Example sentences of "means that [adj] [noun] can [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These can turn out to be expensive , making the return to work unfeasible for many middle to lower paid people ; they can also prove to be unreliable , which means that working mothers can find themselves alienating their employers through no fault of their own . |
| 2 | Although debt enquiries still only account for 6 — 7 per cent of total enquiries , the severity of the problems means that each case can take over 12 hours of interviewing and office work to handle . |
| 3 | This means that new savers can join the trust at any time , and that existing savers can increase their holdings of units . |
| 4 | Although the timescale of artificial selection experiments means that new mutations can contribute to the responses , in the above experiments accumulation of partially recessive mutations could not account for the decline in early performance , because the drop persisted in crosses between ‘ old ’ lines . |
| 5 | The interactive nature of marriage means that such actions can have escalating effects . |
| 6 | THERE is a fetid and corrupt core to the prison system in Britain which means that one spark can cause a conflagration ’ — Frances Crook , director of the Howard League for Penal Reform . |
| 7 | Derek Clark says that it will change sailing by forcing people to realise that sometimes championships are won by people who are the right weight and size rather than the best sailor … he says they 're hoping to examine the skill levels … it also means that more people can go racing … |
| 8 | This means that different firms can adopt the same formal organisation trappings but still find themselves managing particular tasks in quite different ways . |
| 9 | Foot steering of the outboard motor means that military users can keep both hands free to use weapons . |
| 10 | In particular , the focus on the form of restrictive agreements , rather than on their effects , means that careful drafting can take some agreements between firms outside the scope of the legislation . |
| 11 | Although there are half a million Methodists , there tend to be 50 speakers who dominate proceedings I am told , but the democratic ( half ministers — half members ) quota means that some circuits can elect seventeen-year-old girls to be their delegates to the conference . |