Example sentences of "mean [that] he be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How that might change his nature , there 's the question ’ mean that he is determined to become emperor , and if he did , he may well become a tyrant and abuse his power , although he seems very noble at the moment . |
| 2 | These external pressures meant that he was writing " Little Gidding " quickly but mechanically ; the material was not properly seasoned and the first version of the poem lacked the presence of concealed private memories which would make the language cohere . |
| 3 | Gatsby decides to take the blame and pretend that he had been driving and take whatever punishment comes , which in the end meant that he was shot by the dead woman 's husband . |
| 4 | Nun decided that Nut , the sky goddess , in the shape of a cow , should take Re and carry him above the earth , although this meant that he was seen only in the day and the earth became dark at night . |
| 5 | The outbreak of war in 1914 meant that he was regarded as an alien in Britain , though he was soon allowed to move to Rome , where he joined the senate . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | His time in the ATC meant that he was targeted for the Air Force . |
| 8 | He had , of course , given up cigarettes by the time he had gone into the clinic , but as a result he had abandoned the puritanical principles inculcated into him in youth and had started eating sweets instead ; and this meant that he was putting on weight . |
| 9 | Mr Hakim 's main reason for leaving was that he felt Robson Rhodes ' drive to concentrate on upmarket accounts meant that he was losing personal contact with many of his smaller clients . |
| 10 | But this does not mean that he is advocating head-hunting . |
| 11 | Once or twice lately he 's mentioned the possibility that he might ‘ change his way of life ’ which could mean that he intended to get married , but with Francis it could equally mean that he was thinking of taking up golf or ludo . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ You ca n't mean that he was murdered ? ’ |
| 13 | Public activity of this kind was , he said , a kind of sedative — no doubt to counteract feelings of uselessness — but it did mean that he was forced to postpone any creative work . |
| 14 | I hope that that unclarity means that he is moving towards us . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | This means that he is protected against any action of defamation provided he speaks in good faith and without malice ( Beach v. Freeson ( H.C. , 1972 ) ) , and provided there is a common interest between the parties . |
| 18 | It means that he was acting as the Messiah , for ‘ to do good ’ is a Messianic action . |
| 19 | " It means that he was floating pretty well down — that he was sinking , but not quite sunk . |
| 20 | Eduardo Villaseñor of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party ( PRI ) , who had been inaugurated in September as governor of the western state of Michoacán [ see p. 39089 ] , asked on Oct. 6 for a " one-year leave of absence " , a form of words effectively meaning that he was resigning . |