Example sentences of "[det] [adv] mean [conj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | erm This also meant that you could n't move around very fast , the clothes were so tightly made , that for a large part of the time , you were immobile and glad to be , glad to be so . |
| 32 | This also means that the infant can now understand a kind of ambiguity : the rattle is both ‘ absent ’ and ‘ present ’ at the same time . |
| 33 | ‘ We recommend vegetable or groundnut oil — this also means that the food product is healthier because the frying medium is better . ’ |
| 34 | This also means that the interviewers are relieved of the problem of having to remember what questions are to be asked and , even more , the interviewer is relieved of having to enter the responses after the interview has ended , as in the case when no notes are taken , or only sketchy abbreviations of replies are made during the interview . |
| 35 | But this also means that as the morphology of species matured over great periods of historic time , other forms became more adapted to life on land , while yet others returned to the water to escape the increasing competition . |
| 36 | This also means that the ease of searching is very important , but in a commercial package running in a single workstation environment , the amount of memory used should be kept to a minimum . |
| 37 | This also means that the business can not claim back VAT on the purchases which it makes . |
| 38 | Quite apart from the quality aspect , this also means that it can make use of the enormous range of fonts that are available for LaserJet printers . |
| 39 | This also means that it has been introduced by humans to a lot of places it 's not native to — Indonesian islands , mainly — and it has widely hybridised with the introduced wild boar . |
| 40 | Unfortunately , this also means that they are of value only to those users who have the expertise and the authority to make more detailed investigations . |
| 41 | This also means that once the horizon is crossed the source will inevitably head toward the centre of the black hole . |
| 42 | This also means that all prices are determined by competitive trading rather than private agreement . |
| 43 | This also means that it is not possible to compare the dissociation from isolated GC sites with that from clusters of such sites which may be stabilised by cooperative interaction . |
| 44 | Unfortunately this also means that non-tax-payers lose out to an extent as they would prefer a higher gross interest rate that is subject to a person 's rate of income tax . |
| 45 | This also means that the narrative tempo of the novel changes on many occasions , and on perhaps most occasions is particularly slow as a tempo . |
| 46 | If , however , a vector x does exist for which Ax = 0 , this clearly means that any column of A can be expressed as a linear sum of the remaining columns ; by the rules for evaluation of determinants this requires unc to be zero . |
| 47 | This probably means that the remedy was close but not quite close enough to give any sustained relief . |
| 48 | If you lack confidence in your ability to give her the right kind of help and comfort , but really want to do so , you have nothing to fear , because this probably means that you are much better equipped for the task than you imagine . |
| 49 | This probably means that Earth may initially have been hotter than some scientists suggest , since even these heavy noble gases were driven off when the hot gaseous molecules reached high escape velocities . |
| 50 | This means that leaders and government have to be accessible to the people ; and , given the great gulf that has opened up between them in so many modern societies , this probably means that the government has to go to the people , rather than expecting the people to come to it . |
| 51 | This probably means that mistakes in the details of these proteins ( they are produced during the clotting of blood ) do n't matter much for the organism . |
| 52 | I mean that 's a , a thing that er I remember seeing a TV documentary and there was this bloke , I du n no if he was from the Terence Higgins Trust , I do n't think so , but erm er anyway he was going on about this , this very thing that there 's often the homophobic imagination er has this sort of slippage between you know , consenting adult activity and if you 're gay , if you 're homosexual then this probably means that you 're also interested in seducing children , you 're also interested in sado-masochistic activity er you 're also interested in , you know , a whole variety of other , you know , things which |
| 53 | This inevitably means that in each generation the loss of individuals from the population through mortality prior to breeding or through failure to breed , eliminates not isolated genes but sets of associated genes from the pool of genes that represents the total population of that species . |
| 54 | This inevitably means that any attempt to analyse macrosociological data — aggregate national statistics for levels of income and unemployment , trends in infant mortality and the like — is bound to give rise to controversy . |
| 55 | This inevitably means that there is a sufficient breeding stock around to continue the cycle — and there will be a good supply of rabbits available for next year . |
| 56 | This inevitably means that a helicopter set will cost a little more than a basic aircraft set which needs no more than four channels . |
| 57 | I would refer to the winner of ‘ Hands On ’ ( WW/April 91/p.398 ) does this now mean that screwdrivers can now be used for opening tins of paint with raising of eyebrows ? |
| 58 | This now means that many institutions no longer have the business and technological skills in-house to take on large systems integration projects , and are looking to external providers to save them money on services and hardware . |
| 59 | The details of the changes were given in the announcements , but in summary this now means that for members of Schedule II — |
| 60 | In practice this often meant that immature minds would take over Leavis 's own evaluations without relating them to their own experience of literature , resulting in the diffusion of callow or inept judgements that has been condemned from the right by C. S. Lewis and from the left by Catherine Belsey . |