Example sentences of "that mean [be] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What that means is that NHS hospitals will be resourced according to the number of patients they treat . |
| 2 | Typically in the open ocean situation sea water contains thirty fives parts per thousand of salt , usually expressed as that symbol , sometimes you 'll see it written as parts per thousand P P T and what that means is that there are thirty five grams of salt per kilogram of water and that 's usually given the symbol S and is referred to as the salinity . |
| 3 | I was referred to R.S.C. , Ord. 55 , r. 3 which refers to the appeal being by way of rehearing , but that of course is the same phrase as is used in R.S.C. , Ord. 59 which states that appeals to the Court of Appeal are by way of rehearing and , to put it shortly , without quoting from the note to that rule , it is plain that all that means is that the Court of Appeal has a wide ranging power to consider and deal with the way in which the court below came to its decision but it is not empowered to hear evidence , except in certain exceptional circumstances : see , too , Rayden and Jackson on Divorce and Family Matters , 16th ed. ( 1991 ) , p. 1388 , para. 49.2 . |
| 4 | All that means is that he puts the letters into a plastic bag so they wo n't get eaten by beetles or woodworm or whatever . |
| 5 | ‘ But all that means is that I know damn well what not to do . |
| 6 | ‘ All that means is that he 's your latest disciple . ’ |
| 7 | Now what that means is that you 've admitted the offence which you were arrested for which is er |
| 8 | What that means is that if you have a spontaneous abortion , you 're much more likely to abort a male than you are to abort a female . |
| 9 | Now and that 's for my benefit alone okay , what that means is that I 'll see each and every one of you in a , a role play so the first person in each role play will be Robert , Barry and Gareth , followed by Gill , , followed by Bill , Roger and Vincent and Robert again you do not deviate from that order . |
| 10 | the first thing that we , we , we would respect is and suggest and this is a course which has been offered erm , erm , in order of other cases , er , we should ask that the er because of the adjournment necessary for investigation , the , the money will attract interest and we would ask for an order that the erm , the plaintiff is entitled to interest at the special account rate on any lump sum hereafter ordered to be paid , now what that means is that if at the end of the day the instruction say goes off and the conventional lump sum order is made , we are entitled to interest on the whole of that lump sum , if on the other hand a structured settlement is put into position and er part is either applied to the purchase of the annuities , in the commercial way to try and settle it or taken it back by the health authority , in consideration for self funding structured settlement , then we would only get the interest on the actual cash we have been kept |
| 11 | Well all that means is that you just have n't got on with him so far , or you have n't quite found the right way to get on with that person yet . |
| 12 | What that means is that when you 're facing up to foreign situations , you tend to pull together you tend not to divide you tend not to emphasise the differences between you . |
| 13 | What that means is that there 's a whole new way of thinking about what sorts of tasks can people actually use computers to do so the offices of the future may well have no typewriters , but just micro computers tied into an information system , and that presents , I think , great problems for people . |
| 14 | All that means is that the original form was present in the rest of the Rift Valley during this period , never went extinct , and has now come into the lake again and has either made extinct , or in some other way swamped out the local form . |
| 15 | Now what that means is that we have what we call an agency budget . |