Example sentences of "that mean " in BNC.
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| 1 | There has been some increase in equity finance , by listed firms as well as new entrants , but it is restrained by a system giving pre-emptive rights to existing shareholders ( as in Britain , shareholders must be given first grabs at new issues ) , under ponderous rules that mean an issue takes three weeks . |
| 2 | It should be noted that there is some evidence from two studies that mean levels of serum cholesterol are higher in subjects with just impaired glucose tolerance than age-matched controls ( Ostrander et al , 1980 ; Yano et al , 1982 ) . |
| 3 | Only order-based summaries such as medians can be transformed in this way ; it is not the case that mean ( log X ) is the same as log ( mean X ) , for example . |
| 4 | Th'bist that mean . ’ |
| 5 | Little things that mean a lot |
| 6 | I mean , I 'm not into things that happen for effect or for taste ; I like doing things that mean something . |
| 7 | In the past the industry has frequently appeared bogged down by the use of a range of technical terms that mean little to potential customers . |
| 8 | In the past the industry has frequently appeared bogged down by the use of a range of technical terms that mean little to potential customers |
| 9 | A problem is that mean values for fertility and survival probability decline with age , which may not necessarily be accounted for by a logarithmic transform . |
| 10 | The arbitrator may decide that The Post Office is not legally liable but that there are special circumstances in your favour that mean you were not really at fault . |
| 11 | Colchester was an engineering base , there 's no doubt about that , there was David Paxmans , you must all about , the great big diesel firm , they did some lovely er diesel engines for the high speed trains which , of course , obviously been superseded by electrics , they used to employ three thousand people and when I started in college we did n't enrol their apprentices on the college site , we went to Paxmans and we enroled one hundred apprentices every year on a five year course , that mean they had a five hundred apprentices in a pool , did n't they , just like that ! |
| 12 | The young man nodded and made as if to move on but John wanted to expunge that mean unspoken and unmeant threat . |
| 13 | Substituting for X in the expression opposite , it will be seen that mean I , /Ap ratios range from 1.25 on shores of Grade 1 ( " Extremely Exposed " on Ballantine 's scale ) to 1.50 on " Extremely Sheltered " Grade 8s . |
| 14 | If you do see a sign like that please , or any words that mean the same thing , like no refunds , no money refunded , no money refunded on sale goods any of those phrases , will you please let Trad your nearest Trading Standards Office know . |
| 15 | ‘ And what the hell does all that mean ? ’ asked Pearce . |
| 16 | All that remains to be said is incised on stone , and the living go around silently with long faces and glances that mean ‘ I ca n't tell you how sorry I am , but I do know how you feel . ’ |
| 17 | And things that mean , or attract , light — flowers , clouds , uniforms with shiny buttons , horse-harness , railway stations , the waves on the shore , the kettle dancing on the stove . |
| 18 | Now we used to clean the bottom up cos used to be a big boiler in the dredger and erm we used to close down every six weeks , which they used to call blow the boiler down , that mean that they open the valve and the heat used to take all the water into the river , so er , that used to be blown down Friday night , come Saturday morning we 'd start at six o'clock and chip all the fur off inside the boiler , cos the boiler was made with all and what we call the crown , that used to be the two furnaces , cos they 're double the big boiler were a double furnace and we had to chip all that fur off them , well it used to take us now from six o'clock in the morning or say seven when we got there had to go down the tug and er go down the tug and erm , then we go aboard and strip off . |
| 19 | It 's a little bit unfair I think as well to generalize , on sponsored members of parliament because , you know as well as I do , on some of the issues that have been very very important to us , not the sort erm , er the sexy issues that head , hit the headlines , but issues that mean a lot to our members , our sponsored members generally do work very , very hard . |
| 20 | The first thing you 've go to do is you 've got to provide services that mean something to everyone at work . |
| 21 | The Labour party has learnt nothing about the deep-seated wish of the British people for local government structures that reflect what they feel about their local communities , and units of government that mean something to them and are not imposed on them . |
| 22 | " We need to save more — expand the pool of capital for the new investments that mean more jobs , more growth … |
| 23 | Similarly : ( 10 ) I only offered her legal advice will , under one natural interpretation , refer to advice on legal matters ; and it will continue to do so even if in some rare case it is given under circumstances that mean it is offered illegally itself , for example if it makes use of secret information stolen from a government which prohibits unauthorized possession or transmission of secret government information ; on the other hand , as a phrase of English , it can perfectly well bear the other interpretation under which it means advice which is itself legal , in the sense that it is legally given , in which case it may concern any subject under the sun . |
| 24 | Multivariate analysis showed that mean corpuscular volume , bilirubin concentrations , and hypoalbuminaemia were independently associated with laminin concentrations . |
| 25 | Finally , the multivariate analysis showed that mean corpuscular volume ( p=0.01 ) , hypoalbuminaemia ( p=0.01 ) , and bilirubin concentrations ( p=0.005 ) were independently associated with serum laminin concentrations , whereas asparate ammotransferase activity and portal hypertension were not . |
| 26 | Dagbladet yesterday brought a table from the spanish first division ( =premier ) with albacete listed even though they were not in the top five : ie they listed the top-five teams some ‘ … ’ and albacete : im quite sure that mean something though nothing more in the papers today . |
| 27 | And it seems to me that this Policy E two is not in line with with strategic guidance and if you 're not if you 're having that are there some special circumstances that mean that you have to explain particularly what it is that you you have to do . |
| 28 | Nothing but the best for Lucy , and that meant a month of sober evenings honing every flip phrase so that it made a point . |
| 29 | But being a priest — that meant far , far more . |
| 30 | For me that meant wrapping it in a blue launderette bag which served as a case . |