Example sentences of "[adv] mean is " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I say that you can expect evolution to jump from the insect to one of its immediate neighbours , but not to jump from the insect directly to the fox or the scorpion , what I exactly mean is the following . |
| 2 | When we talk of ‘ stress ’ what we usually mean is ‘ over-stress ’ . |
| 3 | For example , when we say ‘ genes are trying to increase their numbers in future gene pools ’ , what we really mean is ‘ those genes that behave in such a way as to increase their numbers in future gene pools tend to be the genes whose effects we see in the world ’ . |
| 4 | You can , of course , say that a certain bait catches more bream than any other , but what you really mean is that a certain bait is used more often than any other on the waters with which you are acquainted . |
| 5 | Well , when we say horrifying car crash what we really mean is that one of the two cars got a puncture and the other vehicle bashed into the back of them but you never know , it could have been worse . |
| 6 | When we have a hunch that somebody is telling lies , for instance , ‘ what we really mean is that their body language and their spoken words do not agree . ’ |
| 7 | We assert ‘ the facts are ’ , ‘ the case is ’ and ‘ the truth is ’ when what we really mean is ‘ I interpret the facts to mean ’ , ‘ my opinion is ’ or ‘ I think . ’ |
| 8 | Since no child has no things they do not especially like , what parents really mean is that they ( the parents ) can not think of anything . |
| 9 | As one of the parents in the interviews described later says , ‘ When they say , you 're the experts , parents are experts , what they really mean is — you get on with that little bit over there , and we 'll get on with the really important stuff over here . ’ |
| 10 | A decision which has never had any legal effect can not be deprived of legal effect , and so when we say that certiorari quashes a decision which the decision-maker had no jurisdiction to make , what we really mean is that the order formally declares that from the moment it was purportedly made ( ‘ ab initio ’ ) the decision had no effect in law . |
| 11 | What they really mean is that they can not find any acceptable community leadership to support . |
| 12 | What I really mean is , without Jim . |
| 13 | When we talk about the Online Enterprise what really mean is the business needs of organizations in the nineteen nineties . |
| 14 | Er what I actually mean is whenever you have an idiom , you can substitute in the position of a whole sentence or of a verb phrase , but you ca n't substitute it for a subject and a verb , leaving the object of the sentence intact . |
| 15 | What we actually mean is a sort of mini manifesto introduction to the Green Party booklet sixteen pages or so . |