Example sentences of "it mean to " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Television had brought golf to the working class and for just a moment television gave us an idea of what it meant to them . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I think that he , who could have had as many friends as he wished , never realized how much it meant to a lonely and friendless person to have a friend , to be seen walking with him in the rose-red streets of Salamanca , to be able to go to a concert or an art museum with him , to have him opposite me at dinner in even the meanest , cheapest restaurant . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ( Births and mothers willing ! ) b ) Study day reports ? c ) Reports/write ups of visits and meetings ? d ) What it meant to me . |
| 11 | If it was , I do n't know why he kept it or what exactly it meant to him . |
| 12 | Ask someone else to justify how much it meant to us . |
| 13 | How much it meant to us when she brought her Waterford tumbler up onto the stage with her , settled her feathers and her sequins and then looked calmly round until there was complete silence . |
| 14 | Lee sat with her hand gripped tightly around the curved handle of a pint mug of beer and tried to work out who could have decorated the rostrum with this masochistic phrase and when and why and what it meant to the writer and whether the evening 's entertainment was aware of the invitation signalling beneath her feet . |
| 15 | ‘ That 's why I cried a bit when I scored , because I knew how much it meant to them . |
| 16 | I just want to read three anecdotes which , and I mean I 've given you sort of odd statistics and the advantage of anecdotes is that they actually put flesh on the bones I think , and they really give you a sense of what it meant to be er a peasant in China in the nineteen thirties . |
| 17 | ‘ Constanza says that she felt so much for her mother , even if she did not understand then what it meant to her to be cut off from Italy , from Rome . |
| 18 | She had never liked the arrangement that had installed her in the Ward household , but having heard the tragic story , and knowing how much it meant to the woman who had rescued her from a life of loneliness , how could she refuse ? |
| 19 | It was unreasonable of him to expect her to know what it meant to people like Mrs Appleby to receive a visit from an employer . |
| 20 | Perhaps when we stopped asking what it meant to be fighting a war in Northern Ireland . |
| 21 | I turned to an investigation of my own family and my class background , and what it meant to be a woman … = This was the starting point of a project on ‘ my history ’ which I began by tentatively examining photographs of myself and ended by taking control over how I wanted to be photographed . |
| 22 | For several years they upheld the Pankhurst strategy of concentration on one single issue , though for Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence the suffragette campaign increasingly meant more than acquisition of the vote : ‘ It meant to women the discovery of their own identity , the sources within of purpose , power , and will . ’ |
| 23 | But now , at this moment , she understood his inadequacy in personal terms , realized what it meant to him not to be able to move people , not to be able to find the encouraging word , the inspiring slogan . |
| 24 | He understood what it meant to be sixteen . |
| 25 | Sir Lionel Russell , with a view from within the CNAA and the local authorities , said that he had never understood Crosland 's Woolwich speech and why he made it , and had doubts about the concentration in polytechnics because of the disappointment it meant to other colleges . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm so sorry , ’ she said gently , well aware of how much it meant to her . |
| 27 | Now workers control , that 's what it meant to me . |
| 28 | Quite clearly what it meant to the average rate payer was seven pound a year . |
| 29 | What does it mean to be ‘ English ’ when so many people are disenfranchised in this country ? |
| 30 | What does it mean to the youngster ? |