Example sentences of "means that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The unexpected reduction in the number of criminal legal aid orders granted over the last few months means that expenditure will in any event be lower than originally expected . |
| 2 | Christ 's coming in his birth at Bethlehem means that God-is-with-us — Emmanuel ! |
| 3 | It means that legislation tabled by John McFall , Labour MP for Dumbarton , with support from the Liberal Democrats and Scottish National Party , will fail for lack of parliamentary time . |
| 4 | This means that migration now has a major impact on population change , even though Ravenstein 's first law is still seen to hold , since Brant ( 1984 ) has shown that of the 9 per cent of people who moved between 1980 and 1981 , a massive 70 per cent moved less than six miles . |
| 5 | The availability of the computer means that spectrum manipulation , storage and retrieval for replotting or comparison with standards are all easy , and this may be felt to justify the higher cost of interferometers . |
| 6 | As Attridge shows this means that poetry claiming to be perfecting the natural ( acting according to decorum ) establishes its claim to do so by using a rhetoric which is employed only by a learned few whose language is distanced from the natural language of the majority . |
| 7 | The DSS note states : ’ There is also the practical problem that the routine destruction of case papers means that evidence no longer exists in many cases . ’ |
| 8 | Erm so erm maybe because of the continuity between some forms of abusive sexual practice and erm what we expect of kids , what we train kids to do anyway um it means that abuse is easier to get away with . |
| 9 | This means that missile throwing , although technically perhaps falling within the ambit of this offence , would place on the prosecutor the burden of proving that the missile was directed at a human being rather than at property . |
| 10 | And that 's those dimples are the bottom are on the bottom bit of your spine so if the dimples are n't level it means that bit of your back is slightly |
| 11 | It means that psychoanalysis takes a lot longer , because you are looking at defences and ego as well as at , at the . |
| 12 | For example , the valley on the west side of the Nile at Luxor containing the Tombs of the Kings appears to be a water-eroded valley , but the tombs themselves show no signs of destructive water action : this means that water action of any significance probably ceased at least 4 000 years ago ( Hume , 1925 ) |
| 13 | It means that money to pay for your current fuel consumption , and towards the arrears you owe , is taken from your benefit each week and paid direct to your fuel account . |
| 14 | For the big institutional investor , this means that money — which could be used to carry out other share trades — is tied up unproductively . |
| 15 | Yet with treaties , lack of protest is viewed as irrelevant ; the strong presumption that a State is not bound by a treaty which it has not accepted means that lack of response to a treaty communicated to it entails no acceptance . |
| 16 | Means that provision has to be . |
| 17 | But that means that bread 's not really gone up that much . |
| 18 | Its self-adjusting actions means that hair only absorbs as much lotion as it needs . |
| 19 | As such it means that vigilante heroes , no matter how good , are not the stuff of which Christians are made . |
| 20 | The combination of the two policies , which are likely to be extended to the rest of Britain , means that land which can support far greater numbers and variety of trees will be available to foresters . |
| 21 | The Swedish action means that member countries of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora ( CITES ) will vote on whether to implement a ban at their next meeting next March in Kyoto . |
| 22 | They might see it as better to take-over their main supplier , even if it means that company losing some existing orders from competing manufacturers of food products ; * buyers may deliberately seek international suppliers , so as to maintain their choice and retain some degree of control over the prices and terms of supply . |
| 23 | ‘ The main thrust of the CAP reforms in reducing cereal prices and therefore feeding stock prices in the EC means that competition from the intensively-produced grain-based meats such as poultry and pig meat will remain intense , ’ said Dr Palmer at the Agra Europe Outlook Conference . |
| 24 | But atomic power to my generation always means that mushroom cloud . |
| 25 | This means that publication of excavation reports , as the Frere Report indicates ( 1975 ) , will also have to be transformed , since large pottery reports may now have become too expensive to print in the traditional manner , and may have to be available in microfiche sheets . |
| 26 | The growing scale of the bureaucracy , the increasing complexity of its role and the intricacy of its relations with the politicians means that bureaucracy today needs to be studied as a separate institution ( see chapter 17 ) . |
| 27 | Its just the very fact that erm there 's no equivalent to marriage for lesbian 's and gay men , it means that society is looking down on it . |
| 28 | The inevitability of that Congress should pull back , excuse me , the inevitability means that Congress should pull back from indus industrial strategies and negotiating deals , but should be left to the members concerned . |
| 29 | This means that Rule 14e-3 has wide-reaching effects . |
| 30 | Overall , while the UK is the main beneficiary under Objective 2 ( Table 2 ) , the fact that the UK is excluded from Objective 1 assistance ( with the exception of Northern Ireland ) means that access to the vast bulk of the Structural Funds is denied . |