Example sentences of "mean [that] [noun] [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Terms are used , like chicks , broads , birds , dolls , slags and tarts which mean that women are never simply ‘ women ’ but always to be defined according to their sexual appearance and their sexual availability . |
| 2 | Sheer numbers mean that widows are much less likely to remarry than widowers : there simply are n't enough men of their age around . |
| 3 | There are many people now , by no means all scientists , who habitually talk of the parameters of a situation rather than describe what is happening , of infrastructural problems when the trains are late , of the sexually dimorphic aspect of Homo sapiens when they mean that men are generally larger than women . |
| 4 | ‘ Lower interest rates and current house price levels mean that house are more affordable now than they have been for over 20 years . ’ |
| 5 | The expanded audit mandates discussed in chapter 6 mean that auditors are no longer solely concerned with fiscal compliance ; rather they are now charged with assessing and reporting on management 's efforts to develop effective programmes as efficiently as possible . |
| 6 | These two facts mean that diabetes is both a common and important clinical condition . |
| 7 | The purchase and sale of the land was carried out at fixed 1945 prices at a time of rampant inflation , which meant that landlords were virtually expropriated and farmers were able to pay off the purchase price and own their land outright in a year or two . |
| 8 | The great expansion of fossil discoveries now meant that paleontologists were increasingly confident in their ability to plot the course of each group 's development . |
| 9 | This meant that Alison was more than ready for her next challenge as one of four marketing controllers appointed after the branch strategy review — in at the deep end again . |
| 10 | The Jacobites used a simple cipher in private correspondence — a reference to Frederick being attached to Patricia , for example , meant that Mar was still loyal to James — but this presented little difficulty to the British code-breakers , as one Jacobite warned another : |
| 11 | Good form , sportsmanship , amateurism and other long-forgotten traditions meant that success was relatively unimportant , provided one behaved properly , an attitude summed up perfectly by the poet Kipling in his poem ‘ If … ’ which still hangs , largely unread , over Wimbledon 's Centre Court . |
| 12 | Refrigeration was in its infancy , so that perishable goods just had to be sold which meant that prices were gradually reduced in the hour or so before closing time . |
| 13 | This meant that farmers were more tied to their farms than in most other European countries . |
| 14 | Recent changes in adult leisure behaviour meant that youths were less likely to be accompanied to the game by older male relatives who had previously ‘ educated ’ them in terms of the appropriate way to behave . |
| 15 | It proved unworkable because the smaller number of enquiries in rural districts meant that experience was never gained and the lack of anonymity within small communities meant that the enquiry rate was unlikely to increase . |
| 16 | It meant that Dorigo was constantly faced by two playesr in defence and attack . |
| 17 | Election to the Congress meant that Kalugin was now immune from prosecution . |
| 18 | None of this meant that diplomats were well paid , if the financial demands still often made on them by their position are considered . |
| 19 | The demanding schedule of a soap meant that Kylie was often working 12 hours a day and spending what little time she had left in the evening reading her script . |
| 20 | Although the so-called Toleration Act of 1689 meant that Dissenters were no longer being persecuted for their beliefs , they were still denied full civil rights , since the continued existence of the Test and Corporation Acts technically banned them from holding political office . |
| 21 | This meant that people were no longer willing to put up with unsatisfactory Church officials ; laymen especially were developing a personal spirituality which gave them a new confidence and commitment to their faith and which also enabled them to form an independent view of theology and Church organisation ; they no longer had to rely on the educated establishment . |
| 22 | This meant that people were less likely to be lost to follow-up , because reviews were more likely to take place . |
| 23 | New developments in the production of clothing and footwear , involving the manufacture of cheap commodities for a mass market , meant that people were better clothed and also that they had a purchase on ‘ style ’ — including , as we shall see , ‘ youth styles ’ . |
| 24 | So they were both back and that meant that Jasper was too . |
| 25 | The change with the founding of the Royal Institution ( and then elsewhere ) to lecturers who were active in research meant that audiences were sometimes exposed to questions rather than answers . |
| 26 | New technologies meant that workers were no longer needed in such numbers , in many of the older industrial areas especially . |
| 27 | Moreover , the insatiable desire of Wall Street , the City and the commercial banks for a share of the action meant that finance was rarely a bar . |
| 28 | The Americans assumed it meant that Saddam was there . |
| 29 | The greater abundance of iron ores over those of copper also meant that iron was more readily obtainable and cheaper . |
| 30 | Her own approach as a judge is she feels specific to her and that does not mean that women are specially suited to family law . |