Example sentences of "mean [conj] [noun sg] [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Would the fact that he was put in as priest at Oldfield mean that Marr would have to have been known to Lord Dersingham ? ’ |
| 2 | At first people thought that particles of light traveled infinitely fast , so gravity would not have been able to slow them down , but the discovery by Roemer that light travels at a finite speed meant that gravity might have an important effect . |
| 3 | This meant that country could keep on running during the war , and , proving that they could do the same jobs as men , women gave themselves an enormous boost in the push for votes . |
| 4 | The sovereignty of Parliament meant that Parliament could make and unmake any law whatsoever ; there was no higher legislative authority ; and no court was in a position to declare Acts of Parliament invalid . |
| 5 | This meant that Cargolux could recover from Lies in England whatever the Luxembourg air carrier had to pay to McGregor or Arctic for damage suffered by cartons carried by Lies , |
| 6 | Despite his best efforts to concentrate power effectively within his own hands , the emphasis on local authority implicit in a system purporting to operate through the traditional rulers of a primitive country , which possessed nothing approaching a unitary state co-extensive with its official boundaries , inevitably meant that power would drain away from the centre towards the local administrator , who alone could claim the special knowledge of local conditions , and opportunity for intimate supervision , on which Indirect Rule implicitly depended . |
| 7 | By this he meant that death would result from the body ‘ wearing out ’ at the end of the natural lifecourse rather than early death resulting from disease or trauma . |
| 8 | Where such a ‘ Healthcheck ’ is carried out , care should be taken to ensure that the report addressed to the client only that the client is made aware that it is not a comprehensive list of all matters to be addressed prior to sale and that implementation of recommendations does not necessarily mean that management should provide any warranties on the matter . |
| 9 | This will mean that funding will go where it is most needed locally rather than according to a set of priorities determined in Whitehall . |
| 10 | This would mean that disorder would decrease with time . |
| 11 | This would mean that science could predict that the universe must have had a beginning , but that it could not predict how the universe should begin : For that , one would have to appeal to God . |
| 12 | If Rees had been successful there , it would have meant that legislation would have had to be introduced into Parliament which would remove those legal disabilities affecting transsexuals which the court may find contravene the Convention . |
| 13 | Setting output equal to aggregate demand means that output will exceed y n when aggregate demand is unexpectedly high and output will fall below y n when aggregate demand is unexpectedly low . |
| 14 | But a summer of mistakes and ebbing confidence means that loyalty will count for nothing when Poland arrive at Wembley next Wednesday . |
| 15 | Second the fact that God 's personal self-disclosure in the Bible was given in terms of the hearers ' own culture inevitably means that misunderstanding may arise and points be missed when read by people of another culture who are unfamiliar with the cultural milieu of the Bible . |
| 16 | It may also be that further relevant information comes to light after the original decision was taken which , in your opinion , means that management should reconsider its attitude . |
| 17 | It means that man can influence the events of heaven . |
| 18 | The authoritative TV voice concluded : ‘ The tradition of televised Sunday afternoon football means that Sky may find it difficult to maintain viewing levels on Monday evenings with viewers staying loyal to big terrestrial shows . ’ |
| 19 | the game is on monday … broadcasted live over here in europe by SkySport. which means that halvard will leave home heading for a pub with SkySport and probably a pint or five ( depends on the result ) … |
| 20 | But do not use coral sand or coral chippings — the lower pH of brackish water compared with true seawater ( pH 8.2 ) means that coral can dissolve , raising the calcium content too high . |
| 21 | This means that AI will condemn and oppose such actions by nges . |
| 22 | It also means that officialdom can participate in the ‘ privatization ’ of the national economy , including not only embezzlement and bribery but also exchanging services , making useful connections and lavishly granting administrative favours to potential allies and sponsors in expectation of reciprocity ’ ( Hirszowicz 1980 , p. 271 ) . |
| 23 | The fact that one of the Games squad , Graeme Smith , had earlier applied , but then accepted the refusal of leave of absence to compete in the Grand Prix , means that action will need to be taken . |
| 24 | This means that science can have two histories , which constantly intertwine but never resolve , with one evaluated as positive , the other as negative and therefore silently suppressed even though it may remain determining . |
| 25 | Good marketing means that time will have to be found to listen and respond to what others have to say , time and attention will need to be diverted from other activities . |
| 26 | The rising ‘ middle class technocratic ’ element in the party could believe this to mean that Labour would support modern managerial private industry while the left could imagine it meant the nationalisation of profitable growth industries in the name of state-sponsored technological advance . |