Example sentences of "mean [was/were] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | What he meant was that his reluctant compatriots were so inward-looking that they could not perceive his genius . |
| 2 | What he really meant was that it was not in his interest or that of the intelligence services involved . |
| 3 | What she really meant was that the child 's affections were being alienated ; this was not wholly a fair charge . |
| 4 | What he meant was that there are numerous examples of repeating patterns , and embryos seem to like breaking up into repeated units . |
| 5 | Reading between the lines , what they meant was that they were not going to train people who might keel over and die before the CAB had had its money 's worth . |
| 6 | She has such a good head on her shoulders , ’ they had said , when what they really meant was that whilst Paula was a beauty , she was really very plain but they had to find something good to say about her . |
| 7 | What he meant was that you had to cover a lot of ground to find anything newsworthy . |
| 8 | What Yves meant was that in every act , in every gesture in the game , there is a degree of aggression . |
| 9 | I think what he meant was that it was easier on the man . |
| 10 | Perhaps what he really meant was that they could n't afford not to go to Nunes . |
| 11 | What this person meant was that they were more about me than Spain or Copenhagen . |
| 12 | When James Cannavino said last week that IBM Corp was not going to sell personal computer clones , what he meant was that the things would not carry an IBM logo — and so he could say that IBM was not selling them . |
| 13 | What this person meant was that they were more about me than Spain or Copenhagen . |
| 14 | From the scared tone of Dyson 's voice , Bob knew that what he meant was that he thought Eddy was dead . |
| 15 | ‘ All I meant was that I find it hard to imagine myself setting up home with someone else again . ’ |
| 16 | What it really meant was that when draft EEC legislation was being drawn up last year , for the permitted use of intense sweeteners , including saccharin , nobody remembered to include crisps and snacks . |
| 17 | That was how she described it to herself , although what it really meant was that he took her to bed whenever he felt like it and occasionally gave her an absent-minded smile backstage . |
| 18 | What this meant was that sitting MPs should no longer be reselected automatically by local parties just before a general election was held . |
| 19 | This was specifically endorsed by Lord Pearce in Esso where he explained that what Lord MacNaghten meant was that the adequacy of consideration was a key to oppression and that oppression is a key to reasonableness . |
| 20 | Thus in [ 30 ] the speaker might be taken to suggest that he did not mean that his childhood days had just gone : what he really meant was that they had vanished . |
| 21 | All it meant was that my career came to an end slightly ahead of schedule . ’ |
| 22 | What it did mean was that the presence of the killer pack effectively cut off that particular escape route if it were needed . |
| 23 | What I assume was meant was that his birth had somehow been retarded , so that he was born a day later . |
| 24 | What she had meant was that there was absolutely no chance of her joining his lists of conquests . |