need to include a heavily element of information technology ( Greenstein 1993 ; Schürer 1993 ) . |
| 18 | This does not mean that speed must be avoided , nor that the unexpected need offend the eye . |
| 19 | It can mean that theory must be destabilised — ‘ destabilising ’ as something to be done to theory . |
| 20 | This does not mean that reality should be watered down or glossed over . |
| 21 | But in practice some authorities judge that this relationship has meant that loans should be repaid quickly . |
| 22 | A free runtime version of the program is also supplied which means that shows can be distributed to others without any royalty payments having to be made . |
| 23 | The Government 's position is that a tax-raising power in the technical sense inevitably means that taxes will be raised . |
| 24 | Even where it at first appears to be a rather pointless reaction there is invariably found to be some rational element , which means that conflict must be classed alongside other forms of purposive social action . |
| 25 | This means that history can be theorized not so much as a contradictory process but as a concept that must enact its own contradiction with itself : ‘ this difference is what is called History ’ . |
| 26 | Their relative independence of the councils which set them up means that deals can be negotiated and long-term arrangements achieved which do not depend on detailed discussion through council committee . |
| 27 | This presumably means that leave must be sought to file a supplementary statement where any time limit for filing evidence has expired . |
| 28 | That means that arms will be sent to the Baltic — more work for us all . |
| 29 | This means that testing must be done with an attitude of love and helpfulness . |
| 30 | The fonts are claimed to exactly match the standard Adobe ones which means that proofing could be done on a low-cost PCL printer with typeset output produced on a Linotronic . |