Example sentences of "[vb mod] only mean [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the most satisfactory response could only mean a major thrust coordinated at national level . |
| 2 | A more serious challenge to the text , however , came from a ‘ higher authority ’ — which could only mean the pope — on 24 November when the Secretary of State asked that explicit mention be made of Pius XI 's and Pius XII 's doctrine on marriage , which would not only condemn all forms of artificial contraception ( at this point , before Humanae Vitae , such a ban was not a foregone conclusion ) , but would also subordinate conjugal love to the procreation of children as the purpose of marriage . |
| 3 | He was far too honourable to approach Asquith with a deal which could only mean the compromise of both their principles for a period of artificial power , not unlike the last years of the Coalition ; and he saw that an anti-socialist alliance could only lead , in the end , to a major Labour victory . |
| 4 | Periods of low income when workers are in their 50s and 60s can only mean a sustained period of poverty in old age itself . |
| 5 | In much of his fiction , early and late , Waugh turns from comedy to the haunting thought of a lost Eden ; and in a nation that had once been the first industrial civilisation that can only mean a pastoral world . |
| 6 | But academics at Oxford are outraged and say it can only mean a Jewish Messiah . |
| 7 | They can only mean the magic word — Connie ! |
| 8 | Losing oneself in the other when one party is more powerful than the other can only mean the one submitting to the other . |
| 9 | Surely that can only mean the collapse of the bus industry , less safe services and less access for people with disabilities . |
| 10 | Note that on a Friday or a Saturday , these will coincide ; and given the rule that today and tomorrow pre-empt calendrical day names , on Wednesday and Thursday , next Thursday can only mean the Thursday of next week . |