Example sentences of "mean that [pron] [vb mod] not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To touch a dead man or to come into contact with the blood of an injured person would make them unclean and mean that they could not carry out their duties . |
| 2 | Does Article 37 mean that they could not make a claim to terminate the right on this ground ? |
| 3 | Time and financial constraints , as well as a recent rapid increase in student numbers ( 90 in 1991 , 125 in 1992 ) , mean that we can not make this as wide-ranging as we would like . |
| 4 | I mean that you can not say that carp are generally nocturnal feeders , or morning feeders , or whatever . |
| 5 | My own conclusions , which in this case are probably completely worthless , are that this ticking represents a period of grace — I mean that it can not explode — as long as the ticking lasts and that it 's not designed to explode when the ticking stops but is then activated and ready to explode when triggered by passing engines . |
| 6 | The complex , changing , and often unconscious nature of discourses , the analysis 's own discursive positioning , and the differences within it , mean that it can not reach a complete understanding of psychology 's discursive subjects . |
| 7 | Sources close to the couple said yesterday 's admission of the problems coupled with the pact meant that they would not separate — at least for the moment . |
| 8 | Their low productivity , high levels of ( now-withdrawn ) state subsidy and overmanning meant that they could not compete with agricultural products from West Germany and other EC countries . |
| 9 | That meant that they could not stand the Central Office youths involved in the nuts and bolts of the campaign . |
| 10 | They had invested millions of dollars and lives in this war , and this meant that they could not extract themselves easily . |
| 11 | When Mr John Guy , an orthopaedic surgeon at the Worcester Royal Infirmary , wrote to people on his waiting list to say that health authority cuts meant that they could not have their hip replacement operations , a patient passed a copy of his letter to Nicholas Ridley . |
| 12 | This prohibition on other forms of lending meant that they could not issue cheque guarantee cards because they would then be obliged to honour cheques of depositors who overdrew their accounts thereby , in effect , giving them an overdraft . |
| 13 | ‘ I simply meant that we should not have fish so unfailingly , on a regular day of the week , in future . ’ |
| 14 | All of these activities meant that he could not get on with his new play , of which the first two scenes were already drafted and which he had planned , tentatively , to finish in time for the Edinburgh Festival of 1952 . |
| 15 | Ferkhan also owned land near the village and complained that lack of electricity meant that he could not pump water to his field and , as a result , he had grown only twenty tons of melons compared to eighty before the war … |
| 16 | Paisley had based his assertion about the danger to himself on a warning from inside the security forces and this fact meant that he could not establish the credibility of it by revealing the source of his information . |
| 17 | Although the accord meant that essential medical and fuel supplies began reaching the island in mid-February , the agreement 's failure to address the central issue of Bougainville 's future status meant that it could not provide a final solution to the conflict . |
| 18 | In the past , this did not mean that we would not move from company to company , it most certainly did not mean that we ha that we thought we had a job for life , but it did mean that we expected a degree of permanence and improvement as part of the reward for our endeavours and labour . |
| 19 | there were pressures coming on the company which would mean that we could not continue to do that |
| 20 | If a client can not be regarded as a corporate finance client it does not mean that we can not act on his behalf . |
| 21 | It will mean that we can not shape the institutions to which subsequently we shall have to submit . |
| 22 | But that does not mean that they should not look positive for the world . |
| 23 | This does not mean that they should not attend the Anonymous Fellowships . |
| 24 | The fact of no income may well mean that she can not continue to pay the mortgage , and so she will have to move house thereby losing her home , friends and familiar surroundings . |
| 25 | The fact that the game itself is trivial , and , of course , in most ways it is , does not mean that it can not inflict real pain . |
| 26 | The fact that it will rain tomorrow , for example , may mean that I should not go to London , even though the balance of reasons on the merits of my going ( i.e. all the reasons pro and con but the rain ) suggest that I should go . |
| 27 | Just because you live alone does not mean that you should not bother . |
| 28 | That does n't mean that you can not use photographs , merely that the traditional methods still produce better results than the electronic ones . |
| 29 | Then , in the early part of this century , the quantum theory appeared ; its details need not concern us except for the fact that it implied that all forms of matter and energy came in tiny discrete packages called quanta ( by ‘ discrete ’ is meant that you can not have half a quantum ) . |
| 30 | The consequent reduction in his income had meant that he could not afford to run a car any longer , and therefore he had been seeing less and less of his girlfriend , who lived 15 miles away . |