Example sentences of "[noun sg] means that [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although there are half a million Methodists , there tend to be 50 speakers who dominate proceedings I am told , but the democratic ( half ministers — half members ) quota means that some circuits can elect seventeen-year-old girls to be their delegates to the conference . |
| 2 | ‘ Scientific thinking means that all things must be proved before they are . |
| 3 | The way the funding mechanism works on the teaching side means that each student arriving in an institution brings with him or her less money than before . |
| 4 | Constantly running water through gravel means that any hardness will be leached into the water . |
| 5 | The placebo effect means that any treatment will improve a patient merely because he wants to recover and is responding to the clinician 's attempts to help rather than to a specific treatment . |
| 6 | The interactive nature of marriage means that such actions can have escalating effects . |
| 7 | The ERM means that that situation will be perpetuated throughout the 1990s . |
| 8 | In this condition , one wrong base pair in the DNA of the gene coding for a particular enzyme means that this enzyme is functionless and the body can not easily make melanin , which is the dark pigment responsible for brown eyes and dark hair , and which is produced in response to sunlight when we get a sun-tan . |
| 9 | The use of different flowers for each picture means that each design stands on its own but when the pictures are placed together it is obvious that they form a pair . |
| 10 | But a mild winter and plenty of rain means that this year the flowers have come into bloom a month early . |
| 11 | And the popularity of yesterday 's event means that another hurdle in the way of Sunday racing has been successfully cleared . |
| 12 | This insidious behaviour means that many drugs which interfere with the life-cycle of the virus , for example by inhibiting the activity of crucial enzymes , will do the same to normal host cells . |
| 13 | Using the market price means that each division must stand on its own feet , as though it were an independent company . |
| 14 | This pattern of interconnection means that all neurons in the neocortex could connect with any 1 mm 2 region through only one intermediate neuron , and likewise it could be influenced by the activity of any 1 mm 2 region through only one intermediary neuron . |
| 15 | Joint control means that both parents have the ability to exercise decisive influence over , and must agree on , the activities of the joint venture . |
| 16 | A rise in the birth rate means that this summer 's 6,499 school-leavers will be replaced by 7,374 new starters in County Durham secondary schools . |
| 17 | The pattern of labour in an advanced economy means that many jobs and roles now require specialized education and training to a higher level than before , though this co-exists with ‘ de-skilling ’ in other jobs . |
| 18 | The existence in the benefit system to which they have access of a generous £10 weekly disregard on income from a top-up loan means that many students in those vulnerable groups will be better off under the new arrangements . |
| 19 | So the main reason , that 's just sorry it 's a long way of getting to it sir but , the main change in circumstance that the county is putting forward since nineteen eighty compared with today is that agricultural policy means that more farmland is being diversified and they feel the need at county level to have a sweep-up policy to control that process . |
| 20 | The reason for reducing the event 's costs is that the less money which is spent on the gig means that more money goes to the artist . |
| 21 | The two-trigger operation means that both hands must be kept firmly on the handles , and therefore out of harm 's way when in use . |
| 22 | The fingerboard/neck jointing and overall fretwork is exemplary ; the neck-edging feels impossibly smooth , and hopefully manufacturing consistency means that all similar-spec 'd Bass Collection instruments will be as good as this . |
| 23 | The unpredictability of the glaze means that each pot is unique . |
| 24 | That perception of inferiority in turn means that some sort of caste barrier is erected between black and white . |
| 25 | In the West Midlands there has been some attempt to classify the type of assistance given to each client into advice or support where support means that some action was taken by the advice worker . |
| 26 | For example , the retention of selective schools characterised by traditional pedagogy and an elitist view of the curriculum means that some schools are less likely than others to be able to meet the expectations of a project founded on essentially comprehensive principles . |
| 27 | This freedom means that all men are to be immune from coercion on the part of individuals or of social groups and of any human power ’ ( Dignitatis Humanae 2 ) . |
| 28 | Less radically , intellectual fashion means that some names are in , and others out . |
| 29 | However , increasing the screen resolution means that more data ( defining the dot patterns ) must be sent to the screen . |
| 30 | Definitional convention means that many items are classified as current expenditure ( e.g. R & d and industrial training ) when they are , in fact , capital items . |