Example sentences of "mean that [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This does not , however , mean that they then take up identical positions in relation to the problem of history . |
| 2 | ‘ I mean that we still follow the old custom of behaving courteously to our family and friends . |
| 3 | This mean that he probably do not wish to play as a central defender in the english premiership — central defenders in england are seldom allowed/seen going forward and ronny feels after playing three reserve games for spurs ( which is supposed to be a playing team … ) that this kind of futba does not suit him … so i guess he will be staying here — most of the top norw. players just think of one thing now — USA'94 and to be among the 24 that are travelling — and they choose club out from this : ie how much play will i get at my new club — better be going to a low-profile club in the premiership than a high profile club where i might have to sit on the bench ( Flo , Nilsen ( Sheff Utd ) , Halle , Pedersen ( Oldham ) , Fjortoft ( Swindon ) — will gets lot of play this winter — whereas players like Bjornebye ( Liverpool ) , Lydersen , ( Arsenal ) and Strandli ( Leeds ) struggle to keep/get places in their teams . |
| 4 | The Serbian Volunteers were a force recruited under the puppet government of Gen Nedic to serve Serbian interests , although this meant that they frequently had to act in concert with the Germans . |
| 5 | Yet this meant that they also wanted to transcend the limitations of the Greek achievement in the light of the new faith . |
| 6 | Furthermore , the idea the Egyptians had of an eternal and immutable world meant that they never imagined any evolution of social conditions . |
| 7 | This , he claimed , meant that they sometimes had to act more rather than less on their own initiative . |
| 8 | All this meant that I no longer felt personally responsible for separatism . |
| 9 | My activities had no goal and no aspiration , and I had no competitors , which meant that I rapidly acquired the confidence of the leadership of the Labour Party . |
| 10 | The time spent travelling across the city meant that you often did n't bother to meet up . |
| 11 | Promotion to officer class meant that he no longer had time to care for his own litters . |
| 12 | Family commitments now meant that he just did the occasional Cowes Week and Club Race . |
| 13 | The sense of injury Vitor felt over Thomas meant that he also considered her to be devious and untrustworthy , wickedness on two legs . |
| 14 | I suspect Bunny probably meant that he once knew a Swedish waitress , but I let it pass . |
| 15 | This meant that he never fought them on his own terms , always theirs , and it blinded him to the realisation that when all else failed , when all the appeals for ‘ fair play ’ fell on stony ground , that he could have utilised his mass following of workers to shake the ground beneath the Empire . |
| 16 | ‘ He was so busy worryin' over what ‘ antiquarian ’ meant that he hardly glanced at our visas . |
| 17 | His sister 's connections in the publishing world meant that he quickly made contacts . |
| 18 | Illness meant that he gradually relinquished active control of his firm to his son ; Stanford 's London Atlas of Universal Geography … |
| 19 | Horsley was being slowly crippled by a rare type of paralysis spreading from his ankle , which meant that he now had to walk with a stick , and which it was feared would eventually put him in a wheelchair . |
| 20 | She was bright and she was presentable , which meant that she already scored on two counts over the help that they 'd hired last year . |
| 21 | Clare 's newfound , short-term leisure meant that she now enjoyed cooking instead of seeing it as an added , rushed , three-times-a-day chore to fit in around earning her living . |
| 22 | That and the rain , which stained the concrete a dirty brown , gave the place a deserted look even during term-time , but the fact that it was so close to London meant that it really was deserted at the weekends as students and staff headed for the bright lights . |
| 23 | He agrees that we can ask what justifies these beliefs ; but to do so would mean that we no longer treated them as having this special status . |
| 24 | If not does it mean that we only have Dorigo on the left . |
| 25 | The demonstration that such tasks can involve controlled processes does not mean that they always do , even tasks at the operational level may be performed as controlled processes , for example , when starting to drive an unusual vehicle . |
| 26 | Indeed , he may not mean that they ever are received in their simplicity . |
| 27 | While societies do themselves construct devices for specialising and separating out levels of meaning , this does not mean that they ever achieve in reality the claims that they make about such discourse . |
| 28 | But the fact that an error can be explained , even an unavoidable error , does not mean that it thereby ceases to be an error . |
| 29 | If a batch of a product is close to the specification limit in respect of any parameter at the time of manufacture then even a slight change may mean that it no longer complies with its specification , so that its effective shelf-life is very short . |
| 30 | It is worth bearing in mind , however , that the de-criminalising of an activity ( the removing of an activity from the scope of criminal law ) does not mean that it necessarily becomes generally accepted . |