Example sentences of "[noun sg] mean [conj] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | For too many , the lack of financial security , savings and a clear future mean that they have to live at subsistence level . |
| 2 | The emergence of Scotland as a lineout side meant that they could play a different sort of game , and this abundance of possession has enabled Craig Chalmers to play some very assured football . |
| 3 | Their natural ability to infiltrate woods and move quickly through dense undergrowth means that they can accomplish tasks which would be impossible to Men . |
| 4 | This liking for old gear means that they both spend a lot of time hunting it down , as Bryan explains … |
| 5 | All heroes are in some measure anti-heroes , after all , if the term means that they are opposed to some antiquated sense of heroism that their creators are eager to question or discredit . |
| 6 | The very nature of their distress means that they are likely to be unable to go out and face the social whirl , at least initially . |
| 7 | This high turnover means that they come on to the unemployment register for short periods and so distort the figures . |
| 8 | The process of extra-cellular digestion means that they are liquid feeders and produce very little in the way of solid faeces . |
| 9 | The overriding criterion of speed means that they have to be written in a traditional programming language , such as FORTRAN . |
| 10 | Will the vast sums of money which are being asked for by the Governing Bodies of Sport mean that they will price themselves out of the market or will television continue to pay as they compete for audiences ? |
| 11 | Sources close to the couple said yesterday 's admission of the problems coupled with the pact meant that they would not separate — at least for the moment . |
| 12 | The technical nature of the work meant that they could not be expected to check it had been satisfactorily done . |
| 13 | In addition , the fact that women are less mobile than men and more confined to the home means that they are less likely to be exposed to situations which lack effective informal social controls . |
| 14 | Objectives are usually very general to begin with , and the non-directive nature of the work means that they are defined as the work goes on . |
| 15 | Therefore it may be advantageous to sole traders or partners whose incomes from the business mean that they are taxed under Schedule D at a higher rate to convert the business into a company to minimize the amount of tax to be paid out of the profits made . |
| 16 | The absence of soft earth , the rain in the night and Mrs. Bidwell 's efficient cleaning meant that they would be lucky to find any evidence of a climb . |
| 17 | The successful outcome means that they intend to repeat it next year . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , it is good news because the deep involvement of many clients in the building procurement process means that they are seldom entirely blameless when things go wrong . |
| 19 | ‘ The way retailers are running their businesses at the moment means that they are never overstaffed . |
| 20 | Modern methods of butchery militate against this ; drenching freshly slaughtered carcases in water means that they spoil more quickly , and weight-loss achieved as the meat hangs means less profit . |
| 21 | However , their high oil content means that they ‘ spoil ’ quickly , so buy them in small quantities . |
| 22 | These were ‘ renewals ’ which in theory meant that they replaced old coaches , possibly ones dating from the start of the ‘ narrow ’ gauge . |
| 23 | By describing the polytechnics as ‘ comprehensive ’ , the 1966 White Paper meant that they should provide both degree and sub-degree courses ; post-graduate and post-experience courses ; full-time and part-time courses ; and a wide range of short courses . |
| 24 | The post-war commitment to full-employment increased their bargaining power ; the strike weapon in the context of a complex and interdependent economy meant that they could exert considerable pressure " through their capacity to disrupt and delay ; and as inflation came to be seen as the problem ( and as a problem caused by " excessive " wages demands backed by strikes ) so trade unions found themselves in a new position of strategic importance and power . |
| 25 | I assure him that those constituents who seek help from our staff in the Huddersfield jobcentre , and in other jobcentres throughout the country , will find that the charter means that they can identify the people with whom they are dealing because they are wearing name identification badges . |
| 26 | Their delicate character and the fact that they accompanied a woman means that they can hardly be interpreted literally as weapons . |
| 27 | But egalitarian feminists ' dependency on traditional psychological theory means that they often reproduce its limited formulations of subjectivity and gender . |
| 28 | Ambivalence means that they both loved , admired , revered and desired to emulate him while simultaneously hating and fearing him and wishing to be rid of him . |
| 29 | No one asked that question , they simply focused upon er the , the communist insurrection in the south and the American , American commitment to the global containment of communism meant that they had to go and do something about it and domestic political pressures were there too er President Kennedy came out of the Cuban missiles crisis a hero because his people mistakenly believed that he 'd won a foreign policy success and that he 'd acted in a restrained and statesmanlike manor . |
| 30 | For centuries the continual struggle of ordinary country folk to harvest an income to keep them and their families above starvation level meant that they were always prepared to swallow their pride and go , cap in hand , to the gentry for a few vital coppers The same philosophy spawned the hiring fairs ( which continued until the second half of the century ) when the ‘ spare ’ children of rural ( and sometimes urban ) families , not required for work at home , were sent to stand at appointed places where prospective employers could examine and interrogate them checking their limbs for strength and making sure they were properly subservient There was n't a deal of difference , fundamentally , between hiring fairs ( as immortalized by Thomas Hardy in Far From the Madding Crowd and the weekly cattle auctions held in market towns . |