Example sentences of "mean that they [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the seriousness of the crime meant that the youths had been tried as adults , the fact that all were under 16 years of age at the time of the attack ( April 1989 ) meant that they had to be sentenced as juveniles . |
| 2 | The slow rate of industrial growth in France and relative lag within an industrialising Europe at the formative period of trade unions meant that they consisted of relatively skilled workers employed in comparatively small-scale enterprises . |
| 3 | And these were n't any old typefaces , they were Linotype 's which meant that they conformed to the highest typographic standards the industry was likely to require . |
| 4 | — The question of job swaps was not clear in Tim 's paper — for example for Area Secretaries it meant that they wanted to job swap they could do so by moving region |
| 5 | I do n't mean that they went on strike , it was well , ‘ let them buggers do it-they 're the ones in the position let them do it ’ . |
| 6 | This did not mean that ideas and values came from some supernatural source , but it did mean that they came from the history of society , not the history of the individual . |
| 7 | The armoured or plated dinosaurs include some species that seem too heavily burdened with protective armour to have been very active , but this does not necessarily mean that they had to be cold-blooded . |
| 8 | This does not mean that they speak with one voice — the press has often either been critical or published critical opinions — but there is clearly a limit to government tolerance . |
| 9 | Pupils are taught on a block system , which means that they concentrate on one particular activity for a certain number of weeks , then move on to a different activity . |
| 10 | For the families and individuals this means that they depend for their electricity on what they can generate for themselves , grow much of their own food and recycle their own wastes . |
| 11 | This means that they talk about the Devil , but they 're not born-again Christians : in this case , the geezer with the goat 's eyes and barbed tail is the white man . |
| 12 | Apart from its limited spatial resolution the main disadvantage of this technique is that , for it to be safe , it has to be done with isotopes with extraordinarily short half-lives and that means that they have to be prepared on site . |
| 13 | The overriding criterion of speed means that they have to be written in a traditional programming language , such as FORTRAN . |
| 14 | The pressure ‘ head ’ normally needed for operating an instantaneous water heater , typically 10m or 15psi ( pounds per square inch ) , means that they have to be connected to the mains . |