Example sentences of "[verb] mean to " in BNC.
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| 1 | What this power has meant to the scientific and industrial users involved in the ECSP was made apparent during the project 's second annual seminar last month . |
| 2 | The prospect of a betrayal of everything News on Sunday has meant to so many people is there … |
| 3 | It 's always good , too , to hear how much being a winner has meant to you . |
| 4 | I 've had a wonderful run , and I 've enjoyed it hugely and I just ca n't say what it has meant to me over the past four marvellous Ryder Cups . |
| 5 | Certainly the political situation has meant to both types have possibly served beyond the time that they would have served had the SAAF had access to an open world market . |
| 6 | Town Mayor Coun Frank Platt will be talking on today 's BBC Radio 1 Simon Bates Show , spelling out what the success has meant to the town and how the council and its partners plan to promote environmental awareness . |
| 7 | In Saussure 's theory we identify and attach meaning to an individual word in a sequence by placing it mentally against the background of other words , not present in the sequence , which are both similar and different to it . |
| 8 | 17.46 By building on the experiences of earlier key stages pupils should be made aware of the following range of functions of writing : ( a ) — primarily to communicate meaning to others : reporting , narrating , persuading , arguing , describing , instructing , explaining ; ( b ) — for thinking and learning : recollecting , organising thoughts , reconstructing , reviewing , hypothesising ; ( c ) — using language in aesthetic and imaginative ways . |
| 9 | O'Toole and Finch even attended his funeral but — probably having drunk a little more than they 'd meant to , to ease their grief — they found themselves at the wrong funeral and mourning over the wrong body being buried . |
| 10 | He 'd meant to . |
| 11 | With a few words a woman can give meaning to a whole day 's struggle , and a man will be very grateful . |
| 12 | These , while reflecting the findings of academic research , would use local resources to vivify and give meaning to the programmes which were developed . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , in ordinations of vegetation , the regeneration characteristics of assemblages of species may give meaning to the observeddistribution of vegetation types , rather than the terrestrial features of the environment . |
| 14 | A ‘ good ’ book needs to have meaning for the individual reader and it must bring meaning to what is experienced in our daily lives . |
| 15 | She had n't quite determined what it was going to mean to her . |
| 16 | Unless they become tribesmen when they acquire national membership they will lack those affiliations and loyalties below the level of nation which are identical in kind to national loyalty , and which sustain and give meaning to the existence of born Libyans : a system which derives nationhood from family and tribe does not easily accommodate immigrants . |
| 17 | These are often vital for a beginner , because they give meaning to the tasks involved . |
| 18 | Even for philosophers , one suspects , it is less the philosophy than these episodes that give meaning to their own lives . |
| 19 | Furthermore , I am hypothesising that , on occasions , they collectively develop shared myths to account to themselves how they relate politically to each other in their different roles within the complex organization of a business enterprise and so give meaning to life at work . |
| 20 | ( Ullman 's work is thus closer to the spirit of Kant , and may be thought of as an attempt to articulate the intuitions and categories of space which structure and give meaning to the input stimulus . ) |
| 21 | They are part of an armoury of concepts , conventions and practices that give meaning to and protect the writer 's own social formation and specifically their own place within it . |
| 22 | What they are writing about in reality are the ideal standards of their own social group , those that give meaning to their work practice even if they do not always live up to them . |
| 23 | Meditation , yoga , and psychotherapy have all been taken up by Westerners as ways of helping themselves cope , and give meaning to their lives . |
| 24 | I was going to put down roots , achieve something , give meaning to my existence . |
| 25 | Because of this , humans ' actions are meaningful : they define situations and give meaning to their actions and those of others . |
| 26 | A basic starting point for us is , then , that concepts and theories give meaning to potentially observable things and events , and in this sociology is like other sciences . |
| 27 | Themes like " rites of passage " or " festivals " can so attract attention to sociological aspects of religion , that the impression is given to pupils that religion is about how people organize themselves and give meaning to their lives — that the essence of religion is manufactured by societies and by people . |
| 28 | Marris suggests that this personal experience can also be a social phenomenon : families and communities have to give meaning to events to cope with them . |
| 29 | All this means that individuals find it more difficult to give meaning to their lives and become isolated units , without a mutual interdependence with objects in their human environment . |
| 30 | On the other , and more importantly for us here , it gives meaning to the past in order to give meaning to the present . |