Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] it means " in BNC.

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1 When learners look up a word or phrase they need to know what it means , but they also need to know how to use it .
2 Thus , when we see an increase in the numbers , it is difficult to know what it means , Social research other than the obvious fact that more children live at home while legally in care .
3 She is to know what it means for her husband to " rule " over her .
4 ‘ No-one 's supposed to know what it means — most people think we 've done something odd with the word tartan . ’
5 I want to know what it means to me .
6 Unless users are involved in helping to define what it means to work in an empowering way , in the training which enables this to happen and in other ways in the planning , delivery and evaluation of services , it will be another case of users being ‘ done to ’ by professionals .
7 You just have to do what it means like .
8 if people know how to interpret what it means to be carrying a baby in a dream , please
9 We can at least begin to understand the human life and affection and anger and doubts and suffering and death of God in a way that we could not possibly begin to understand what it means for him to be God .
10 truth transcends all concrete or particular instances of truth yet particular instances of truth are necessary in order to understand what it means to speak of absolute Truth .
11 Is it erm the national parks and greenbelt or I 'd like to understand what it means .
12 But they have not concluded that it is a useless and mistaken speculative enterprise to consider what it means to say that something ‘ exists ’ .
13 A simple way to appreciate what it means is to visualise the Spectra line being passed down a hollow tube ( the ‘ sleeve ’ ) until it appears at the other end .
14 Intensive indoor rearing of livestock is relatively new and people are only just beginning to realise what it means for the animals .
15 ‘ It is much , much longer and it is only now that you have time to realise what it means to you .
16 Particular religions , while not embodying the fullness of Truth are necessary to convey what it means to speak of absolute Truth or Ultimate Concern .
17 Like me , you 'll begin to see what it means when you get a bit further on .
18 But unless one is blind , or does not know the language , surely one would not be likely to ask what it means to say that something is white ?
19 In these we shall attempt to say what it means to be social , for in that attempt lies a further definition of ‘ mind ’ .
20 The problem is to define the meaning of conditionals , to say what it means to say that if kangaroos had no tails they would topple over , to say exactly what conditionals mean .
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