Example sentences of "[Wh det] mean [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Signe drove the old VW carefully — she was a good driver — and insisted upon taking me the prettiest way to Inkeroinen , which meant through the little side roads around Kouvola . |
| 2 | As a permanent secretary in the Department of the Environment I was an accounting officer , which meant as a civil servant I was responsible directly to parliament , which also meant I regularly had to go before the Public Accounts Committee . |
| 3 | The answer was he usually ignored them , which meant of course that some entries were obscured and the whole was not as clean as it may have been but it was certainly speedy . |
| 4 | In each case , London led the way , but was the first into recession , which meant in the long run that the relationship between the value of property in different areas was maintained . |
| 5 | As Sir Ronald Syme has pointed out , the Romans had a special veneration for authority , precedent , and tradition , and they greatly objected to change unless it was thought to be in accord with ancestral custom , which meant in practice the sentiments of the oldest living senators . |
| 6 | Considerations of comity dictated a practice of judicial self-restraint , which meant in effect that a party seeking to obtain evidence abroad in a Hague Convention county must resort first to the procedures provided by the Convention . |
| 7 | ( And that was another thing — fancy being told to call her by a name which meant in French not only ‘ stepmother ’ and ‘ mother-in-law ’ , but ‘ beautiful Mama ’ too … . |
| 8 | There were by 1854 seven sections , each with its own President , Vice-Presidents and Secretaries : Mathematics & Physics ; Chemistry ; Geology ; Zoology & Botany ; Geography & Ethnology ; Statistics ; and Mechanical Science , which meant in effect Engineering . |
| 9 | Even after the first national curriculum was quietly abandoned , elementary schools remained under the general regulations of the Board of Education , which meant in effect , continuing to teach history . |
| 10 | And Hardy 's were probably the best known fishing tackle shop in the world and it got into the hands of one of the Hardy 's brothers and he said , ‘ May we market it under your name ? ’ and I said , ‘ My God , I 'd rather have that than a knighthood ’ — this was some years ago — and then Hardy 's were rationalized , which means of course that everything costs twice as much and there was n't as much in the shop . |
| 11 | Which means of course if you work for Trading Standards , as I did until very recently if you work for Trading Standards you tend to get a rather jaundiced view of shopping . |
| 12 | It 's and it 's quite near the Brumrose steelworks which means of course there 's a lot of unemployment there ! closed . |
| 13 | A lot of erm group one plans are , there are about ten thousand plans that are showing an arrears status at the moment , and premium has been missed some time ago , it 's not a , not a current premium , which means on the fifteenth of June or the first of July we will automatically go in and pick up two premiums , we 'll t we 'll try and collect the arrears without having notified the client of it in any way at all . |
| 14 | Eurotunnel 's only hope seems to lie in satisfying the banks ' technical adviser that his forecast can be reduced — which means at least to the contractors ' £7.5bn , if not to Eurotunnel 's own £7bn estimate . |
| 15 | There is no easy solution to this one , other than doing the first ones at a safe altitude , which means at some speed since it is difficult to fly slowly at any height or distance . |
| 16 | Philpotts has 12 fit outfielders to choose from tonight , which means at least one junior on the bench . |
| 17 | The new channel was dredged to about 10.3 metres below high water ordinary spring tide which means at low water of the same tide approximately 5.5 metres of water was available . |
| 18 | As I 've said the Policy Committee guideline was that we should set a budget within the range seventy two million to seventy three point three million , which means at the lower level , if you go for the lower level er to which says for ninety four five about almost exactly a million pounds . |
| 19 | I mean that they have what they call ‘ access ’ to the water , which means to the docks which means to the port which means to the open sea which means to the world . |
| 20 | I mean that they have what they call ‘ access ’ to the water , which means to the docks which means to the port which means to the open sea which means to the world . |
| 21 | I mean that they have what they call ‘ access ’ to the water , which means to the docks which means to the port which means to the open sea which means to the world . |
| 22 | I mean that they have what they call ‘ access ’ to the water , which means to the docks which means to the port which means to the open sea which means to the world . |
| 23 | In this chapter Lewis Carroll uses a word which is n't in the English dictionary , he uses a word he made up with his vivid imagination — ‘ Contrariwise ’ which means to be contrary . |
| 24 | Many of them have been slain , and those who still pursue their craft do so in large bands , which means for bad hunting , even while it keeps them alive . ’ |
| 25 | Ownership of the £300,000 Oxfordshire house was transferred to Pandora Maxwell last August , which means despite the debt the family will keep their home . |
| 26 | We do not have that penalty , but we have life imprisonment — which means between 20 to 30 years in the case of some of those convicted in the most serious cases . |
| 27 | However , as your elected officers we do feel responsible for ensuring that as a national organisation ; we continue to survive and grow which means above all that we have a continual influx of new members . |
| 28 | The new standards demand that by 1998 at least two per cent ( 40,000 ) of all new cars must emit no smog-producing gases at all , which means in effect that they must be powered by electricity . |
| 29 | It has no executive power , and its recommendations are not binding — which means in effect that the individual countries are being left to implement any proposals agreed at the meeting . |
| 30 | So Jacob called the name of the place Peniel , ’ ( which means in Hebrew ‘ The Face of God ’ ) ‘ saying , ‘ For I have seen God face to face , and yet my life is preserved . ’ ’ |