Example sentences of "[noun sg] mean that many [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , unemployment and the recession mean that many firms can no longer afford the creches and bonuses , and are reluctantly having to curtail them . |
| 2 | It was a dismal , disorganized weekend and a waste of valuable opportunity ; everything was left to ‘ flow ’ , which in practice meant that many events did not even get off the ground . |
| 3 | Notwithstanding Clinton 's protestations , the agonies suffered over the issue of draft evasion by Dan Quayle as vice-presidential candidate during the 1988 campaign meant that many Republicans seized upon the allegations against Clinton with undisguised delight . |
| 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 | This insidious behaviour means that many drugs which interfere with the life-cycle of the virus , for example by inhibiting the activity of crucial enzymes , will do the same to normal host cells . |
| 6 | The pattern of labour in an advanced economy means that many jobs and roles now require specialized education and training to a higher level than before , though this co-exists with ‘ de-skilling ’ in other jobs . |
| 7 | The existence in the benefit system to which they have access of a generous £10 weekly disregard on income from a top-up loan means that many students in those vulnerable groups will be better off under the new arrangements . |
| 8 | In addition to concern about rising oil prices due to the Gulf crisis , Blix said that fears of global warming caused by generating energy from fossil fuels such as coal , oil and gas meant that many countries would continue to rely on nuclear power . |
| 9 | The financial means at Lorenzo 's disposal did not , however , equal those of his father , and his early death and the subsequent convulsions of the Florentine State meant that many commissions did not progress beyond the planning stage . |
| 10 | One consequence of the rise in private asset ownership among elderly people is that many of them do not suffer any drastic reduction of their ability to consume on retirement : indeed , tax changes in the 1970s that encouraged pension schemes to pay out some of their assets as a lump sum mean that many retirees experience an increase in their consumption propensity in the first few years of retirement . |
| 11 | Despite this expansion , the low levels of education expenditure mean that many schools , especially in rural areas , are little more than shells . |
| 12 | Definitional convention means that many items are classified as current expenditure ( e.g. R & d and industrial training ) when they are , in fact , capital items . |
| 13 | Changing working habits and increased competition for leisure time mean that many people feel they simply do n't have the time any more . |
| 14 | This last fact means that many aspects of Salibi 's theory can not as yet be put to the test . |