Example sentences of "means [that] it [is] [not/n't] " in BNC.

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1 No it means that it is n't a wide driveage it means it 's a narrow one .
2 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 .
3 This means that it is not only effective for those who suffer from spinal disorders but in the treatment of many other conditions too .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 This means that it is not necessary to oil them regularly .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 This condition is mostly dealt with in the community , which often means that it is not dealt with at all .
12 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 .
13 This means that it is not enough simply to make SMEs aware of sources of technology or of development programmes which are underway .
14 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 .
15 Rescission is an equitable remedy which means that it is not available if that would be unfair .
16 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 .
17 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 .
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