Example sentences of "of [noun] means that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pace of change means that insights culled from even the most up-to-date research may still miss crucial dimensions of how mothers cope with poverty . |
| 2 | But while the large number of coins means that they give us a large quantity of information , their small size and the consequent brevity of their inscriptions greatly restricts the level of interpretation we can make from them compared with , say , a lengthy edict of a Roman emperor fully inscribed on stone . |
| 3 | Such a roundabout way of replication means that if one gets similar results in different species , they are worthy of publication in their own right . |
| 4 | Even today , the expense and shortage of houses means that many couples will start married life living with one or other of their sets of parents . |
| 5 | Constructivism seems to make this a logical impossibility , which of course means that no data could ever disprove the constructivist claims about what develops in infancy : any evidence that object knowledge ( the ‘ object concept ’ or ‘ object permanence ’ ) exists without reaching behaviour will not be judged to be evidence for object permanence — as a point of logic . |
| 6 | Such an approach to language presentation of course means that contexts have to be contrived to motivate this lexical modification and to guide the learner in the discriminating and differential use of grammatical analysis . |
| 7 | It is possible to produce lace from any stitch design , including those meant for Fair Isle , which of course means that you could knit a cardigan or jacket in Fair Isle or jacquard and then knit a lace sweater using the very same stitch pattern to supplement it . |
| 8 | That of course means that the police pay for petrol out of their own pockets and that is an absolute disgrace . |
| 9 | This of course means that in principle the same minor arousal manipulation may impair the performance of one subject and yet improve the performance of a different subject and nonetheless remain consistent with an overall inverted-U relationship . |
| 10 | This of course means that we have said farewell to who operated the weighbridge for almost five years . |
| 11 | Following amendments to update our Constitution approved at the last Annual General Meeting held on 27th April 1985 , three members of the Executive Committee will retire annually , which of course means that it will be necessary in future to hold elections each year to fill these vacant places . |
| 12 | Also , this electronic method of cooking means that only the pan is heated , and the moment it is removed from the hob , energy consumption stops . |
| 13 | Cross-cutting membership of groups means that demands are tempered because people have different interests that are articulated through multiple associations . |
| 14 | The very fact that Barthes does not present his work in terms of a theory of ideology means that the interpretive basis on which he is operating can be withheld from the reader . |
| 15 | The sovereignty of Parliament means that it can create , abolish or amend the powers of local authorities as it determines . |
| 16 | Excess supply of labour means that households are rationed in the labour market : they can not sell the quantity of labour services they wish to at current wages and prices . |
| 17 | Higher wage rates increase marginal cost , but a higher marginal physical product of labour means that less extra workers are needed to make an additional unit of output , thus reducing marginal cost . |
| 18 | Knowledge of the properties of shapes means that any exemplars can be recognized as such and distinguished from non-exemplars However , some pupils recognize some exemplars of a particular shape as such and not others . |
| 19 | The preponderance of pictures means that the sparse text glosses over some points and tantalises on others . |
| 20 | The square law of force means that both alternating and direct currents are registered but there is an essentially square-law scale which is cramped at one end . |
| 21 | The overriding criterion of speed means that they have to be written in a traditional programming language , such as FORTRAN . |
| 22 | Kelsen further holds , in one of his most mysterious doctrines , that the primacy of the principle of delegation means that even a determination outside the frame is valid and binding unless and until set aside by a higher decision . |
| 23 | The era of local management of schools means that the traditional spending function associated with capitation has to be replaced with a whole school budgetary process and plan . |
| 24 | The chronic nature of AIDS means that people 's needs are many and varied . |
| 25 | The adoption of this model of pedagogy means that the teacher is necessarily engaged in research as an aspect of teaching and this research too has its own character and its own criteria of relevance and success . |
| 26 | The imposition of obligations means that the parties form similar expectations about the behaviour of the third party that they can enforce if the third party does not comply . |
| 27 | The political complexion of Scotland means that any proposed change to the NHS has tended to be greeted with a mixture of suspicion and resistance . |
| 28 | The interactive nature of marriage means that such actions can have escalating effects . |
| 29 | ‘ Modern economics , as well as the geography of the whole of Ireland means that ultimately — and ultimately can be a very long way away — our Labour Party policy on reunification is the one that will be endorsed . |
| 30 | The concept of marketing means that your advertising agency account personnel should have marketing as well as advertising experience and that the research function should be represented within the agency . |