Example sentences of "[pron] we mean [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Barth thought that if we knew what we meant by the word ‘ God ’ , then God must exist . |
| 2 | The natural sciences were once used to point to what we meant by objective information , but quantum physics , for example , has shown that even observing situations can alter them . |
| 3 | In our final Report we defined carefully and at length what we meant by ‘ grammar ’ and by knowledge about language , and what kinds of programmes of study we thought appropriate . |
| 4 | To show what we meant by grammatical description we included two examples of how meaning is constructed in different kinds of language , both spoken and written . |
| 5 | So we resolved to lay out much more clearly what we meant by ‘ living together ’ , and to give every claimant involved in the procedure a printed explanation of the rule and our principles for administering it . |
| 6 | At least , most of the Board were and the rest of us were persuaded that it would be no bad thing , without , I confess , being precisely clear what we meant by that blessed word . |
| 7 | Now of course er we 've sold the er chain of chemists in Canada who might have sold bottles of aspirin but , before we sold the chain , there was another enormous quantity of bottles of aspirin which was n't defined , it was something which was introduced after , long after we defined what we meant by outputs of aspirin . |
| 8 | ‘ We 've both realised what we mean to each other . |
| 9 | 5 ) What we mean about campaigning needs to be teased out . |
| 10 | This does not mean that the old books can provide us with no concrete evidence from the past , but it does mean that old books must be read with delicacy ; with a sense that if we go blundering into them , assuming that they mean what we mean by words like sky , earth , history or nature we shall get everything wrong . |
| 11 | The definition of gold is simply what we mean by the word , the complex idea or nominal essence we have in our minds when we speak of it . |
| 12 | What we mean by this , is that at times of great stress we can all be overwhelmed by the experience and find ourselves ‘ at sea ’ , not knowing what to do . |
| 13 | Just as the third principle , which rejected the idea that God is an object ‘ outside ’ the universe , clarified what we mean by ‘ transcendence ’ , so the first principle clarifies what we mean by ‘ immanence ’ . |
| 14 | Just as the third principle , which rejected the idea that God is an object ‘ outside ’ the universe , clarified what we mean by ‘ transcendence ’ , so the first principle clarifies what we mean by ‘ immanence ’ . |
| 15 | Before we go any further we need to define what we mean by stress . |
| 16 | It all depends on what we mean by the words ‘ discipline ’ and ‘ obedience ’ . |
| 17 | Let us be clear about what we mean by pro-social ( altruistic ) behaviour ? |
| 18 | Let us be clear about what we mean by disobedience : |
| 19 | This immediately raises the question of what we mean by the separation of two particles A and B. It seems the best we can do is argue that the two particles A and B can be considered as separate only when the individual wave packets cease to overlap . |
| 20 | Before we turn to the examination of the extent to which it is true to say of Parliament that it is supreme , it would be as well to make clear what we mean by the statement in the first place . |
| 21 | As we go on in our faith , we may be led into areas ‘ beyond reason ’ , but what we mean by this is beyond humanly discernible reasons and not in any sense against reason . |
| 22 | We could do worse than try to reach some understanding in the lesbian and gay communities of what we mean by this question . |
| 23 | We shall not linger over what we mean by choice , which even when narrowed to considered choice is a concept with blurred edges . |
| 24 | Indeed we no longer employ the word with full assurance , or are confident of what we mean by philosophical ‘ materialism ’ , now that we are forbidden to think of atoms as little balls out of which a universe could be constructed ; twentieth century physics has less substantial entities which would slip through one 's fingers . |
| 25 | My hypothesis is that these varying conceptions in the mind have real psychic and political consequences which ought to be taken into account when considering change strategies in organizations and , more fundamentally , when considering what we mean by the term ‘ quality of working life ’ . |
| 26 | It is important that we should be clear as to what we mean by Marxism . |
| 27 | However , it has been pointed out — most recently by Stan Gooch in his Cities of Dreams ( 1989 ) — that this is to take a rather narrow view of what we mean by civilization . |
| 28 | Here we need to pause to think about what we mean by spacetime . |
| 29 | We may have to review exactly what we mean by the word ‘ paradox ’ — and , at the same time , rewrite many of our ideas of logic . |
| 30 | Before looking at some examples of tool using among animals , it would be as well to be clear about what we mean by the term . |