Example sentences of "[noun] mean that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | New technologies mean that high productivity is now possible with small-batch production . |
| 2 | The proliferation of data and the increasing need for multiple datasets by researchers mean that online catalogues , navigation systems to link different catalogues and software for catalogue searching are of critical importance . |
| 3 | Lack of internal capital and entrepreneurial experience mean that rural people are often not able to take advantage of such opportunities . |
| 4 | There simply are not enough competing news organizations to provide adequate variety and debate between them , and the technical or commercial factors that hinder the creation of rival news organizations mean that free speech can not be guaranteed by open entry into a system of competing news organizations . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In addition , the contributions made by LASMO and other supporters meant that local students , who find it very difficult to get funding , were able to take part in a project in their own country . |
| 7 | Popular suffrage meant that rival factions would shout for their own candidate . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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, a slow and cumbersome system for pesticide review means that 30-year-old chemicals remain in use despite having been superseded by safer alternatives , Clark argues . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Fitting gatevalves means that new pipes to fittings around the house can be installed after the cold water cistern is in place and connected up . |
| 13 | The growth of instrumental tuition in schools means that large numbers of children with some musical ability are available to be recruited . |
| 14 | Class consciousness means that false class consciousness has been replaced by a full awareness of the true situation , by a realization of the nature of exploitation . |
| 15 | All of these effects mean that cold cathode equipment , while eminently convenient for qualitative work , is unsuitable for making reliable and precise observations on CL intensity and emission wavelengths ( see Section 6.5 ) . |
| 16 | Defaults in non-financial sector mean that financial institutions have to provision against loan losses . |
| 17 | Moreover , the weakness of the remanent magnetism contained within volcanic rocks together with various sources of error meant that large numbers of individual measurements had to be averaged in order to provide a reasonably precise estimate of past continental positions . |
| 18 | The rapid growth of the secondary banking sector meant that unsatisfied demand for credit from the primary banks could be met by the secondary banks ; this sector not being subject to the liquidity ratio requirements . |
| 19 | The transfer of ILEA responsibilities to the council meant that future decisions around integration and children would be mainly the brief of the new Education Committee . |
| 20 | Khadafi 's alleged production of chemical weapons and alleged support of international terrorist movements meant that diplomatic relations with the United States remained deadlocked . |
| 21 | The assumption that women 's own resources become inoperative on marriage means that abrupt alterations to the class structure are liable to occur every time someone gets married . |
| 22 | The presence of this impractical exchange means that modern anthropologists see exchange as more fundamental to social relations than Marx and Engels did . |
| 23 | Although local authorities in the area have maps of ‘ randon territory , ’ the variability between dwelling and dwelling means that individual testing is essential . |
| 24 | The position of the proposed dwelling means that natural daylight would be restricted by the proximity of other buildings , the high steep banking and the trees on all sides . |
| 25 | Indeed , the recent decline in spatial mobility means that daily life is increasingly limited to relatively small regions . |
| 26 | The great sensitivity of the test means that environmental samples can be tested for infectious organisms . |
| 27 | The straightforward cytochemical test means that large numbers of samples can be quickly and accurately analysed by relatively inexperienced technicians . |
| 28 | Easy-to-run homes and a host of electrical aids mean that heavy housework does not take the toll it once did . |
| 29 | The requirements of negotiating procedures and national security meant that full glasnost was not possible in foreign policy , but wider discussion was essential . |
| 30 | The Socialist leadership 's sensitivity to FNTT members ' expectations meant that agrarian issues pressed even more urgently upon it than would otherwise have been the case . |