Example sentences of "what it mean " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he first reached the blissful shore of the redhead 's body , a peculiar idea occurred to him : he now knew at last what it meant to be absolutely modern ; it meant to lie on the shore of the redhead 's body . |
| 2 | White ceiling , white curtains shifting in a breeze , a huge bed neither would admit they had seen and what it meant . |
| 3 | And Niall got up and said , music to my ears , that Erin 's soil was n't green either but we all knew what it meant … |
| 4 | But the committee was hopelessly divided on what it meant by Christian hope — whether it was hope for peace and perfection in this world , or hope for a future life , or hope only of forgiveness at the last . |
| 5 | But the lessons he learned from those formative years were to stand him in good stead later on when he was to understand what it meant to be a director from first-hand experience . |
| 6 | What it meant in human terms was that black UK citizens excluded from their own country ( Britain ) were and still are being forced to live in countries where they have no right to live or work . |
| 7 | Television had brought golf to the working class and for just a moment television gave us an idea of what it meant to them . |
| 8 | When he read stories about Balder , Adonis and Bacchus , he was prepared to ‘ feel the myth as profound and suggestive of meanings beyond my grasp even tho ’ I could not say in cold prose ‘ what it meant ’ . |
| 9 | But what it meant to both of them was that all the money was frozen because there was a dispute over whose money was what and how much money had been spent — that was a problem for David and for Tony . |
| 10 | ‘ Over now , ’ Dot repeated , but she was n't sure what it meant and if she even wanted it over . |
| 11 | Dot had n't known what it meant . |
| 12 | For the sake of a quiet life he had given in to an unreasonable request and only now did he fully realize what it meant . |
| 13 | Intrigued , Mungo was about to ask his uncle what it meant when Stanley said : |
| 14 | The heated debates in Western Europe around the year 400 on the meaning of perfection had their roots in the uncertainty about what it meant to be a genuine Christian in a society of fashionable Christianity . |
| 15 | This remark did not go down well with Alcuin , who thought he was being criticized , but we can see what it meant to the late ninth-century writer who reported it . |
| 16 | In many ways Kylie grew up with us on Neighbours so everyone understood what it meant when she left . |
| 17 | ‘ I wonder what it meant , ’ she asked herself sleepily . |
| 18 | No one was quite sure what it meant but it sounded impressive . |
| 19 | It also transpired that parts of England ( east and south-east ) were put on full invasion alert at the time , but it seems that ‘ Cromwell ’ had been ignored in some places where the junior officers who happened to be on duty had not been let into the secret of what it meant . |
| 20 | Carrying the banner of the nuclear industry , it was well aware of what it meant to be a target for the new generation of environmentalists . |
| 21 | In the early 1950s the anthropologist A. Irvin Hallowell reconsidered the whole issue in the light of what it meant to be a human person . |
| 22 | ( Births and mothers willing ! ) b ) Study day reports ? c ) Reports/write ups of visits and meetings ? d ) What it meant to me . |
| 23 | ‘ We listened to the song and drew our own conclusions , but it did n't matter what it meant , ’ Nicholson recalled , ‘ because everyone was so stoned they could n't remember the words . |
| 24 | I had never really felt it before or known what it meant . |
| 25 | It recognized through its wording that the superpowers , the regional contestants and the local ones , had differing interpretations of what it meant . |
| 26 | Everyone knew what it meant . |
| 27 | Sean knew what it meant alright and was remembering all the prayers at home . |
| 28 | Was this what it meant , then — that tip-toe feeling ? |
| 29 | As she climbed the stairs Sally could hear the low voices and the giggles coming from the bedroom she shared with her sister and knew what it meant . |
| 30 | Anna hung back even more , frightened by the threat , though she was n't sure what it meant . |