Example sentences of "it [modal v] mean that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The term " user-friendly " is often misused but related to software for use in schools , it should mean that pupils of different ability and reading levels should be able to understand instructions and where possible , help messages should be fitted into the program . |
| 2 | At its most absurd it might mean that companies could be sued for sending letters to the wrong address . |
| 3 | It might mean that the same ten pupils were absent for the whole week ; or it might mean that overall , five pupils were absent for a whole week , plus two pupils absent for two days , plus 21 pupils absent for one day . |
| 4 | Tess thought a good deal about the baptism , however , and wondered if it might mean that Sorrow could be buried in the churchyard , with a church service . |
| 5 | And , she thought with relief , if new evidence had turned up in France , it might mean that Veronica had had nothing to do with her husband 's death . |
| 6 | Was that because it could mean that Britain would have to increase the amount that we spend on overseas aid and development to match the contributions of other European countries ? |
| 7 | If such a telephone call was recorded by the person receiving it then it could mean that Reggie Kray had not broken any prison rules . |
| 8 | And in so doing , we must , of course , be aware of the risk of setting a standard which goes so far that it would mean that others — for example , the senile or the mentally handicapped , whom we would wish to treat if they were ill — were also included by it . |
| 9 | If so , it would mean that photoreception had been re-established . |
| 10 | We would regret having to choose complete independence , because it would mean that boys of ability from poorer homes could not afford to enter the School . |
| 11 | It would mean that courts appoint teams of probation officers , drawn from a pool of accountants , lawyers , engineers , mechanics , chemists , physicists , management scientists , and so on , and selected to meet the requirements of each situation . |
| 12 | and if we divvied up the exam fee on a fifty per cent basis it would mean that B A I E were getting twenty quid for doing nothing but probably more twenty quids than they would get normally because students who would be attracted in through Napier would be paying their forty quid as well |
| 13 | In other words it would mean that battles could be won which people have previously thought could not even be fought . |
| 14 | It will mean that customers wo n't have to re-write their applications to take advantage of clustering . |
| 15 | She says it will mean that women 's representation at Oxford will be reduced and it 's not even equal at the moment . |
| 16 | It can mean that theory must be destabilised — ‘ destabilising ’ as something to be done to theory . |