Example sentences of "[noun sg] mean that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we shall see , Nigerian newspapers are able to command quite large circulations , but high overheads and stiff competition for limited advertising support mean that few would survive on commercial grounds alone . |
| 2 | However , unemployment and the recession mean that many firms can no longer afford the creches and bonuses , and are reluctantly having to curtail them . |
| 3 | New rules for pharmacy funding mean that any chemist 's shop which dispenses fewer than 2,000 prescriptions per month will lose grants and will face closure . |
| 4 | Lack of internal capital and entrepreneurial experience mean that rural people are often not able to take advantage of such opportunities . |
| 5 | Prisons not only carry the weight of a bleak , punitive tradition dating from the days of the British , but the long years of neglect and lack of investment mean that any significant reforms demand a massive injection of resources . |
| 6 | In an extensive review arising from IGCP 61 Kidson ( 1982 ) has concluded that the search for a universal eustatic curve should be regarded as over ; that regional differences in changes in the geoid mean that eustatic sea level curves can have only regional validity ; and that no part of the earth 's crust can be regarded as wholly stable . |
| 7 | This in essence meant that one digit in a sequence ( usually 9 or Z ) was used solely for the purpose of continuing that sequence further if new editions needed to be made . |
| 8 | Kenya administrators also discovered the ‘ importance and usefulness of [ cattle ] sales as a meeting place for the transaction of official business ’ , but except in wartime , when the army needed meat , veterinary quarantines imposed in response to pressure from representatives of the European livestock industry meant that such sales were not a prominent feature of life in Kenya Masai District . |
| 9 | The increasing availability of liver transplantation during the course of the study meant that some individuals became eligible for this procedure . |
| 10 | Popular suffrage meant that rival factions would shout for their own candidate . |
| 11 | Mr Peter Smith , general secretary of the 120,000-strong Assistant Masters ' and Mistresses ' Association , said the general election result meant that hundreds of schools would seek to leave local authority control ‘ within the next few weeks ’ . |
| 12 | The result meant that both parties failed to capitalise on the widespread disaffection with the mainstream parties and in particular with the ruling Socialist Party ( PS ) which had been discovered in recent months to have been involved in a number of scandals . |
| 13 | Although the accord meant that essential medical and fuel supplies began reaching the island in mid-February , the agreement 's failure to address the central issue of Bougainville 's future status meant that it could not provide a final solution to the conflict . |
| 14 | It was a dismal , disorganized weekend and a waste of valuable opportunity ; everything was left to ‘ flow ’ , which in practice meant that many events did not even get off the ground . |
| 15 | This result means that New Northern will compete in Division I next year . |
| 16 | This association means that primary gastric MALT lymphoma can develop as a second neoplasm or that other neoplasms can occur in both treated and untreated patients with gastric lymphoma . |
| 17 | The bass sounds good , although lack of internal screening means that unwanted noise is sometimes a problem — less so on the humbucking back pickup — and generally it copes with styles from driving rock to funky , thumb rattling sounds and smoother , jazzy tones . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ Scientific thinking means that all things must be proved before they are . |
| 20 | There are three main methods of making such material traceable , but there is one general problem : wide dispersion and burial means that large amounts of material have to be used and that the traced percentage is low . |
| 21 | A key element of the deal means that all senior AVMD staff , including senior partner Jan Robinson , have signed five-year contracts to stay with the group . |
| 22 | The deal means that 1,000 fax and 800 copier contracts for former Hill customers on Tyneside and Teesside will be transferred to the new owner . |
| 23 | Despite the UK using more pesticides than most , a slow and cumbersome system for pesticide review means that 30-year-old chemicals remain in use despite having been superseded by safer alternatives , Clark argues . |
| 24 | What had changed was the distribution of employment so that although Japanese farms are very tiny , the threefold decline in agricultural employment to about 10 per cent of the labour force means that non-agricultural sectors now provide the bulk of small-firm employment . |
| 25 | The square law of force means that both alternating and direct currents are registered but there is an essentially square-law scale which is cramped at one end . |
| 26 | The way the funding mechanism works on the teaching side means that each student arriving in an institution brings with him or her less money than before . |
| 27 | The planned downsizing means that 5,000 more employees from the current 13,000 — down from 31,000 three years ago — will lose their jobs ; the sales target of $1,400m a year compares with $1,900m now . |
| 28 | Higher wage rates increase marginal cost , but a higher marginal physical product of labour means that less extra workers are needed to make an additional unit of output , thus reducing marginal cost . |
| 29 | Constantly running water through gravel means that any hardness will be leached into the water . |
| 30 | The placebo effect means that any treatment will improve a patient merely because he wants to recover and is responding to the clinician 's attempts to help rather than to a specific treatment . |