Example sentences of "[adj] mean be " in BNC.
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| 1 | What this meant was n't certain , but it sounded good at the time . |
| 2 | What this meant was that sitting MPs should no longer be reselected automatically by local parties just before a general election was held . |
| 3 | The Jerusalem , or Early Church model , began to predominate , and this meant being with people rather than apart from them . |
| 4 | What " this meant is made crystal clear by the description of an army on the march in the Chartson des Lorrains : |
| 5 | What this means is that Christian Maronite domination of the Lebanese body politic appears to be effectively at an end . |
| 6 | What this means is that good old fashioned self-reliance could become a new health vogue of the Nineties . |
| 7 | What this means is that you 're the centre of attention and you 're waited on hand and ( of course ) foot . |
| 8 | Although the constitution of the Confederation contains detailed regulations on the powers of the federal government and on the content of federal policy , all this means is that whenever a centralising measure is proposed , they amend the constitution . |
| 9 | What this means is that only a relatively small proportion of the population is earning and has the burden of supporting a large number of old and young . |
| 10 | What this means is that the faster we go , the more the apparent wind direction swings forwards . |
| 11 | What this means is that the opportunity to make worthwhile teaching points , about the subject matter on display , will be missed . |
| 12 | What this means is that ships can now have some protection against guided bombs released from a great height . |
| 13 | What this means is that the output stage consists of two halves . |
| 14 | What this means is that far fewer people are putting pressure on their travel agents or package-tour operators than Elkington and Hailes were hoping for . |
| 15 | What this means is simply that each time you line up a shot in the viewfinder and before you press the button , you should look on it not as an individual shot as you would a still photograph hut as one of a group of shots . |
| 16 | Precisely what this means is not clear because presumably even in a socialist state it would have a necessary function in maintaining law and order . |
| 17 | What this means is that overall economic policy should be dictated by utilitarian considerations , aiming to improve the general welfare . |
| 18 | What this means is that the appearance , in the nonperspectival sense , can be identified by the use of a hypothetical statement . |
| 19 | What this means is that the rule-based competence which the monitor offers to the BSL learner is the already established grammatical knowledge of English . |
| 20 | What this means is that if we want to make realistic comparisons between species we have to make allowance for differences in the sizes of the animals concerned . |
| 21 | What all this means is that if non-Tories get the bit between their teeth , they have a chance . |
| 22 | What this means is : if I have a particular type of relationship with someone , I will enjoy the same relationship ( more or less ) with his or her sibling ( brother or sister ) . |
| 23 | What this means is that the taking of leisure is self-defeating ; the fact that one is one 's own boss adds to , rather than subtracts from , the psychological pressures to do housework . |
| 24 | Keeping to the domestic front for the moment , what this means is that the conclusions which women reach , no matter how carefully and intelligently they are worked out , can never have the status of decisions . |
| 25 | The implications of this approach for advertising personnel are considerable , and the best way to grasp what this means is to examine who works in advertising , and so begin to understand the hierarchy or power structures . |
| 26 | What this means is that the individual in public feels obliged to broadcast an unceasing stream of non-verbal signs , intended to inform others , whether they be acquaintances or more often otherwise , of the place which he or she expects to have in the undertakings which follow . |
| 27 | What this means is that B should have raised the substance of his Convention claim under any domestic procedure which was capable of giving him a remedy , including any avenues of appeal , unless , according to Commission practice , there were some reason for excusing him from doing so . |
| 28 | Quite what this means is unclear , but one can be sure that voters out on the Plains would not approve . |
| 29 | What this means is that science could not predict the probabilities of such singular histories for space-time . |
| 30 | What all this means is that going through a black hole is unlikely to prove a popular and reliable method of space travel . |