Example sentences of "[noun sg] means that [det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A key element of the deal means that all senior AVMD staff , including senior partner Jan Robinson , have signed five-year contracts to stay with the group . |
| 2 | Higher wage rates increase marginal cost , but a higher marginal physical product of labour means that less extra workers are needed to make an additional unit of output , thus reducing marginal cost . |
| 3 | Many sciences moreover share the characteristic that a major discovery means that all other models and theories are simply out of date and have to be discarded . |
| 4 | That apparent drawback means that each rotating show is as much about curatorial overview as it is about the objects themselves . |
| 5 | It floats enough to raise the pitch of the top E string by a full tone , but this amount of movement means that any slight pressure from the player 's right hand on the bridge affects the pitch of the strings . |
| 6 | One discharger will find it difficult to complain about being the subject of excessive attention from the water authority — of being ‘ picked on ’ — because regular sampling means that all known discharges will be subjected to scrutiny . |
| 7 | But if the new science is produced through a rupture with the ‘ errors ’ of the old , the tenacious hold of common-sense forms of thought means that any given text may simultaneously embody aspects of the old and new ways of thinking , theoretical and ideological frameworks that Bachelard , and Althusser after him , term ‘ problematics ’ : |
| 8 | In addition , the AppleMac 's facility for incorporating sound within a program means that this further dimension can be added to the programs ; the user could then learn to associate the sound with the symbol , or with its description . |
| 9 | The Secretary of State 's last uprating statement means that another 400,000 pensioners are now eligible for income support . |
| 10 | Use of fixed format input means that many coded questionnaire responses need occupy only a single character field . |
| 11 | The failure to account for pyloric loss and duodenogastric reflux means that any true change in gastric secretion could be masked by changes in transpyloric fluid flux ; the effect of swallowed saliva is at present impossible to correct for . |
| 12 | Unfortunately , using the dawg means that any additional information about words ( e.g. grammatical category ) would have to be stored elsewhere ( section 5.4.3 ) . |