Example sentences of "[noun] [noun pl] [adv] mean that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Setting definite population targets often means that more wide-ranging efforts to improve health and wellbeing are neglected . |
| 2 | ‘ … the impracticability of individual copyright holders administering their performing rights effectively means that membership of a performing right society is the only way in which composers , songwriters and music publishers can adequately protect their rights and receive what is due to them for the public use of their work . ’ |
| 3 | The council 's standing orders now mean that , except under special circumstances , all disposals of land and property are dealt with by public auction or tender . |
| 4 | The high surface temperatures also mean that there can be no accessible repositories of water in which the water exists as H 2 O whether as a separate phase or in some molecular combination . |
| 5 | Our restructuring of the support arrangements also means that students ' maintenance costs are now shared more fairly between the students themselves , their parents and the taxpayer . |
| 6 | The advent of microcomputers with word processing programs now means that the school librarian or teacher or pupil can have the facilities of the stand.alone word processor without the expense . |
| 7 | The delay in placing children in Total Communication programmes frequently means that they are seen as ‘ failures ’ , both by parents and by themselves . |
| 8 | The great expansion of fossil discoveries now meant that paleontologists were increasingly confident in their ability to plot the course of each group 's development . |
| 9 | Rapid production in modern food factories usually means that food has to be weighted into packets , cans and jars automatically . |
| 10 | For example , the constraints of women 's lifestyles and their domestic and family responsibilities often mean that they are effectively discriminated against in terms of availability for election and service . |
| 11 | However , the cost of repairs , lack of heirs and financial or family problems inevitably mean that every two or three years a great house faces sale and break-up . |
| 12 | Low house prices here mean that even though Northern Ireland is bottom of the UK salary league with an annual average of £15,012 , people can still afford to get on to the housing ladder . |
| 13 | Family commitments now meant that he just did the occasional Cowes Week and Club Race . |