Example sentences of "meant giving " in BNC.
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| 1 | But dividing up the existing budget to reflect new priorities meant giving more in some areas and less in others . |
| 2 | I had imagined that friendship meant giving up privacy , and closeness meant complete submersion in the other person . |
| 3 | But it will be remembered that in Anselm 's system only justice makes free , and in this case , justice meant giving Canterbury an archbishop . |
| 4 | At one level this meant giving each town or neighbourhood the cinema it deserved and having a range of cinemas in down-town areas . |
| 5 | ‘ Vertical ’ competition meant giving weekday contracts to one company and weekend contracts to another . |
| 6 | ‘ When I took up music , it meant giving up all thought of a family . |
| 7 | For him , this meant giving master classes in duplicity in order to keep both Axis and Allies in play for as long as he needed to achieve his economic , military and , above all , territorial objectives . |
| 8 | Only better priests could achieve satisfactory relations with their parishioners , and producing better priests meant giving thought to the clerical estate as a whole . |
| 9 | But to find her meant giving him the slip , and she had n't been too successful at that the last time . |
| 10 | ‘ When leaving England in September to live in Paris I resolved to change my life style completely , which of course meant giving up Medau ! |