Example sentences of "which mean [that] [pers pn] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The play was a two-hander , which meant that it was carried from beginning to end by the two stars . |
| 2 | Wilson was quick to see how provocative such a development would be to the shipowners and refused to accept the post , though he confessed to have been " foolish enough to have allowed myself to be nominated and elected as honorary general manager , which meant that I was lending my name to an organization over which I had no control " . |
| 3 | She had come to the beginning of the shelters now , which meant that she was drawing near the pier . |
| 4 | Her eyes innocently wide , she gave a slow smile , because she had known it was a viewing platform , of course ; and he knew that she knew , which meant that he was teasing her , and that he was one of those people who always managed to keep a straight face . |
| 5 | There was a lot of spit and the teeth bumped into yours which meant that you were spitting chips of enamel afterwards , and she kissed with her eyes open and she had a very bad squint — so you always thought that she was watching something else . |
| 6 | So some were staring down at you and others were well below your eye level , which meant that you were scanning for each piece rather than reading them as a series . |
| 7 | If these three are all to be included , the remaining eight players must al be able to bat well , which means that we are looking for at least three allrounders , including the wicketkeeper . |
| 8 | Recruitment policies are not touched on , with one brief prewar exception ( p. 10 ) , which means that we are kept in ignorance of the kinds of men and women ( reputedly mostly Oxbridge dons ) who augmented MI5 's strength and clearly had a great impact on its whole character and competence at the beginning of the war . |
| 9 | A limited number of ISE member firms are registered market makers in options , which means that they are required to make a market in classes of ISE listed traded options . |
| 10 | The problem for the students to some extent , is being compounded by the withdrawal of housing benefit , which means that they 're paying the full cost of rents in the private sector , whereas before they might have been getting ten , twelve even , more pounds a week refunded to them through the housing benefit scheme . |
| 11 | I still have to carry water to her because sometimes she wo n't come out of the byre and follow her mother , which means that she is left all on her own . |
| 12 | Athens raised Potidaia 's tribute from six to fifteen talents as early as the period 438–434 , which means that she was pressurizing Potidaia ( ‘ encroaching ’ on allies of the Peloponnesians ) much earlier than Thucydides implies . |
| 13 | Since the uncle is the boy 's heir , this shows that the jurist must regard a transmissible interest in the estate as having vested in the boy before his death ; which means that he is taking dies cedens to have passed , although the boy has not lived until age sixteen ; and that in turn means that he is interpreting the trust as subject not to a condition but to a term ( dies ) . |
| 14 | ‘ there must be something in the nature of a criminal intent of the kind which means that it is done with the idea of some form of hostility to the police with the intention of seeing that what is done is to obstruct , and that it is not enough merely to show that he intended to do what he did and that it did in fact have the result of the police being obstructed . ’ |
| 15 | It is entirely land-locked , which means that it is bordered in all directions by other countries — Zambia , Zimbabwe , Namibia and South Africa . |
| 16 | Some say that the breed originated in Wales from a cross between local cattle at Castle Farm in Brecon with Castlemartins from Pembrokeshire , which means that it is related to neighbouring Glamorgan , Gloucester and Welsh Black breeds . |
| 17 | And it is the fact of being the written form which means that it is used not only in Britain but by all writers of English throughout the world , with remarkably little variation . |