Example sentences of "mean that [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | Improvements in the snowmaking technology both in the USA and Europe mean that the high levels of humidity which previously hampered artificial snowmaking in Scotland can be overcome . |
| 5 | It meant that no more Slavs should be taken into the Dual Empire , because that would distort the balance of races there . |
| 6 | I wanted to concentrate the space to the sculptural potential it aspires to but does not fulfil , which meant that the two elements I decided to use needed to have a weight and mass comparable to that of the architecture . |
| 7 | Technological advances meant that the new generations of machinery embodied important innovations . |
| 8 | The battle was fought out in three short Parliaments which met between 1679 and 1681 , after which politics was driven out-of-doors for the rest of the reign , whilst during the period of the Tory Reaction a successful campaign of legal recriminations taken against the political enemies of the Court meant that the first Whigs as a political movement were almost destroyed . |
| 9 | This meant that the married women left at home came in for a large share of the work about the croft . |
| 10 | On May 9 Labour leader Neil Kinnock claimed in the House of Commons that the reforms meant that the clinical needs of patients were coming second to commercial considerations . |
| 11 | This meant that the Dionysiac participants were divided into two separate groups , worshippers ( making up a new and smaller chorus ) and spectators . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , Napoleon 's victories over the Prussians meant that the German states were opened up to foreign and revolutionary influences . |
| 13 | The concentration of blast furnaces at a smaller number of plants meant that the rolling mills at Corby and Shotton , for example , would henceforth receive their raw steel from other parts of the country . |
| 14 | The main problem was rate capping for the city council , which meant that the social services department had to save £4m and lose 400 staff . |
| 15 | This meant that the Social Democrats would not be entitled to any extra seats allocated from the party list , and as a result , did not have a majority . |
| 16 | This was largely unexpected by civil servants at the Board , though not by Churchill , but it meant that the educational problems of an extension and perpetuation of the existing system were minimised . |
| 17 | The growth of the towns meant that the urban potteries had to produce large quantities of plain ware for ordinary everyday use , such as cooking pots , storage jars of all sizes and lamps . |
| 18 | This meant that the public disputes and debates over policy that take place openly in the West were in the Soviet Union argued out within the party and in private . |
| 19 | The funds unlocked by Michael Milken 's junk bonds , a form of finance which uses the tax benefits which accrue to corporate debt , meant that the unthinkable takeovers of the past became possible . |
| 20 | It also meant that the larger firms , particularly those with large criminal practices , could flood the rota with partners and assistant solicitors . |
| 21 | The company may suffer because , as we have seen , unless such rights have been most carefully drafted , they will not come into operation so long as no action regarding registration is taken by the personal representative and because , if the company had only two members and directors , the death of one may mean that no quorate meetings can be held , and the company may face a petition to wind it up . |
| 22 | This does not mean that the vast provinces of Russia should be ignored , although they usually are . |
| 23 | This does not mean that the economic functions of states have been diminished or are likely to fade away . |
| 24 | There 's no doubt that means plain knitting on the basic chunky machine but this does not necessarily mean that the finished items have to be dull . |
| 25 | The fact that the adventure story has always been very largely the province of male writers does not necessarily mean that the female characters in such fictions will be less ‘ real ’ than the heroes or villains . |
| 26 | At the very least , it would mean that the real issues are debated rather than the trivial detail of statistics and history . |
| 27 | Nor does it mean that the new controllers are any less constrained by the pressures of markets and profitability than old-style entrepreneurs . |
| 28 | The change did not mean that the new recruits to Parliament were any less committed to socialism : indeed , many of them probably understood its teachings even better than had the bulk of MPs of the pre-war era . |
| 29 | It certainly did not mean that the two movements had been fused into a single whole . |
| 30 | The important point , however , is that the two " likes " must be treated as like in some respect ; and in the linguistic cases this does not merely mean that the two items co-ordinated must be on the same level in terms of specific syntactic classifications , as has often been remarked ; more importantly , it is clear that they must be alike in both bearing one of the other relations , already introduced , to some third element ; thus , in : ( 38 ) Nora is Irish and beautiful the structure is such that Irish and beautiful are both related to Nora by assignment , while in : ( 39 ) bed and board is going to take half his wages the relation of instantiation links both bed and board to the single entity in the subject position . |