Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] mean that [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In general , improper handling and failure to meet temperature , retention and cooling times meant that the end products were often not sterile . |
| 2 | For Lévi-Strauss the search for universal structures meant that the issue of functional development could be put aside . |
| 3 | These rigorous tests mean that the Court of Appeal hears fresh evidence only rarely ; it will certainly need to be satisfied that the appeal is not being used merely as an attempt to argue the case in a different way . |
| 4 | The use of grammatical categories rather than individual words means that the number of different states is much smaller . |
| 5 | The vagaries of French history in the following decades meant that the principle of parliamentary control was ignored or rejected by successive regimes . |
| 6 | True , the low magnifications of ordinary binoculars mean that the scope is limited , but with open clusters , at least , binoculars are very suitable . |
| 7 | The centralisation of political organisations means that the function of power and patronage is essentially vertical , running from the local , through the regional to the national level ; there is little need for a strong element of local community participation in order to keep political machines functioning . |
| 8 | The geological formations mean that the production rate per oil well is very high , and this in conjunction with the proximity of the wells to deep water marine terminals , means that transportation and production costs are low . |
| 9 | Failure to comply with these rules means that the credit agreement will be improperly executed and will require a court order to be enforced under s127 of CCA 1974 . |
| 10 | And physical strength and basic skills meant that the quota of ball-retention was way above 90 per cent . |
| 11 | Schild claimed that these words meant that the kidnapping was a sham arranged by him to avoid his debts , and implied that he was a dishonest hypocrite prepared to exploit his family . |
| 12 | The success of Crookes and his successors with evacuated tubes meant that the passage of electricity through gases was more studied and better understood than that through solids . |
| 13 | Divisibility — the range of income levels in diverse marketplaces means that the divisibility of a product ( so that trial purchase may be made easily ) will be very influential |
| 14 | The novelty of these services meant that the area , as a pioneer development centre , soon attracted visitors from all over the country . |
| 15 | The production machinery has to be moved every day as the face moves , geological variations mean that the size and quality of the seam is unpredictable , and there is always the possibility of the collapse of the walls , roof , etc . |
| 16 | The traditional problem is that abandonment in many cases means that the investment to date may have been totally wasted , so there is a motivation to keep going . |
| 17 | Years of scholarship and so many contentious performances mean that the character is now regarded as ‘ difficult ’ , when it can in fact benefit from the freshness and vitality of the natural actor , who will quickly find the comic qualities of the man as well as his serious side . |
| 18 | British Steel originally announced on January 30 that the shipments would go by road after March 31 because increased costs meant that the rail service was no longer viable . |
| 19 | This surplus amounted to no more than 73 per cent of debt service and remittance payments ; and in spite of a 57 per cent increase in the volume of exports since 1980 , poor prices meant that the value of such exports represented a mere 24 per cent increase over the decade . |
| 20 | Maintenance will therefore add to the incomes of those in work , but the existence of different earnings disregards and tapers in the various in-work benefits mean that the impact will be difficult to work out , and could create substantial uncertainty in decision-making . |
| 21 | delivery of care by multidisciplinary teams mean that the health-care professionals who may otherwise give a variety of types of health care to a client organise themselves into , and work as , a co-ordinated team . |
| 22 | These important rights mean that the safety representatives must be consulted by the employer well before action is taken and when combined with the existing functions of safety representatives , they provide extensive rights to organize around health and safety at the workplace . |
| 23 | They were far more interested in time than were the Greeks , but the fact that every moment was regarded as the manifestation of supernatural forces meant that the concept of time which dominated Maya thought was purely astrological . |
| 24 | It proved unworkable because the smaller number of enquiries in rural districts meant that experience was never gained and the lack of anonymity within small communities meant that the enquiry rate was unlikely to increase . |
| 25 | In practice , the relative lack of co-ordination among the various harmonizing agencies means that the form of instrument is largely predetermined by the nature of the organization initiating the measure . |
| 26 | But in terms of family income the growth in the number of two-earner couples means that the gap in the incomes and living standards between lone mothers and other families with children has become wider . |
| 27 | The coexistence of these two problems means that a choice must be made between an expansionary or contractionary budget depending on the government 's preference : higher employment or stable prices . |
| 28 | Although children are bussed into the ‘ A ’ schools from poorer neighbourhoods , their location in the richer suburbs means that the majority of pupils are from either black or white middle-class families . |
| 29 | The regular association of passive structures with adversity in certain languages means that the passive can often carry connotations of unpleasantness even when the event depicted is not normally seen as unpleasant . |
| 30 | These close links mean that the Faculty has a strong interdisciplinary emphasis , which recognises both the value of traditional legal scholarship and the importance of studying law in broader social and theoretical perspectives . |