Example sentences of "mean that [pron] have [prep] " in BNC.

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1 To be supporting people at a time of impending loss does not of itself mean that we have to be doing ‘ counselling ’ .
2 Being aware and feeling love for mankind can not — and should not — mean that you have to be totally submissive .
3 Although the seriousness of the crime meant that the youths had been tried as adults , the fact that all were under 16 years of age at the time of the attack ( April 1989 ) meant that they had to be sentenced as juveniles .
4 ‘ The variety of work which included anything from milk quotas to mortgage repossessions , meant that I had to be practical and adapt quickly .
5 Fortunately it became necessary for me to accompany the well-known Solveig 's Song on a dulcitone , which meant that I had to be close beside her in the wings .
6 Her strong competitive streak also meant that she had to be the most outrageous , the most rebellious and the most indisciplined girl in school .
7 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 .
8 And if Pound so blithely overlooks that difference , does n't that mean that we have in him a critic who attends to form , to style , at the expense of what that form and that style are used so as to convey ?
9 The armoured or plated dinosaurs include some species that seem too heavily burdened with protective armour to have been very active , but this does not necessarily mean that they had to be cold-blooded .
10 Being HIV positive or having AIDS does not mean that there have to be any major changes to the home environment .
11 But this does not mean that it has to be uninformed and makeshift .
12 While levels of poverty show no sign of falling , the fact that life is financially poor for many does not mean that it has to be solitary , as Mr. Hobbes has suggested .
13 Heuristic information ( that is , suggestions about how best to search ) is often more easily exploited when the language is enlarged , but that does not necessarily mean that it has to be made more expressive .
14 This does n't mean that it has to be quantitative , but rather that there is a clear relationship between the understanding being sought and the information collected , or selected for review , so that there is no inbuilt bias which would prejudge the outcome .
15 This does n't mean that it has to be quantitative , but rather that there is a clear relationship between the understanding being sought and the information collected , or selected for review , so that there is no inbuilt bias which would prejudge the outcome .
16 This last point does not necessarily mean that you have to be using a page description language but , for the moment at least , it amounts to the same thing .
17 However , joining does n't mean that you have to be doing research , registration is open to those who are ‘ just interested ’ or ‘ thinking about it ’ .
18 Under the Transport Act 1985 , local authorities had a duty to pay regard to the transport needs of the elderly and disabled , but merely having to pay regard to those needs does not mean that anything has to be done about the specifications that have been laid down by the disabled persons transport advisory committee .
19 Apart from its limited spatial resolution the main disadvantage of this technique is that , for it to be safe , it has to be done with isotopes with extraordinarily short half-lives and that means that they have to be prepared on site .
20 The overriding criterion of speed means that they have to be written in a traditional programming language , such as FORTRAN .
21 The pressure ‘ head ’ normally needed for operating an instantaneous water heater , typically 10m or 15psi ( pounds per square inch ) , means that they have to be connected to the mains .
22 This means that we have to be doubly careful to ensure that multicultural mathematics does not become a second-class mathematics curriculum for multiracial urban schools .
23 Unfortunately this means that we have to muck out the stables every day .
24 The politics of the situation probably means that it has to be sensitive to the traditional concerns of the governments themselves but it also has to provide strong arguments for deviations from generally accepted accounting principles for business .
25 There is a commonly held fallacy that taking control of your life in any way , be it in terms of changed food intake , exercise , or anything else , means that you have to be extra-strict and rigid in your approach .
26 Having twin and matched secondary windings clearly makes a mains transformer very versatile , but it also means that you have to be rather more careful when wiring it up .
27 ‘ And that means that you have to be better than the next man to be considered half as good .
28 It means that there has to be some violence used against the woman to overbear her will or that there has to be a threat of violence as a result of which her will is overborne . ’
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