Example sentences of "[noun pl] has mean [art] " in BNC.
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1 | In prison chapels the abandonment in the early 1960s of compulsory worship for all prisoners has meant the demise of Matins and its lusty singing . |
2 | However , the growing number of students with instrumental proficiency in recent years has meant an increasing concentration on orchestral work . |
3 | Hard times … the police crackdown on kerb-crawlers has meant a huge slump in business for vice girls in Liverpool . |
4 | The fall in crude prices since 1980 coupled with the diminution of oil availability fears has meant a progressive down-grading of forecasts for the future contribution to world energy supply of synthetic fuels as project after project , megaproject after megaproject , has been closed down . |
5 | Implementation of the Dearing Committee reforms has meant a halving of the old exposure period . |
6 | This investigation should make it possible to judge whether or not recent changes in the household position of elderly persons has meant a break with arrangements traditional in our country for many centuries . |
7 | Over the years , Christine 's popularity with Anglia viewers has meant a steadily increasing flow of invitations to support charities and open garden fêtes . |
8 | The lack of sponsors has meant the taxpayer has had to foot more of the bill . |
9 | The financial burden of repairs has meant the council faces a year of cost cutting in other departments . |
10 | The financial burden of repairs has meant the council faces a year of cost cutting in other departments . |
11 | In many cases success for one of our runners has meant a breakthrough in a problem with which he has been struggling in the classroom . |
12 | But in recent years the decline of these industries has meant an end to many traditional working-class communities where the extended family still survived . |