Example sentences of "mean that [art] [adj] [noun] " 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 | Those two aspects mean that a small number of people can be members and they are held in some esteem . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The flood of referrals now reaching health and social services does not , of course , mean that a new evil is stalking the land . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | This does not , however , mean that a biological reductionism is an appropriate mode of explanation for all types of human behaviour . |
| 11 | But certain features of syntactic structure such as restrictions on word order , the principle of end-weight , and the natural phraseology of the target language often mean that the thematic organization of the source text has to be abandoned . |
| 12 | The importance of inheritance , and the barriers to gaining substantial wealth through saving or employment mean that the upper class has maintained a considerable degree of social closure . |
| 13 | Although you can scale up the size and shape of the leaves and flowers , the huge numbers that have to be used to fill the picture mean that the overall effect is lost , and you can not appreciate the beauty of each flower as there are so many of them . |
| 14 | As in France , there are cultural as well as structural problems : the weakness of policy debate and the public sense of alienation from the bizarre workings of their political system mean that the successive crises seldom have anything to do with the outside world . |
| 15 | The numbers mean that the first bulb flashes every 12 seconds , the next every 8 seconds , and the third every 6 seconds . |
| 16 | ‘ I mean that the only reason I keep your brother on is because he 's an absolute wizard with engines . ’ |
| 17 | Immediately pressing a few flowers from this bouquet will ensure that they are preserved while in top condition , and mean that the remaining flowers can be enjoyed in a colourful arrangement . |
| 18 | Such policies have been directly against the interests of disabled people , whose economic position and need for housing with particular physical characteristics mean that the private sector has little to offer . |
| 19 | The sweeping changes in our continent mean that the European Community that we have created will need to open its doors to new members in the near future . |
| 20 | By correctly distinguish I mean that the correct phrase must be the only phrase with a certain score , and it must have the highest score . |
| 21 | Does Article 37 mean that the normal grounds for termination of a treaty ( material breach and rebus sic stantibus ) do not apply to obligations and rights created for third States ? |
| 22 | Different sizes mean that the best use is made of the space available so that food loss and wastage are reduced . |
| 23 | But the difficulties inherent in a patchwork quilt of land ownership , and the overwhelming financial problems associated with acquiring land , mean that the best use of land is not always achieved . |
| 24 | Well we were taken up to the standby boat which is I mean every vessel in the North Sea , every rig and installation has a boat that circles it , non stop , twenty four hours a day and I mean that The standby boat on Piper I mean it was the the two inflatable boats off it that picked everybody up , and most folk up , and one of them was lost , they lost two of the crew off that . |
| 25 | This does not , however , mean that the written form is necessarily easier to make sense of or to follow than speech , nor that this particular set of conventions necessarily advantages English users . |
| 26 | Among mammals by contrast , viviparity and lactation mean that the limiting resource is nearly always the female 's rearing capacity . |
| 27 | Does this secretive attitude mean that the Royal Family will continue to refuse to allow detailed fire brigade inspections of their private quarters ? |
| 28 | In 10 out of 12 EC countries , lower taxes mean that the same bottle is sold for less : |
| 29 | The barriers to rationality outlined above , in terms of the lack of organisational , intellectual resources and time mean that the well-intentioned official will settle for satisficing or getting by . |
| 30 | The dearth of native applications for parallel processors and the attractions of parallelising the kinds of application written in Fortran mean that the High Performance Fortran initiative simply must succeed . |