Example sentences of "means [that] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the voting strength of individual ministers in the Council has been irretrievably weakened through erosion of the veto , this means that control by national parliaments has also been irretrievably weakened ’ . |
| 2 | This means that reading the discs requires the paraphernalia of a computer . |
| 3 | This means that express terms are interpreted according to what are known as the " rules of construction " applied to contracts , and these contractual rules apply when attempts are made to imply terms which are needed to make sense of a contract . |
| 4 | However , absence of magnetic flux in the core of the second transformer also means that points P' 1 , X' and P' 2 are virtually at the same potential . |
| 5 | The cultural revolution of the Thatcher years means that managing for results , accountability for outputs , is rapidly becoming the norm in the health service and the new executive agencies . |
| 6 | It did n't sink darling it floated on the top , so we really need that one in there but I tell you what we 'll do , because you 've tr , written it so nicely we 'll put a little arrow and we 'll put there , that means that goes in there , alright , that 's smashing now all you need to do now is write your name on it |
| 7 | Lack of sufficient proportion , clarity or similarity means that clarifying and distinguishing the data is so fraught with excessive difficulty that interest is stultified . |
| 8 | This means that support which in-laws receive from each other is ambiguous in a way which does not apply to other relationships . |
| 9 | This means that looking at the process in an ex-post fashion , the underwriters made a return of 1.11 per cent . |
| 10 | Where there is such a difference , therefore , ‘ the judicial view ’ means that expressed by the Lord Chief Justice . |
| 11 | The dynamic WCOMP term means that lagged relative returns have a negative coefficient . |
| 12 | A similar explanation means that binding to site 5 may occlude binding to site 6 . |
| 13 | This means that to use the node structure from the trie , few routes would be able to be re-used , resulting in a dawg which is little different from the original trie ( figure 3.6 ) . |
| 14 | This means that using a program like WINFAX , you can combine document and data from a variety of Windows applications — a letter from word processing , a graphic from your paint program , a design from DTP , a graph from the spreadsheet etc and send them off in one FAX . |
| 15 | All of this means that hovering in a wind is rather easier , since the ground effect is less marked and the tail is easier to control , despite a small trim change . |
| 16 | The huge difference in size between the drum and oval window means that sounds , particularly low frequencies , are amplified 100 times , instead of just eighteen times as in the human ear . |
| 17 | This extremely loose phrase means that trying to quieten a noisy factory can be a long , complicated and very tiresome business . |
| 18 | As well as looking messy , this means that trying to find the next step in the process is somewhat disruptive of the reading process , and hence , possibly , to retention of the information . |
| 19 | The merger was very demoralizing and I put it , if I remember rightly , top of my list of priorities which means that gets it . |
| 20 | This means that left and right-handed users can safely start and use the saw . |
| 21 | ‘ for the purpose of prostitution ’ Means that loitering or soliciting must be for the purpose of offering her body etc. for reward as outlined at point 2 ante . |
| 22 | The interdependence of criminal justice , where the working of one part has an effect on what happens in the other parts , means that to set off too fast , or prematurely , in a given direction , may lead to unexpected reverses . |
| 23 | This in turn means that multiplying her age by her age equals 900 . |
| 24 | This means that according to the choices made by the user , a particular pathway is followed through the information , with the computer drawing as required on the text , sound , still images and moving video stored on the disc . |
| 25 | Today 's judgement means that banks in future must make sure a spouse or partner is directly informed of risks . |
| 26 | It means that quarks inside a hadron behave almost like free particles in high-energy collisions , so that their perturbations can be treated successfully by perturbation theory . |
| 27 | Kirchhoff 's voltage law for the circuit means that assuming that there is no initial stored energy , that is , that there is no current in the circuit or charge stored on the capacitor at time . |
| 28 | It is traffic-free ( motorised baggage trolleys ) which means that getting there involves a delightful half-hour train journey . |
| 29 | The location of the handle — lower down on the blade — and its angle with respect to the toothline of the saw , means that sawing power is distributed evenly along the whole length of the blade , unlike conventional handsaws . |
| 30 | The threat of greater competition brought about by the trend towards government curtailment of professional monopolies and relaxation of advertising rules means that refusing to contemplate the idea of incorporation could entail a heavy loss of business . |