Example sentences of "mean [that] he [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He 's precisely what anyone would expect of a drop-out Phys Ed basketball-playing retard , ’ Ellen said scornfully , ‘ by which I mean that he 's a jock with the brains of a dung beetle . |
| 2 | I just mean that he is so different from you … ’ |
| 3 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that while Jean-Marie Le Pen is legally entitled to come to this country , his obnoxious views on racism , immigration and nationality mean that he is simply not welcome in this country ? |
| 4 | How that might change his nature , there 's the question ’ mean that he is determined to become emperor , and if he did , he may well become a tyrant and abuse his power , although he seems very noble at the moment . |
| 5 | ‘ Do you mean that he 's dead or that he 's gone away ? ’ |
| 6 | But this does not mean that he is advocating head-hunting . |
| 7 | Everyone involved has to realize that the tasks are not relearned in an automatic sequence : the fact that the patient may be able to put on his sweater one day does not necessarily mean that he is immediately able to progress to putting on his trousers — indeed , he may have forgotten how to cope with the sweater the following day . |
| 8 | But this does not mean that he is able to shed his fear of some forms of animal life , or that he would be able to practise ahi sā if confronted by a snake for example . |
| 9 | This need not mean that he is no good at his job — simply that he is not the right person to help you . |
| 10 | At the beginning of his tale , Mr Hingston points out that negligence over personal finance does not mean that he is unfitted to be Institute Treasurer . |
| 11 | So does that mean that he is a good teacher of music , he 's just not a good disciplinarian ? |
| 12 | He has said he lost something like £15,000 in potential earnings as a freelance builder and an injury suffered in the tournament has meant that he is unable to work — so he loses out both ways . |
| 13 | It just means that he 's — a lot of his time is taken up doing stats and it 's if he 's doing that he 's not doing something else . |
| 14 | Since the uncle is the boy 's heir , this shows that the jurist must regard a transmissible interest in the estate as having vested in the boy before his death ; which means that he is taking dies cedens to have passed , although the boy has not lived until age sixteen ; and that in turn means that he is interpreting the trust as subject not to a condition but to a term ( dies ) . |
| 15 | Since the uncle is the boy 's heir , this shows that the jurist must regard a transmissible interest in the estate as having vested in the boy before his death ; which means that he is taking dies cedens to have passed , although the boy has not lived until age sixteen ; and that in turn means that he is interpreting the trust as subject not to a condition but to a term ( dies ) . |
| 16 | This means that he is always in control : he never takes a holiday from his responsibilities . |
| 17 | For the same reason , perhaps , although Leontes ' jealousy in The Winter 's Tale reaches painful extremes , the fact that he never speaks prose means that he is not really mad , just temporarily disturbed . |
| 18 | His own dismissal of deconstruction as a merely textual practice means that he is himself at a loss when faced with the complex conceptual dialectics of the same and the other . |
| 19 | This means that he is protected against any action of defamation provided he speaks in good faith and without malice ( Beach v. Freeson ( H.C. , 1972 ) ) , and provided there is a common interest between the parties . |
| 20 | I hope that that unclarity means that he is moving towards us . |
| 21 | As we have seen , he claims to have had glimpses only of absolute Truth and we have interpreted this to mean that he is often made aware of the need to live and act in accordance with certain ethical and religious principles and to travel in a certain spirit . |