Example sentences of "have meant 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Typically this has meant that economic policy has emphasised the primacy of industry over agriculture , investment over consumption and exports over imports . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Moreover , the survival of Iraq 's aircraft has meant that allied pilots keep having to return to Iraqi airfields to crater the runways . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ] . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | This has meant that domestic plumbing has been brought within the reach of the competent handyman . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | This has meant that legally-held guns and those applying to hold them are already subject to very tight controls . ’ |
| 23 | This has meant that common law and equity have developed alongside one another and equitable principles have helped to extend the bounds of remedies available . |
| 24 | Two years of stability after a long period of severe hyperinflation have meant that Argentine publishing has begun to show some solidly healthy results . |
| 25 | Copper mining accounts for 86 per cent of Zambia 's export revenues , although falling mineral prices have meant that overall revenue is well below the level hoped for . |
| 26 | Distortions and rigidities in the labour market have meant that rising unemployment has not been accompanied by a matching fall in wage rates . |