Example sentences of "mean [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( See Types of Income ) Choices have to be made about what counts as income , and then further decisions are required to determine whether to sue gross income or disposable income , income before or after housing costs , and whether the average used is an arithmetic mean or a ‘ median ’ or mid-point in the distribution . |
| 2 | Now what was it , I mean or would you prefer anything else ? |
| 3 | but I do n't see , I 'm trying to make it like a genetic connection or something I mean or some kind of like you know I mean to me it 's just set up |
| 4 | what if , what does the basic m basics mean or basis ? |
| 5 | The erm type thing means what means little codes mean or does that give us any indication as to what these sites are ? |
| 6 | The more variable strata will therefore be more intensively sampled , leading to estimates of the population mean or total for this variable that are ‘ optimal ’ in the sense of having smallest possible variance . |
| 7 | It 's not capable of being frozen again you mean or what ? |
| 8 | I mean or anyway , it is n't her baby is it ? |
| 9 | I mean or is it just the author 's view of how |
| 10 | Jane is a disgruntled , mean and worldly woman who presents herself as the victim of the men she sets out to attract and soon sees through and rejects . |
| 11 | His voice was mean too : mean and foreign . |
| 12 | It was the in-between of that sludge-grey spring that stopped and started , flowers bursting out then drenched with sleet , blighted by snow ; skies grey and thundery , rain mean and seeping , wind a slinking greasy cur that has paddled through filthy city ponds and has nowhere to go . |
| 13 | Mean and selfish Jerome was . |
| 14 | Lean , mean and through your windscreen |
| 15 | On his return , Morrissey immediately appeared , mean and moody , on the cover of Record Mirror with the word FAKE stencilled into his neck in biro . |
| 16 | But since none of that applies to you , you will know what I mean and probably share my fondness for Munro window-shopping . |
| 17 | While this sort of dissatisfaction was being aired , the Manpower Services Commission , established in 1974 as an offshoot of the Department of Trade and Industry , was becoming increasingly important in the training of the young unemployed : the education service seemed more and more to be poor , mean and irrelevant when contrasted with the up-to-date and positively useful service of training . |
| 18 | It is permanently divisive , as well as educationally mean and unadventurous , to establish deliberately a kind of school within which the curriculum is so inward-looking that those who followed it could not , for example , hope to proceed to higher education or ultimately into one of the professions . |
| 19 | The poet sees in life a truth that gives significance to the otherwise mean and trivial things . |
| 20 | Mean and vile and sad . |
| 21 | Research is currently being carried out into cravings — why they start , what they mean and how to control them — and we can gain some reassurance and help from what has been learned so far . |
| 22 | The extent of these signal displays depends on the model , but with the help of the instruction book you will gradually learn to recognise what the signals mean and how they can help you to operate the camcorder to its best advantage . |
| 23 | The solar forcing term is defined by Q s = β L , where Q s is the solar forcing change at the top of the troposphere , L refers to the series of cycle-length departures from the 1765–1985 mean and β is a solar forcing scaling factor ( Wm -2 yr -1 ) . |
| 24 | I mean and and he he feels that er pressure groups like ourselves are very positive because it gives him a bit of weight when he 's arguing for things . |
| 25 | Mean and standard deviation of normally distributed results are shown ; otherwise median and range are given . |
| 26 | He writes : ‘ among [ the Dinka ] I had that experience of daily conversation which enables one to discriminate , as we take for granted in the language into which we were born , between what people mean and what they say . |
| 27 | Hard nosed grifters ( ‘ Do n't Start Me Talking ’ ) , streetwise honkies ( ‘ Born With The Blues ’ ) and dudes whose women left 'em lean , mean and dangerous ( everything else ) . |
| 28 | During the summer , these two weeds reviled each other , as fabulous creatures will ; the lowly weed accused its brother of grandiose , spendthrift ambitions , and the tall weed called the low weed mean and miserly . |
| 29 | It means " saying what you mean and meaning what you say " . |
| 30 | An essay tests your ability to analyse a given question , to develop a line of argument , to explain clearly what you mean and to express a point of view so as to persuade — if not always to convince — the reader of the strength of your case . |