Example sentences of "[adv] mean [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ali was so mean that he was unlikely to buy advertising space , even for a religious edict , and , anyway , he had clearly found Robert 's words so offensive that he had , so far , been incapable of repeating them to anyone . |
| 2 | One woman was so mean that she turned out all the lights immediately they got into their bedroom . |
| 3 | And does the fact that one in four people in Britain now lives alone mean that we have finally achieved the highest aspirations of humanity , or that we are victims of an ideology of individualism that has distorted even our deepest relationships ? |
| 4 | He said it would be a mistake , ‘ a mistake in sentiment ; for it could only mean that we were embalming the corpse of something that is n't really dead and need n't die at all — an aesthetic mistake — because we do n't really want to have the taste of our schooldays established as a boundary for our whole lives ’ . |
| 5 | Receiving mercy from God can only mean that it will overflow , as a full cup runs over . |
| 6 | Since the BFS is non-degenerate this can only mean that it is not efficient . |
| 7 | Mr. Beloff submits that the requirement of notice to bodies , such as Winchester , was necessary to ensure that they did not breach the intervention notice , but in my view the limitation of the category of those entitled to be given notice to persons who will be prejudicially affected can only mean that it is the prejudice which brings with it the necessity to serve . |
| 8 | That can only mean that he found it , on the balance of probabilities , to have had a causative effect . |
| 9 | All these facts concerning the particular mechanisms of the paper industry added together meant that it was quite unlikely that Rembrandt would buy two batches of paper prepared by the same paper mill using the same mould . |
| 10 | I only meant that you have Joy , the gardener . |
| 11 | ‘ I only meant that it would not be suitable to go on the road with it . |
| 12 | So I think erm there is there is a difference between us in all of that , but that need n't necessarily mean that we wo n't identify a site in the future . |
| 13 | WHEN actors say they are ‘ resting ’ it does n't necessarily mean that they are lying on the sofa all day waiting for the phone to ring . |
| 14 | The armoured or plated dinosaurs include some species that seem too heavily burdened with protective armour to have been very active , but this does not necessarily mean that they had to be cold-blooded . |
| 15 | Even if numbers are there in profusion and quoted to several places of decimals this does not necessarily mean that they are reliable or useful . |
| 16 | These parents may have been disturbed or overwrought , but this does not necessarily mean that they were mistaken about their child 's illness . |
| 17 | It does n't necessarily mean that they 're unscrupulous in the way that they get their own way ; they just have very clear ideas and it 's impossible for them to see it any other way . ’ |
| 18 | Employers will , of course , want to make clear to you the level of personal responsibility you will be expected to take within the remit of your job description ( for a sample job description , see chapter 2 ) , but this does n't necessarily mean that they are trying to warn off the less confident . |
| 19 | This did not necessarily mean that they took a very exalted view of their own importance . |
| 20 | Furthermore , the fact that he sees them as two distinct individuals does not necessarily mean that they exist as two distinct individuals when they are not perceived . |
| 21 | Although that does not necessarily mean that they are good or bad managers , it may have an impact on the employees ' decision about whether they wish to be part of any bid . |
| 22 | But it did n't necessarily mean that they would stay together all the time the they may they may even fall out with one another . |
| 23 | the fact that , there might be a lot of unemployed people does n't nece around does n't necessarily mean that they feel that that they feel that they have a lot in common with each other , in terms of |
| 24 | Big animals tend to have big brains partly just because they are big , but this does n't necessarily mean that they are , in any interesting sense , ‘ cleverer ’ . |
| 25 | This takes a great deal of effort because simply having the potential for a greater reproductive success in females does not necessarily mean that they actual have ha actually have greater reproductive success . |
| 26 | But this does not necessarily mean that she can no longer be a religious person . |
| 27 | However , this does not necessarily mean that you need to do lots of different kinds of exercise . |
| 28 | It is important to keep in mind that being HIV positive does not necessarily mean that you will develop AIDS , or that you will die immediately . |
| 29 | However , the provision of services does not necessarily mean that you will use them . |
| 30 | This last point does not necessarily mean that you have to be using a page description language but , for the moment at least , it amounts to the same thing . |