Example sentences of "[noun sg] mean that [adj] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lack of internal capital and entrepreneurial experience mean that rural people are often not able to take advantage of such opportunities . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It may be that growing wealth meant that more people came to have access to modern contraceptive techniques . |
| 4 | The inexorable course of this colonial war meant that many people in France , especially within the army , were not prepared to entertain anything that entailed France giving up military sovereignty . |
| 5 | The theory of natural selection meant that natural species could be explained in terms of the conditions necessary for their survival , and it seemed a small further step to explaining human social systems in such terms ; that is , in terms of the ways by which human beings gained their livelihood and reproduced . |
| 6 | However , despite the generally positive reception given to the growth of community alternatives , concern has been expressed that the decline in residential provision means that young people with the most serious problems do not always receive appropriate help ( Hekken et al . , |
| 7 | Both the expense and the wide-ranging subject matter in this book mean that few people will buy it , but it should be in the library of any organisation working on the platinum group metals . |
| 8 | The increased use of trained child care officers who had studied the growth and development of personality meant that more people were aware of the difficulty , if not the impossibility , of compensating a child for the break-up of his or her natural home . |
| 9 | However , increasing the screen resolution means that more data ( defining the dot patterns ) must be sent to the screen . |
| 10 | Changing working habits and increased competition for leisure time mean that many people feel they simply do n't have the time any more . |
| 11 | The scenario depicted is that decreased hospital stay means that older people ( or indeed patients of any age ) are being sent home with high levels of dependency ; community services/informal carers can not cope and the person has to come back into hospital . |
| 12 | From the top down , the segmentation of politics means that different people care about different parts of the federalist puzzle and can not work out whom to blame . |