Example sentences of "[pron] mean that [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Considering the recent near-miraculous developments in fibre technology which mean that synthetic fabrics can now imitate everything from silk to rubber while they absorb sweat , change colour , fill in your tax returns and remix Michael Jackson singles , polyester and cotton ( at the cutting edge of style in about 1953 ) is an insult to our national game . |
| 2 | Some indications of future policy moves , however , were to be seen in the increasingly tight controls on capital spending including the introduction of Housing Investment Plans ( HIPs ) which meant that individual councils had to agree the pattern of their housing capital spending with the Department of the Environment . |
| 3 | Although their American peers used mainly American guitars , these were expensive if available at all in Europe , which meant that home-grown lookalikes were snapped up by the hard-up young musos eager to perform — especially if they were reasonably playable in their own right . |
| 4 | Fundholding was initially limited to practices with list sizes of at least 11 000 patients , which meant that few practices in Scotland were eligible . |
| 5 | These bills of exchange almost invariably sank to a discount in terms of sterling , which meant that British merchants exporting to America lost money if they were compelled by colonial legislation to accept them as payment . |
| 6 | The major benefit of the deal for BA was described yesterday as the sharing of flight codes which meant that transatlantic passengers booking on to a USAir flight in the US would automatically transfer to a BA flight for the Atlantic crossing . |
| 7 | However , it would be wrong to have a system which meant that some countries set aside land so that other countries could produce more . |
| 8 | Many of us are shallow breathers ; we use only the upper part of our lungs , which means that toxic residues are not completely removed . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | British Rail and London Transport have a massive expansion programme of new investment , which means that certain projects must be completed before others can reasonably be expected to begin . |
| 11 | The machines have demonstrated that even good players make far more errors of this sort than anyone ever imagined , which means that such errors have usually gone undetected and unpunished . |
| 12 | In fact there are six , including the background colour , which means that six colours have been used for this design . |
| 13 | In Quebec as a whole , the birthrate has fallen below replacement level , which means that total numbers are maintained by immigrants . |
| 14 | Partly this is due to better treatment , but the lion 's share of the credit must go to the invention of the smear test , which means that small growths can be picked up and destroyed before they get out of hand . |
| 15 | It is still not clear whether the PowerPC has had the multi-processing guts ripped out of it , though Michael Slater editor of Microprocessor Report informs us modifications made to it include having 38 opcodes deleted , which means that all instructions that use multiply and quotient register , difference or zero and three integer operand instructions have all been wiped out . |
| 16 | In group A the Paper Tigers with their amazing bouncing ball have lifted their rounders difference to great heights while Dr Blobby and the Blobettes have at last picked up some points from a game , which means that all teams this year have managed to win at least one point . |
| 17 | Not until sixteen can you legally marry , which means that all babies born to under sixteen-year-olds are inevitably illegitimate . |
| 18 | If this is so , then these facilities are urgently needed , because it is intended to produce the revised OED in serial form , which means that forward cross-references could be rendered incorrect by revisions undertaken after the fascicles in which the cross-references appear had been published . |
| 19 | The animals must be reared in humane conditions , which means that intensive operations — like battery henhouses or veal units — are forbidden . |
| 20 | It causes a reduction in evapotranspiration ( a complicated word which means that fewer clouds are formed ) and an increase in temperatures . |
| 21 | Most modern systems are of the very powerful relational type , which means that different databases can be linked together through the use of common fields . |
| 22 | The programmes are now registered as providing learning support for NVQs at level 3 ( the Certificate ) and level 4 ( the Diploma ) which means that any students paying their own fees should not be required to pay the 25 per centincome tax component on either the HCIMA assessment fees or the college fees . |
| 23 | As is usual with electrostatic headphones , the design is openbacked which means that both sides of the diaphragm are free to radiate sound waves . |
| 24 | Which means that both parties to the negotiation must feel that the outcome is good for them . |
| 25 | Ninety per cent of the places go to package rafting firms which means that independent spirits can not pit themselves against the boiling waters of the Colorado . |
| 26 | Sony are also guarded about the technical specification of their search and retrieval engine which means that potential publishers must enter into confidentiality agreements before receiving even the essential information on which to base their preliminary data preparation costs . |
| 27 | The recall re-presents come back in two phases erm one tape will come back on the fifteenth of April , the second tape will come back on the sixteenth of April which means that those policies , when status report runs on the fifteenth of April it will only assess those policies erm that have had |
| 28 | According to a doctor with considerable experience of cases of dyslexia , the boy was ‘ moderately dyslexic , but the effects … are offset by his exceptionally high IQ which means that those effects are modified but not eliminated … . |
| 29 | The greatest benefit of the deal for BA comprises the sharing of flight codes which means that transatlantic passengers booking on to a USAir flight in the US would automatically transfer to a BA flight for the Atlantic crossing . |
| 30 | The radial Spanish trunk network had to contend with one of the most difficult geographies in Europe , which means that most routes from Madrid to the coast have to cross at least one mountain range , while in Britain the major centres are connected across relatively easy terrain . |