Example sentences of "have mean [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The conditions of the farm-workers during the 1890s made gleaning essential : a loss of the gleaned corn would have meant actual hunger to many a farm-worker 's family during the ensuing year . |
| 2 | It would have meant utter devastation . ’ |
| 3 | If it was merely a technical matter , personal computers would have meant increased autonomy for office workers just as Apple 's founders predicted . |
| 4 | When a craftsman adds his father 's name to his signature it can often be shown that the father was a craftsman too ( e.g. above , p. 34 ) ; and the practice may regularly have meant that . |
| 5 | It would also have meant higher administrative costs which would have had to have been borne by charge payers . |
| 6 | A squire 's trick , the Corn Laws , banning the import of cheap foreign corn — which would have meant cheap bread in the cities — so that the squires , who grew the stuff on those ancestral lands of theirs could charge as much as they liked for it . |
| 7 | For Charles it may have meant political survival , for perhaps he really would have been tonsured had he been defeated . |
| 8 | This would have meant extra guards were needed on the camps , and would have forced the British soliders to use force . |
| 9 | It occurs to me now that the man might just possibly have meant this in a humorous sort of way ; that is to say , he intended it as a bantering remark . |
| 10 | For example , when price inflation was running at about 12 per cent last summer , buying on HP would have meant monthly payments about 10 per cent higher than those needed to save up and buy the same thing later . |
| 11 | It would have meant seven hundred vacancies and work for the jobless . |
| 12 | That would have meant some twelve hundred acres freed for building , a catastrophic thought . |
| 13 | Promotion would have meant more hours at the workroom , plus a not inconsiderable amount of travelling around the country , and she had decided that she would wait until her daughter went to school before considering such a career move . |
| 14 | However , timeshare does n't have to mean that . |
| 15 | This does not have to mean increasing agricultural output . |
| 16 | If you wish to allow the archways to be portals ( and this does n't have to mean all of them ! ) , then the adventurers can reach one or more of the areas shown beyond the archways . |
| 17 | Of course that would have to mean Open Software Foundation founders Hewlett-Packard Co , Digital Equipment Corp and IBM Corp taking part . |
| 18 | Of course that would have to mean Open Software Foundation founders Hewlett-Packard Co , Digital Equipment Corp and IBM Corp taking part . |
| 19 | Nuclear power does not have to mean nuclear weapons ; but who will believe this when these two countries appear to have blurred the distinction ? |
| 20 | Tackling patches of snow in modern , lightweight footwear does n't have to mean wet feet . |