Example sentences of "mean [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pulmonary artery pressure was 104/42/ 65 mm Hg ( systolic/diastolic/mean ) , the right ventricular pressure 103/14 mm Hg , and mean right atrial pressure 14 mm Hg . |
| 2 | Advances in keyhole surgery and laser treatment mean much speedier recovery . |
| 3 | ( mean daily caloric intake 2200 ( 230 ) kcal/day ) . |
| 4 | The second point is that the A C C are , are , I think , the second point is that there was a deputation to the Minister yesterday , so if , in a sense it 's a little late unless it was picked up by Mr yesterday , it may be a little late to do something for this year , er , I mean obviously next year is I think going to be the er , important issue , and the A C C has already circulated all Shire counties er , it 's picked up that this has happened to the majority of counties , although again the south east er , has escaped from that , and it 's asking for the sort of figures we 're debating this morning . |
| 5 | I suppose , also , I have — well , one person in particular whose timekeeping is n't great — I mean obviously this sort of job it 's not important to be there on the dot of nine , but I think sometimes she slides . |
| 6 | I do n't think we could be completely drug-free , I mean obviously medical conditions dictate that you have to take medi , medicines |
| 7 | Director of mental health Jonathan Mumford said concentrating services in one place would make it more effective and mean less travelling time for staff , patients and families . |
| 8 | But I mean basically that sort of contract you want to complete . |
| 9 | ‘ You mean only loose women are gorgeous ? ’ |
| 10 | yeah well I mean so sure saves umbrage of course you did n't you 'd be , er , I 'm sure much more er careful , but then you 're an experience er business man in the flash of youth . |
| 11 | SCOTLAND 'S MOUNTAINS MEAN SO MANY THINGS TO DIFFERENT PEOPLE . |
| 12 | personally I , I , I felt , I mean so many people have been uncommitted and the Garrick |
| 13 | Cash cuts blamed for intensive care unit bed shortage The head of a Middlesbrough hospital 's intensive care unit claims cash cuts mean desperately ill patients are being turned away . |
| 14 | I mean just small things like that |
| 15 | I mean just little ideas like this you know putting recipes and things |
| 16 | Does an open school mean totally free access to teachers , class rooms and corridors at all times ? |
| 17 | I mean always some book |
| 18 | But what it was , they were like it was like G A N do them er Man and Co And they had sort of like a job like Dave 's and a lot of them what they 've done is they 've bought in this area , I mean probably most areas they 've bought the repossessed they 've got about eight or nine houses they 're either renting them out or they 're leaving them empty . |
| 19 | The flexibility of the engine and the very nature in which the power is delivered mean far fewer gear changes are required , making this machine eminently suitable for town driving . |
| 20 | I mean about ten pound is the cheapest and perhaps even twelve . |
| 21 | You need an awful lot of persuading to get doctors to start to use a new medicine and a classic example was of the treatment of depression , where the pharmaceutical manufacturers started to produce tablets which were very effective in stopping depression , not just feeling a bit blue but actual serious clinical depression where the person 's sat in the corner and stared at the wall and did nothing — I mean really serious depression — doctors took a long time to realize that there was an effective treatment for that and to start to prescribe it , and in fact actually doctors in Britain are rather good in that we prescribe many more effective treatments for depression , we diagnose it more often , and this we believe in our office that this is one of the reasons why the suicide rate has gone down in Britain quite dramatically in the last few years , because depression , which is obviously one of the main causes of suicide , is being effectively treated . |
| 22 | And er people was of often off for day or two , I mean really nice people , they were n't they were n't bad people , they were really nice people but they it was nature you see . |
| 23 | Well , well I think I would , I would rath it I mean i it they 've got the responsibility to whistle blow now , you know , professional they 've got , er you know , they 're they these are professionals and they should , they should whistle blow and I mean Maxwell is a perfect example of how nobody , nobody blew the whistle and if you read through the writs , those lots of these people knew what were what was happening an and the whistle should have been blown and I see no reason why the why the pension regulator is going to get any different , different response and also I mean really these people are being in many cases given by th given information by their clients , you know , and I think it 's a very difficult situation to turn round to , to somebody like Mr Maxwell and say well look I 'm terribly sorry Mr Maxwell , we 're going to report you to the pensions regulator , you know and I think that , that er you will just find that that I just do n't feel that the pension regulator in , in that respect , I mean I , I think that I might like to if Peter suggested a pension fraud squad that , that had a open telephone line and the same sort of er powers as the Serious Fraud Office you know , so that if er anybody in a pension fund could , could ring a number and er and people absolutely descended th that , I mean they ge they say somewhere in the report that the pension regulator is going to have er powers and monies to do spot checks . |
| 24 | There were old roses climbing up these walls and other old roses in borders — I mean really old ones , not nineteen twenties ' and thirties ' ones which catalogues count as old . |
| 25 | Although this distinction is not widely known , I think it is a most helpful one because when words mean radically different things it is useful to have some way of distinguishing them outwardly . |
| 26 | Mind you I mean even four months , cos you 'd be getting more money . |
| 27 | I mean increasingly small authorities are effectively opting out of the national negotiat now we ca n't ignore th |
| 28 | I remember the shock of realising that the two groups were not making any contact — the word DRAMA meant entirely different things to each side . |
| 29 | To Manville it meant only one thing . |
| 30 | As she watched her boisterous daughter race down a Pittsburgh street yesterday , the giggles and grins meant only one thing : ‘ We 're all going home . ’ |