Example sentences of "meant [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even his extraordinarily fecund language struggled to reassert the recollection : ‘ the ideal couple , ’ ‘ the beautiful inspiration , ’ ‘ illusion and reality , ’ ( by which he meant that it was simply too good to be true ; too perfect to last — a forbidding afterthought ) . |
| 2 | But it was a universal grant , which meant that it went equally to the millionaire 's widow and to the widow who had very little . |
| 3 | The rising water , filling the channel , meant that it was not difficult to reach Simon from the Lock gates . |
| 4 | From its first meeting it was also identified with the anti-slavery movement and this meant that it did not establish itself in America , where many religious leaders were wary of too close an identification with such a divisive issue . |
| 5 | The party of the workers fell in behind the policy of foreign bankers , which meant that it fell in behind high unemployment caused by high interest rates . |
| 6 | The LEA decision meant that it was unlikely that any new centre would enter a three-year commitment without a preliminary period of less demanding study and consequently , the Norfolk scheme tapered to its end . |
| 7 | the existence of coal , iron ore and a large population assisted the economies , but that large population meant that it was necessary to import from overseas quantities of food at an ever increasing cost , particularly as Europe suffered a succession of bad harvests , at that time , and that led to emigration overseas , mainly to the United States of America . |
| 8 | Although it was relatively ineffective , the fact that it was considerably safer than mercury meant that it remained in the pharmacopoeia of many countries until the twentieth century . |
| 9 | This meant that it could not be used if it was the result of a ‘ fear of prejudice or hope of advantage , exercised or held out by a person in authority ’ or if it was occasioned by ‘ oppression ’ . |
| 10 | As for Carol herself , she was quite prepared to recall the incident if it meant that it would help to convict the rapist . |
| 11 | In 1795 , after a severe winter and the failure of many crops , the price of provisions soared to an unprecedented height ; the price of wheat in London was 108 shillings a quarter : and this meant that it was impossible to buy bread , even if it were obtainable . |
| 12 | The fact that the amount due to them was disputed meant that it was uncertain whether they had reached the point beyond which they might be considered trespassers by dealing with B and L's goods . |
| 13 | The angle of the glacier meant that it could only hover , one ski touching the slope . |
| 14 | In 1981 Bangladesh 's estimated population of 90,630,000 people meant that it was ranked as the eighth largest country in the world ( by population ) , and the fifth largest developing country . |
| 15 | However , deficiencies in the ability of the study to accurately record information on the cause of death meant that it could not be shown whether or not the reduction in mortality had been due to a reduction in diarrhoea-related deaths and hence due to the programme . |
| 16 | However , the costs of building and of providing the necessary infrastructure together with planning restrictions meant that it was less than ideal . |
| 17 | This meant that it could not be revoked , a view with which , for instance , West German courts have agreed . |
| 18 | More self-knowledge meant that it was easier to see man as one natural object among many . |
| 19 | Its Durkheimian origin meant that it suffered at the outset from the more general problems of Durkheim 's functionalist approach . |
| 20 | Yet the links between the provincial and the national press meant that it would be complicated , if not illogical , to allow investment by the former but not by the latter . |
| 21 | This qualification of support for the replacement of Friern and Claybury meant that it fell back upon regional officers , once again , to decide whether to go ahead with the initiative , or to abandon it . |
| 22 | To the last , Foucault himself remained suspicious of any ‘ progressive politics , if that meant that it continued to be linked to a ( hidden ) meaning , origin , or the subject . |
| 23 | They also thought that pressures from other commitments meant that it would be impossible to provide the sort of supervision recommended or free the house officers to take advantage of the scheme . |
| 24 | Similarly , inadequate information about the siting of the jetty at Rothera meant that it had to be redesigned and repositioned at a relatively late stage , at an additional cost of £2 million . |
| 25 | Under the Angevins , it has been argued , ‘ the legal relationship between a king of France and a king of England who held territories on the continent meant that it was relatively easy for the king of France to legitimize his own actions as part of a legal process ’ . |
| 26 | All these facts concerning the particular mechanisms of the paper industry added together meant that it was quite unlikely that Rembrandt would buy two batches of paper prepared by the same paper mill using the same mould . |
| 27 | There were several reasons for this : the delicate state of recovery within the economy meant that it would be foolish to contemplate a significant defence burden falling on Japanese shoulders ; the question of Japan 's future foreign policy was extremely contentious within the country and there was vocal hostility to any suggestion of reviving an active or adventurous approach to foreign matters ; furthermore Yoshida had personally suffered at the hands of the military and had no wish to see the old guard of the Japanese armed forces making a come-back . |
| 28 | This accurate boring mill also meant that it was easy to convert the engine to a double acting one , i.e. one where the piston is pushed both ways in the cylinder . |
| 29 | As Brian Harrison has pointed out , the peculiar nature of the problem as conceived by the moral reformers — as an individual moral failing from which social consequences flowed — meant that it was difficult to evolve administrative machinery to carry out their aims . |
| 30 | Despite his phenomenal energy the sheer size of his dominions inevitably meant that it could be months or even years before he was free to deal with a distant crisis or give his officials the support they needed against a major local potentate . |