Example sentences of "of [Wh det] it mean [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Television had brought golf to the working class and for just a moment television gave us an idea of what it meant to them . |
| 2 | Carrying the banner of the nuclear industry , it was well aware of what it meant to be a target for the new generation of environmentalists . |
| 3 | In the early 1950s the anthropologist A. Irvin Hallowell reconsidered the whole issue in the light of what it meant to be a human person . |
| 4 | I just want to read three anecdotes which , and I mean I 've given you sort of odd statistics and the advantage of anecdotes is that they actually put flesh on the bones I think , and they really give you a sense of what it meant to be er a peasant in China in the nineteen thirties . |
| 5 | It is a very damaging doubt and needs to be blocked firmly by a decisive reaffirmation of what it means for Christianity to be true . |
| 6 | Our aim so far has been to show that the " stylistic variant " view of style , which supports the dualist 's conviction that style can be distinguished from message , can lead to a more precise understanding of what it means for a writer to choose this rather than that way of putting things . |
| 7 | It does , however , have a missionary vision of what it means to be truly human , derived partly from rational reflection on human capacities and desires , but supremely from its conviction that we glimpse true humanity in the life , death and teaching of Jesus . |
| 8 | If you can understand Berlin then perhaps it is also possible to make some sense of what Europe may now become and of what it means to be a European . |
| 9 | Although the evangelicals in the DUP are clearly out of step with most Ulster Protestant voters , they still represent the ideological centre of unionism , of what it means to be a Protestant . |
| 10 | Earlier in the book we examined the essence of what it means to be a person . |
| 11 | These inward struggles for wholeness as a person lie at the heart of what it means to be a Christian . |
| 12 | In a world that substitutes power for relationships , lust for love and magic for the true love of God , we will always have to fight to express the truth of what it means to be truly human . |
| 13 | Despite the risks , Jonathan flies for the sheer joy of exploring his potential , of extending the boundaries of what it means to be a seagull . |
| 14 | That , I believe , is the real test of our fellowship and is right at the heart of what it means to be a responsible member of a Baptist church practising as we do the principle of congregational government . |
| 15 | Occasionally we hear of staff abuse and there is outrage , but more often than not we simply do not think of what it means to be old or shut away . |
| 16 | They have intimate experience of what it means to be rejected , forgotten , isolated . |
| 17 | If aggression and violence are part and parcel of what it means to be human , then why is it that there exist societies where aggressive or violent behaviour is conspicuous by its absence ? |
| 18 | The title of the Conference was ‘ Peace , Action , and the Concept of Self ’ , the overall focus being explications on indigenous ideas of what it means to be a human being , how the associated attributes are conceptualized , and patterns of behaviour . |
| 19 | War is popularly perceived as part and parcel of what it means to be human , and , with ever increasing deadly weapons , the devastating impact of war is consequently accepted as inevitable . |
| 20 | I now wish to look at some Chewong words that pertain to inner states and relate these to ideas of what it means to be human . |
| 21 | An example of what it means to be brave ( or not fearful ) was provided by myself . |
| 22 | While highlighting the issue of disappearances , entertainment and big names can soften the perception of what it means to be ‘ disappeared ’ . |
| 23 | ‘ He who controls the past controls the future ’ is the message of his last utopia : a sense of history is ultimately power , since a people is guided and governed by a collective sense of what it means to itself and to the world , and history gives it that sense , and only history . |
| 24 | All three Synods have some common features , a desire to be attentive to the circumstances of today 's world , a desire to deepen our mutual understanding of what it means to be the church , following our different callings and collaborating in our common mission , and a call to renew our sense of being an evangelising church . |
| 25 | The reopening of this northern hinterland , however , could well change the Greeks ' view of what it means to be a member of the Community . |
| 26 | Events in many countries over the last few years must have re-awakened in every English soul , an awareness of what it means to be English . |
| 27 | Some are blue and some pink , some have pockets and some not , but they are all examples of what it means to be a shirt : they all exemplify ‘ shirtness ’ — the universal . |
| 28 | But it is still the case that through the reading of it in church a certain image of what it means to be male or female is conveyed . |
| 29 | It may well be said that the patriarchal understanding of what it means to be male is abandoned . |
| 30 | They ease the pain of lived contradictions , furnishing missing links between origins and destinies , stitching together scattered histories into a singular totalizing consciousness of what it means to be black or Muslim , Palestinian or Jew . |