Example sentences of "mean [conj] they [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This does not , however , mean that they then take up identical positions in relation to the problem of history . |
| 2 | I mean if they really sort of tried to make a story out of it and they could n't , they contacted the council offices and everyone was on holiday or nobody 'd answer the phone or what normally happens at council offices , they 'd say ‘ Oh , well , sod this , ’ and they 'd go away and they 'd do the , you know , write it up in a really nasty way so |
| 3 | I mean if they especially if they want you to do in the , the championship 's , they , you got the league and then they play er , a knock out competition do n't they ? |
| 4 | I mean if they ever do that to me I 'm just gon na fucking drive off . |
| 5 | The Serbian Volunteers were a force recruited under the puppet government of Gen Nedic to serve Serbian interests , although this meant that they frequently had to act in concert with the Germans . |
| 6 | Yet this meant that they also wanted to transcend the limitations of the Greek achievement in the light of the new faith . |
| 7 | Furthermore , the idea the Egyptians had of an eternal and immutable world meant that they never imagined any evolution of social conditions . |
| 8 | This , he claimed , meant that they sometimes had to act more rather than less on their own initiative . |
| 9 | The demonstration that such tasks can involve controlled processes does not mean that they always do , even tasks at the operational level may be performed as controlled processes , for example , when starting to drive an unusual vehicle . |
| 10 | Indeed , he may not mean that they ever are received in their simplicity . |
| 11 | While societies do themselves construct devices for specialising and separating out levels of meaning , this does not mean that they ever achieve in reality the claims that they make about such discourse . |
| 12 | Their inability to concentrate or order their thoughts means that they generally do not learn much at school , even though they may be quite intelligent . |
| 13 | Being book packagers by tradition also means that they immediately grasp the concept of exacting the maximum possible payback from their investments through as many diverse exploitations as possible of their information assets . |
| 14 | And most single people and er most young people in particular , fall outside that definition and that means that they really have no access to council housing of any kind and er they also find it very hard to get into the private rented sector , because of er the fact that 's it 's er , the rents are so high , and , and therefore they are at the mercy of erm basically the well , well loosely what one could describe as the bad landlords , the sharks , who will er exploit their situation . |
| 15 | But egalitarian feminists ' dependency on traditional psychological theory means that they often reproduce its limited formulations of subjectivity and gender . |
| 16 | Yeah , but that means that they still do occasionally |
| 17 | The Gulf of Tonkin and the Vietnamese frontier is the arbitrary point at which South-East gives way to North-East Asia — the industrial powerhouse of the Pacific , the region that most economists and businessmen mean when they idly refer these days to ‘ Asia ’ . |
| 18 | Clearly , the fact that ethnic minority parents do not request help can not be taken to mean that they fully understand the information they receive . |