Example sentences of "[adj] has meant a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For Pearce , with his strong belief in personal contacts , that has meant a lot of travel to different parts of the world . |
| 2 | This has meant a change in the role of carers and a move towards short-term placement . |
| 3 | This has meant a fall in the demand for residential care which had been increasing rapidly in previous years and it is the duty of the relevant authorities to plan future provision er so that everything will work smoothly for those most in need . |
| 4 | This has meant a decline in the number of applications for admission to the Home in recent years , and with the certain reduction in the numbers at the Home in the future by death , it was obvious that the Home — to use a common words these days — was no longer " viable " . |
| 5 | The Soviet Union is making strenuous efforts to reduce its dependence on imports , boosting its use of fertilizers to levels above those anywhere else , but its enlistment of poor , fragile land in the battle for self-sufficiency in the early 1970s has meant a loss of land through abandonment in the 1980s , perhaps as much as 13 per cent of the peak grain area . |