Example sentences of "have mean that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dominance of monetarist strategies in the 1980s and start of the 1990s has meant that monetary policy has played an extremely important role in overall economic policy , with control of the money supply and inflation being of prime importance . |
| 2 | These past five years my pernicious enfeeblement has meant that six months of the year I have had to hibernate , to entomb myself in the disused redoubt beneath Cliff Top , but at last I am free . |
| 3 | The initial stimulus was a drop in the price of Soviet oil , which has meant that Soviet industry can no longer afford to buy so much Czechoslovak machinery . |
| 4 | Typically this has meant that economic policy has emphasised the primacy of industry over agriculture , investment over consumption and exports over imports . |
| 5 | For instance , the high rate of scientific and technological development in the field of semiconductors during the past two or three decades has meant that technological forecasting has become a crucial part of sales and market forecasting for companies manufacturing electronic and telecommunication products , computers etc . |
| 6 | As far as study of the mystics is concerned , this has meant that modern readers have felt inhibited about discussing these texts and have attributed to them an abstruse esoteric quality ; this is ironic in view of the fact that the mystics themselves proclaim their experience to be of fundamental human importance — and essentially simple . |
| 7 | The so-called ring fencing of local authority housing revenue accounts in 1990 has meant that current spending on housing has to be financed out of the revenue raised from rents alone . |
| 8 | The first of these has meant that systematic surveillance is carried out by the branch over organizations that regularly organize demonstrations and marches or are involved in industrial disputes . |
| 9 | Moreover , the survival of Iraq 's aircraft has meant that allied pilots keep having to return to Iraqi airfields to crater the runways . |
| 10 | This has meant that many enthusiasts for computing in the humanities have an uncomfortable sense of crisis , a feeling of promise unfulfilled . |
| 11 | This has meant that many studies tend to concentrate on the objective assessment of a fiscally quantifiable reality . |
| 12 | The implementation of the single market legislation has meant that many supplies that were previously exempt or zero-rated now fall outside the scope of UK VAT . |
| 13 | The typically bi-modal career followed by women in Britain over recent decades ( leaving aside the marriage bar which affected older women ) has meant that married women and mothers of any marital status do not fit into structures of occupational pension provision designed for male breadwinners . |
| 14 | Pressure by environmentalists in the US has meant that that country has exerted some control over the industry by insisting that observers are placed on board US-registered boats . |
| 15 | In the rural areas , lack of access to land , drought ( which has not only destroyed crops but has meant that impoverished people have had to sell their livestock and have even been forced off the land by hardship ) , and rising prices have further marginalized poor rural dwellers . |
| 16 | Thus , for all the vast growth in the range of government activities — which has meant that civil servants have effectively been making major business decisions on the allocation of resources — the Treasury made little attempt to devise fundamentally new and appropriate methods of training and re-training [ Fulton Report , 1968 ; Chapman and Greenaway , 1980 ] . |
| 17 | Post-war urban development has meant that occupational communities no longer exist to provide readily available jobs and cater for the social needs of adolescent males . |
| 18 | This has meant that domestic plumbing has been brought within the reach of the competent handyman . |
| 19 | Relaxation of the international cold war has meant that military intervention by powerful countries from either the western or eastern blocs — from Cuba to France — will be much less frequent . |
| 20 | This move away from the traditional specialisation which was a feature of local government , has meant that generic workers need to develop financial skills and take responsibility for budgets . |
| 21 | This has meant that underground aquifers , which supply much of the water requirements of the south-east , have shrunk to the lowest level on record . |
| 22 | The decline of the extended family network , and its replacement by smaller ‘ nuclear ’ family groups , has meant that valuable networks of support and care have to a considerable extent disappeared . |
| 23 | This has meant that dead animals are left by the roadside for the council to collect , and the local slaughterhouses have been receiving sick animals as some farmers try to use it as a replacement for the knacker 's yard . |
| 24 | He further comments that the very increase in examination successes which has occurred especially since the introduction of CSE has meant that educational attainment has become more , not less , associated with social class . |
| 25 | Now what we 're hearing today in in the document that 's been put in by the County is that their assertion is that since nineteen eighty the changing erm common agriculture policy has meant that more farm land in the county is coming into play for development than was the case in nineteen eighty erm not least of all through set aside and general policies of diversification . |
| 26 | First , it has meant that those genes are favoured that have the property of ‘ cooperating ’ with those other genes that they are likely to meet in circumstances that favour cooperation . |
| 27 | In St Servatius this phenomenon has meant that large areas of the interior walls have been eaten away to a depth of more than a centimetre and the paint layers on the walls are beginning to peel off . |
| 28 | As far as Italy is concerned , the relatively low level of institutionalisation of collective bargaining relations has meant that any matter can now be bargained at any level and any time — for instance , at shopfloor level matters already dealt with in the industry agreement can be negotiated ( Treu , 1981 ) . |
| 29 | It has meant that proposed talks with Forest over his return to the club have been put on hold , and the transfer is not expected to be completed until the weekend . |
| 30 | This has meant that legally-held guns and those applying to hold them are already subject to very tight controls . ’ |