Example sentences of "mean [that] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fourthly , the growing awareness of the complexity of children 's problems , coupled with an ecological perspective that views them as part of an extended family and local community with its own history and culture , mean that no single person or agency will be able to provide all the necessary services . |
| 2 | But the waters in this campaign are deep and the cross currents of tactical voting mean that no one can be certain of the outcome , until the votes are counted . |
| 3 | Large wiggles mean that a single radiocarbon result can correspond to more than one calendar result ( see fig. 7.8 ) ; distinguishing between the different calendar possibilities can not then be achieved by radiocarbon alone . |
| 4 | This does not , however , mean that a biological reductionism is an appropriate mode of explanation for all types of human behaviour . |
| 5 | Over a period of time the effects of changes in personal circumstances and company policy mean that a viable partnership will need to recruit new partners and plan for effective induction . |
| 6 | The full-strength argument is that there are often substantial costs to employing someone which mean that a company might choose to employ a machine rather than a person even if that person 's wages cost them nothing . |
| 7 | ‘ We are moving into an economic environment where the number of scheme members , the increasing number of pensioners , and the high level of holdings in the equity of public companies by pension funds mean that a situation of uncertainty is undesirable . |
| 8 | Fifth , class action suits mean that a shareholder with just one share can sue on behalf of the entire body of shareholders and , finally , the widely misused Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organisations Act allows any firm that has been charged with fraud more than three times in the previous few years , whether or not it is found guilty , to be perceived as a corrupt organisation and therefore liable for triple damages . |
| 9 | The flood of referrals now reaching health and social services does not , of course , mean that a new evil is stalking the land . |
| 10 | Yes , if by this we mean that a third party could urge this on the dog 's behalf and that sanctions of the law might well ensue . |
| 11 | This does , I believe , mean that a rethink is urgently needed about the boarding-out regulations , reviews and some other aspects of social work practice , which are appropriate to social work with permanent new families . |
| 12 | Changes in the sort of education required by students mean that a more professional attitude to teaching must be developed . |
| 13 | And , if so , did the assumption of nobility mean that a man must act nobly to merit his new position ? |
| 14 | The case for R&D agreements is partly that they avoid wasteful duplication of research , and allow complementary skills and risks to be pooled , but mainly that they internalize the information spillovers which mean that a single firm is unable to appropriate all the returns to its R&D efforts . |
| 15 | It will be noted that the day space , to be provided on the basis of 4m2 per person , and including the 2 day patients , mean that a 10-bed sub-section would have a total and an 8-bed sub-section would have a day space of 40m 2 . |
| 16 | Such factors as the growth in unemployment and numbers of one-parent families mean that a major aim will be to identify more specific indicators of a heightened risk of entering care . |
| 17 | To assert those alternatives and to insist upon them we mean that a designer should cease to be the industrial Eichmann of a large corporation . |
| 18 | Those two aspects mean that a small number of people can be members and they are held in some esteem . |
| 19 | However , the cost of repairs , lack of heirs and financial or family problems inevitably mean that every two or three years a great house faces sale and break-up . |
| 20 | But this does not necessarily or even generally mean that every college teacher can teach . |
| 21 | Years of scholarship and so many contentious performances mean that the character is now regarded as ‘ difficult ’ , when it can in fact benefit from the freshness and vitality of the natural actor , who will quickly find the comic qualities of the man as well as his serious side . |
| 22 | I mean that the novel has always given the impression that third person narration can narrate what it is I am feeling . |
| 23 | However , they mean that the pilot has to be prepared for a possible launch failure or cable break on every flight . |
| 24 | But today 's changes mean that the contribution rate on the first £43 a week is only 2 per cent . |
| 25 | Producers may favour one-man shows for economic reasons , but that does n't in itself mean that the audience is being short-changed . |
| 26 | The scale and pace of technological change mean that the public as well as employees are crucially at risk . |
| 27 | Handfuls of froth simply mean that the manufacturer has added lots of foaming agents . |
| 28 | Since these results are obtained in animals that have been living in a normal environment , they mean that the clock originates , at least in these animals , from an abnormal ‘ internal ’ structure , the chromosome . |
| 29 | Turbulence at home , combined with an American decision to restrict Jewish immigrants from the Soviet Union , mean that the stream of emigration is now directed almost exclusively at Israel . |
| 30 | The decisions taken by the heads of government — in the face of Mrs Thatcher 's lone opposition — mean that the Community will deliberately accelerate progress to supra-national monetary union . |