Example sentences of "meant [conj] [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also as usual , none of the shells survived the flood when the dam burst ; the ! all sank , which meant that everybody died . |
| 2 | The entire house was infested with mice which meant that everybody was in constant battle against their droppings and their smell . |
| 3 | Enthusiasm for the content of the materials — especially in lower primary classes — was still clearly evident and at state level there was considerable resolve to maintain aspects of the new curriculum and the closer supervision it entailed in at least some schools , despite the challenge of universal primary education which effectively meant that everyone had to try to do more with less . |
| 4 | This meant that everyone lived near to one another , and they copied each other exactly . |
| 5 | However , the eddy in the pool meant that nothing was lost . |
| 6 | I thought McAllister played quite poorly and with Strachan having a quiet game , this meant that nothing much was happening in midfield . |
| 7 | I assumed , in my usual mechanistic way that that meant that everything that looked like being cancerous had been cut out . |
| 8 | Bushey Studios , in Hertfordshire , gave Crawford his first taste of acting for the big screen , although the thrills and spills in Soapbox Derby meant that plenty of fun was had at various locations in and around London . |
| 9 | The radical changes which had taken place in England during the previous fifty years meant that something new must be tried . |
| 10 | A loss of compression on both cylinders of the Volvo Penta MD7a — plus some very black sump oil — meant that something was happening inside the engine , and certainly 11 years had taken their toll on the paint on the outside of the block . |
| 11 | Which meant that something else , apart from the defence of Silvia , had provoked her own furious outburst yesterday evening . |
| 12 | The everyday school uniform , now useless , meant that one had hardly anything to wear ! |
| 13 | That meant that one would expect , close by the walls , dilapidated streets and ruinous houses , robbed out for their stone . |
| 14 | The receipt of a writ of summons to Parliament meant that one was a peer . |
| 15 | And as this 18-day tour package cost R12,500 it meant that one was stuck with a situation where the cost of entry to five matches in France , Scotland , the Cardiff third-place match and the Final at Twickers , around which the tour package was structured , amount to R2,500 , or £500 a game . |
| 16 | In the Middle Ages these mills were the property of the lord of the manor who possessed ‘ soke rights ’ , which meant that anyone growing corn on his manor was obliged to have it ground at the lord 's mill because hand mills were outlawed . |
| 17 | Far above on the moor we could see some new machinery which meant that someone was working out the tailings for spar and barytes for the North Sea oil industry where they 're used in the drilling Processes . |
| 18 | Everyone had a vague idea of what it meant but none could precisely have defined it . |