Example sentences of "what [is] mean [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This is what 's meant to be forming our character , remember ? |
| 2 | So you might be cleaning a portrait of what 's meant to be an Italian noblewoman , and gradually uncover a suckling baby . |
| 3 | If you do n't know what 's true , or what 's meant to be true , then the value of what is n't true , or is n't meant to be true , becomes diminished . |
| 4 | But the end of something ought to be the start of something else , and I ca n't yet feel what 's meant to be beginning . |
| 5 | I raise my glass to Victor , and give what 's meant to be a shamefaced grin but probably looks like a careless . |
| 6 | And how do you hit the base of a thumb without dislocating what 's meant to be grasping a ski-pole for the next week ? |
| 7 | Coal flecked bacon and sausage will be a sharp reminder of reality in what 's meant to be a complete surrender to fantasy . |
| 8 | Do you believe violent death leaves a kind of surge of energy behind it which is really what 's meant by ghosts ? ’ |
| 9 | To investigate what 's meant by " the college experience " . |
| 10 | To help you understand what 's meant by better college writing . |
| 11 | The ping pong ball is just to show what 's meant by breathing in . |
| 12 | The biographer of Edward the Confessor shows us ( in what is meant to be a panegyric ) the picture of a thoroughly idle king , who spent much of his time ‘ in the glades and woods in the pleasures of hunting ’ . |
| 13 | If the meaning of an utterance does not wholly reside in the semantic meaning , and if people can mean quite different things with the same words , how do human beings interpret — usually quite accurately — what is meant from what is said ? |
| 14 | What is meant by the term ‘ literal ’ ? |
| 15 | It all depends of course on what is meant by ‘ the feminine ’ . |
| 16 | I agree , and this can stand as a cogent it incomplete description of what is meant by a political homosexuality . |
| 17 | ( That , after all , is what is meant by the external cause of a daily rhythm. ) for example , could we not argue that the plant could move its leaves in response to the sun ; the shore-dwelling creature leave its burrow in the mud when the tide recedes ; or the diurnal or nocturnal animal respond to sunrise and sunset ? |
| 18 | The quite understandable confusion comes in the area of just what is meant by persuasion and permission . |
| 19 | The DUP can argue that part of what is meant by being a unionist is that one should be teetotal and sabbatarian , opposed to homosexuality and divorce . |
| 20 | What is meant by this is that people begin to come to terms with what has happened . |
| 21 | It is therefore always desirable to spell out in detail what is meant by ‘ similar style ’ . |
| 22 | What is meant by saying that such a classification is ‘ natural ’ ? |
| 23 | This is , of course , what is meant by dramatic playing as it was defined in Chapter Three , the mode of dramatic behaviour espoused by Peter Slade . |
| 24 | Anselm appears to argue that merely understanding what is meant by the word God makes it clear that God exists . |
| 25 | However , there is a different form of uncertainty that can not possibly help the theist 's case , and that is uncertainty about what is meant by talking about God . |
| 26 | Given that the theist believes that defining God involves thinking beyond the limits of thought , can he or she also fulfil the demand that a clear explanation be given of what is meant by the word ‘ God ’ ? |
| 27 | Before considering the legal enforcement of school attendance in depth it is necessary to understand what is meant by school absenteeism or ‘ truancy ’ . |
| 28 | There clearly is much disagreement among academics and professionals about what is meant by ‘ truancy ’ . |
| 29 | Furthermore , what is meant by economic development has also changed . |
| 30 | We are half-hearted creatures , fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us , like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he can not imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea . |