Example sentences of "means that the [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The need to reject unmatchable subjects because they are in some rare category of the extraneous variables means that the sample groups do not truly represent the population ; |
| 2 | Essentially this means that the peak organizations act as their own game-keepers … . |
| 3 | And that means that the insurance premiums should be cheaper — at between 2% and 3% of the capital at risk — than the 3%-plus normally charged by private political risk providers . |
| 4 | This generous depth , combined with a full-scale neck , a heavily arched back and a lightly-strutted belly , means that the guitar packs a lot more punch than it has any right to — more than a Martin 0–16 New Yorker , I 'd say , although that 's only from memory . |
| 5 | A fault in the drying cycle means that the machine overheats and can catch fire . |
| 6 | The trading consequences of such a development possibly means that the supplier risks becoming a " captive " , subject to a potentially catastrophic threat of the withdrawal of the buyers patronage . |
| 7 | This means that the product details will be stored permanently and can not be altered afterwards . |
| 8 | The mobility of vast sums of transnational capital means that the investment strategies of TNCs are crucial to , but largely beyond the control of , domestic economic policy , and hence that state autonomy is reduced . |
| 9 | Now if C 1 and C 2 represent total capacitances in parallel with R 1 and R 2 respectively , the ratio between the output and input potential difference phasors of this circuit as a function of the pulsatance ο is readily shown to be Consequently , if C 2 is adjusted such that which means that the time constants of the two parallel R-C combinations are the same , the potential difference division avoids phase shift , is given by equation ( 8.1 ) again and , in particular , is independent of frequency ! |
| 10 | This means that the accounting principles adopted must have an acceptable degree of objectivity in the sense that any accountant would produce an acceptable set of accounts from the same data . |
| 11 | Too short a list means that the input words will quite often be missed , and too long a list can mean that the list of allowable candidate strings is vast , and will often contain words that most people would not recognise as English words . |
| 12 | This means that the beam deflectors and gun need sweep the beam only through a small angle . |