Example sentences of "means [conj] it [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | it means that it 's just , it 's a realization of , of the progression of communism is to establish a capitalist phase . |
| 2 | That means that it 's practically impossible for a landowner to enforce restrictions unless you 're setting fire to his house or driving a JCB over his grouse moor . |
| 3 | The kick up design at the top of the rudder means that it 's particularly easy to fit on the beach . |
| 4 | Three to one , four to one , that simply means that it 's that much easier to pull everything in . |
| 5 | This means that it is wholly braided as distinct from the type which has a central core of twist . |
| 6 | While many of these ideas have lost some of their tenacity , the length of life of the housing stock and the sluggishness of change in urban structure means that it is particularly difficult to change house design to conform to changes in the position of women in society in general and the family in particular . |
| 7 | No it means that it is n't a wide driveage it means it 's a narrow one . |
| 8 | But I also think that er the Community Charge as it is being brought in is probably being brought in too sharply which means that it is n't actually taking account of some of the marginal cases where people are going to face a very steep increase in Community Charge bill , er and the Community Charge itself is rather a blunt instrument . |
| 9 | where the bar over the V term means that it is exogenously determined : i.e. determined independently of M. |
| 10 | The plume of smoke is safely confined to the lower atmosphere , which means that it is soon mixed with fresh air and removed from the sky by rain . |
| 11 | That was the 1988 development value but the state of London 's housing market means that it is probably worth only half that today — and Chelsea is naturally reluctant to pay . |
| 12 | This means that it is not only effective for those who suffer from spinal disorders but in the treatment of many other conditions too . |
| 13 | Crocodiles are being preserved in some parts of the world by farming them , because that means that it is not so worthwhile to go out and kill the wild ones . |
| 14 | This means that it is not necessary to know the total number of items in advance , because each item is a separately allocated piece of memory . |
| 15 | This means that it is not necessary to oil them regularly . |
| 16 | Whilst operating systems as distinct as Unix SVR4 and DEC 's OpenVMS embrace the Posix standard , each has thousands of other calls beyond the specific Posix requirement , says Price , which means that it is not sufficient just to port an application to Posix and assume that it will then run on any Posix-compliant system , because it wo n't . |
| 17 | This means that it is not necessary to reject totalization as such — because such a rejection assumes its very possibility , whereas all attempts at totalization such as Sartre 's demonstrate rather its impossibility . |
| 18 | The huge quantity of works which are the responsibility of the Soprintendenza means that it is not possible for all restoration campaigns to be carried out by in-house staff . |
| 19 | This means that it is not necessary to require that the wavefunction is unchanged by the interchange of two identical particles but simply to specify that if it does change it does so in one of these trivial , physically equivalent , ways . |
| 20 | This condition is mostly dealt with in the community , which often means that it is not dealt with at all . |
| 21 | The fact that this lead time can be substantially reduced under special circumstances means that it is not impossible to produce books much more quickly . |
| 22 | This means that it is not enough simply to make SMEs aware of sources of technology or of development programmes which are underway . |
| 23 | In his introduction to part ( 1 of Critique et vérité Barthes argues that the degree of critical self-consciousness in literature means that it is not possible to draw a clear distinction between criticism and literature . |
| 24 | Rescission is an equitable remedy which means that it is not available if that would be unfair . |
| 25 | But the abnormally dry soil means that it is not until late January that the ground becomes saturated enough for the rainfall to start percolating through to the aquifers . |
| 26 | This also means that it is not possible to compare the dissociation from isolated GC sites with that from clusters of such sites which may be stabilised by cooperative interaction . |
| 27 | This means that it is equally easy to evolve from any one to any other one . |
| 28 | And the firm 's dominant share of the country 's group-life insurance and pensions market means that it is well placed to make money as private pension plans expand to supplement over-stretched state retirement schemes . |
| 29 | The perceived decrease in the public 's generosity means that it is even more important for businesses , and I mean all business , not just the larger ones that have traditionally provided the pool of resource , to realise that their businesses would only succeed within a healthy society , and a healthy society means the support of business men and business women . |
| 30 | Classical democracy 's belief in the self-regulation of the individual is recognised as theoretically valid , but the legacy of aristocratic colonial politics means that it is highly restricted in practice . |