Example sentences of "mean that [noun] [noun pl] [vb mod] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Away from the South East , in particular , lower land prices mean that clean-up expenses would be a much higher proportion of any investment , making many developments uneconomic . |
| 2 | The effective teacher of the 1990s can not simply be the skilled , classroom practitioner ; the evolution of the National Curriculum and the dominant consumer ideology mean that history teachers should be as careful and professional in the presentation of the case for history as they are in their curricular activities . |
| 3 | Changing demography and limited resources mean that manpower issues will be increasingly important for the provision of health services in the years to come , not only in less glamorous specialties such as old age psychiatry but in all areas of medicine . |
| 4 | This meant that state pensions would be reduced , but the private scheme must then guarantee to at least make up the difference . |
| 5 | In our example this would mean that storage positions would be required for the file . |
| 6 | Although the formula means that the higher the validity the greater the return , it also means that selection tests can be worth using even when their validity is low , so long as their cost is also low . |
| 7 | And the new system must be fraud-resistant : that means that income subsidies must be dependent on farm-size too . |
| 8 | In practice , this means that mortgage loans may be available for small-scale workshops , derelict but sound houses which would otherwise be abandoned , houses with energy-saving features and organic smallholdings . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , the radioactivity imparted to the pebbles must be weak and transient for obvious health reasons , and this means that radioactivity detectors must be very near the pebbles before they are located , thus increasing the tedium of the experiments . |