Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [adv] mean [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Feynman has said , we are asked to believe that the historian who makes a statement about Napoleon simply means that there are books in libraries which make assertions similar to his own . |
| 2 | However , a 90:10 deal after costs also means that every expense is borne in that proportion . |
| 3 | Years of dictatorship also meant that officials in athletic circles had very little grasp on reality . |
| 4 | The curvature of space–time also means that identical clocks at different gravitational potentials must run at different rates . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The creation of a family of marriage usually means that , in Western societies at least , a " household " will be established . |
| 7 | This consistency of sound effectively means that your choice of instrument is determined by your preference for number of strings or , maybe more likely , price . |
| 8 | The subsequent shift of focus southwards meant that his descendants became yet more distant and therefore more insignificant-seeming figures to those influential writers whose field of vision was restricted to the Anglo-Norman realm on either side of the Channel . |
| 9 | Even when members of occupational schemes , women 's length of membership generally means that the level of benefit payable will be inferior to men . |
| 10 | The low level of ICA also means that many carers will still have to ‘ top up ’ the benefit with means-tested income support — if they are eligible . |
| 11 | The Benefit was an unqualified success , which was the main thing , but asking for the support of hundreds of strangers inevitably meant that the focus of their concern would be on John as well as on the terrible thing that was happening to him . |
| 12 | The use of plastic also means that the ferrule will not rust or discolour . |
| 13 | Changes in lifestyle and increasing numbers of households also mean that more homes will be required . |
| 14 | Security of tenure also means that a landlord may be unable to regain his house , if he wishes to . |
| 15 | The greater abundance of iron ores over those of copper also meant that iron was more readily obtainable and cheaper . |
| 16 | Handfuls of froth simply mean that the manufacturer has added lots of foaming agents . |
| 17 | Rulings made by the European Court of Justice now mean that pension schemes run by employers should not discriminate between men and women on grounds of age , but it is not yet clear what the consequences of these rulings will be . |
| 18 | Lack of finance inevitably meant that the College was understaffed . |
| 19 | The joys of design often mean that there is a tendency to design and attempt to install a totally new system if the old one is seen not to be working particularly well . |
| 20 | The deal with Profix now means that Curtis can now cut delivery times and offer a just-in-time service to its customers . |
| 21 | Making use of equations ( 8.36 ) and ( 8.37 ) , the simplifying condition on can be seen to be equivalent to which in practice simply means that the coil providing impedance must have a high Q-factor . |
| 22 | The fact that you can place objects of the correct size in position also means that the program will help to avoid the heavy work of moving furniture or fixtures and fittings only to find they do n't fit . |
| 23 | The differences in technology also mean that teletext is slower , has a smaller capacity and is less interactive than Prestel . |
| 24 | Changes to pensions now mean that more people have ‘ opted out ’ of the State earnings related pension scheme , and taken out personal pensions . |
| 25 | Staying on at school beyond the school-leaving age involves loss of earnings or benefit , and the absence of grants to 16–18 year olds at school inevitably means that the lower socio-economic groups will be under-represented in this stage of education . |
| 26 | Being book packagers by tradition also means that they immediately grasp the concept of exacting the maximum possible payback from their investments through as many diverse exploitations as possible of their information assets . |