Example sentences of "mean that [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The full-strength argument is that there are often substantial costs to employing someone which mean that a company might choose to employ a machine rather than a person even if that person 's wages cost them nothing . |
| 2 | And , if so , did the assumption of nobility mean that a man must act nobly to merit his new position ? |
| 3 | ‘ We are moving into an economic environment where the number of scheme members , the increasing number of pensioners , and the high level of holdings in the equity of public companies by pension funds mean that a situation of uncertainty is undesirable . |
| 4 | This does , I believe , mean that a rethink is urgently needed about the boarding-out regulations , reviews and some other aspects of social work practice , which are appropriate to social work with permanent new families . |
| 5 | Fifth , class action suits mean that a shareholder with just one share can sue on behalf of the entire body of shareholders and , finally , the widely misused Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organisations Act allows any firm that has been charged with fraud more than three times in the previous few years , whether or not it is found guilty , to be perceived as a corrupt organisation and therefore liable for triple damages . |
| 6 | To assert those alternatives and to insist upon them we mean that a designer should cease to be the industrial Eichmann of a large corporation . |
| 7 | But this does not necessarily or even generally mean that every college teacher can teach . |
| 8 | Incorrect information or forms not returned simply mean that the Council will send out full bills in April and causes inevitable delays in sorting out individual circumstances . ’ |
| 9 | By ‘ officially ’ I mean that the computer 's operating system tells me that there are just three files . |
| 10 | Does subsidiarity mean that the Member States should be permitted to decide whether that decision is an individual matter or one for the national state to take on the basis of its view of where the best interests of |
| 11 | I mean that the novel has always given the impression that third person narration can narrate what it is I am feeling . |
| 12 | As , as , as somebody pointed out , I mean that the floor by floor was great for one , from one point of view , was n't it ? |
| 13 | The scale and pace of technological change mean that the public as well as employees are crucially at risk . |
| 14 | More generally , it remains true that the severity of the Monopolies Commission 's findings mean that the board is necessarily placed somewhat on the defensive about its investment appraisals , and will find all its investment assumptions scrutinised with some suspicion . |
| 15 | Weaknesses in the corporate governance structure and slackness in the other markets that constrain management behaviour also mean that the existence of these additional controls is consistent with considerable managerial latitude . |
| 16 | Since these results are obtained in animals that have been living in a normal environment , they mean that the clock originates , at least in these animals , from an abnormal ‘ internal ’ structure , the chromosome . |
| 17 | So far as the housewife is concerned , time limits imposed by factors outside her control mean that the pace of her work is too fast for each task to get the attention she would like to give it . |
| 18 | The massive lack of popular support for the government 's plans for the NHS and the overwhelming popularity of a public health system ( despite its many problems ) over a privatised health system , mean that the government could be defeated on this issue . |
| 19 | These close links mean that the Faculty has a strong interdisciplinary emphasis , which recognises both the value of traditional legal scholarship and the importance of studying law in broader social and theoretical perspectives . |
| 20 | The production machinery has to be moved every day as the face moves , geological variations mean that the size and quality of the seam is unpredictable , and there is always the possibility of the collapse of the walls , roof , etc . |
| 21 | Changing patterns of life expectancy and advances in medical technology , treatment and rehabilitation also mean that the size of this subgroup of older disabled people is increasing . |
| 22 | They mean that the work team has replaced the hierarchy , that knowledge has replaced capital , that working lives involve tasks not careers . |
| 23 | This does not , however , mean that the peasantry were contented , nor does it prove that they were particularly prosperous ; rather it suggests that the peasantry found that they could secure their aims more effectively by passive resistance and the exploitation of their economic power than by violence . |
| 24 | This does not , however , mean that the opportunity of introducing such a scheme is lost forever . |
| 25 | The principles of care mean that the resident should , as far possible , feel they are in their own home . |
| 26 | The differences between disciplines to which Taylor refers mean that the discussion will to some extent be an abstract one , moving at a level at which one can identify general ideas , characteristics and trends . |
| 27 | Years of scholarship and so many contentious performances mean that the character is now regarded as ‘ difficult ’ , when it can in fact benefit from the freshness and vitality of the natural actor , who will quickly find the comic qualities of the man as well as his serious side . |
| 28 | And expectations that we work , be active , and conceal as far as possible the very existence of our periods , mean that the instant , ’ disposable ’ , ’ invisible ’ products of the soft paper industry are the obvious choice for the vast majority of women . |
| 29 | Does ’ detailed information on how to judge a school 's performance ’ mean that the system will be the same as our parents charter , or does it , as it sounds , means that there will be an extra layer of bureaucracy , taking into its embrace Her Majesty 's inspectorate of schools and producing not what has been described as raw data , but information that colours it all ? |
| 30 | True , the low magnifications of ordinary binoculars mean that the scope is limited , but with open clusters , at least , binoculars are very suitable . |