Example sentences of "mean [is] " in BNC.
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| 31 | When conduct on the part of a government or some other public body is dubbed ‘ unconstitutional ’ , what is often meant is not necessarily that the law has been broken , but rather that the action is out of keeping with the style or , more broadly , the ‘ way of life ’ of a country … |
| 32 | When , in Britain , it is suggested that the policies of the Conservative Government towards local authorities since 1979 raise constitutional questions , what is meant is not that these policies are in any sense illegal , but rather … that they breach hitherto accepted understandings , albeit tacit , as to how relationships between central government and local authorities should be ordered . |
| 33 | What is really meant is that the individuals , the men , women and children , the people , they were in a mess . |
| 34 | Quite what that meant is unclear and perhaps was unclear then ( the terms of the 817 Ordinatio would have needed updating anyway since Pippin I had died ) ; but the one thing that was perfectly clear was that Lothar was abrogating the 839 division-plan. |
| 35 | But acting and all that it means is very much a doing thing , so the emphasis is always on practical work . |
| 36 | What this means is that Christian Maronite domination of the Lebanese body politic appears to be effectively at an end . |
| 37 | Equally , the key word in Robyn 's deconstruction of what Silk Cut really means is one which could not be spoken on television . |
| 38 | ‘ What that means is that NHS hospitals will be resourced according to the number of patients they treat . |
| 39 | What it really means is that the new trams are a hybrid between street car and lightweight suburban train . |
| 40 | What this really means is a fixed exchange rate system without capital controls . |
| 41 | What this means is that good old fashioned self-reliance could become a new health vogue of the Nineties . |
| 42 | Efficiency sounds like a strong claim , but actually it is pretty weak : all it means is that current information is available to everyone , either because they know about it or because enough people do , so that it is fully represented in the price . |
| 43 | What this means is that you 're the centre of attention and you 're waited on hand and ( of course ) foot . |
| 44 | ‘ What Clarissa means is that we have n't — mercifully — heard you for ages . ’ |
| 45 | ‘ The lamb ’ which Abraham means is Isaac . |
| 46 | What it means is that the time of release from prison is determined by the Home Secretary , on the advice of the Parole Board and the Lord Chief Justice , rather than by the judge at the trial . |
| 47 | To be frank , when Pöhl says that a single monetary policy will be unable to take into account the needs of individual regions and countries , what he really means is that the policy will be unable to take these into account if they conflict with Germany 's needs . |
| 48 | Although the constitution of the Confederation contains detailed regulations on the powers of the federal government and on the content of federal policy , all this means is that whenever a centralising measure is proposed , they amend the constitution . |
| 49 | What this means is that only a relatively small proportion of the population is earning and has the burden of supporting a large number of old and young . |
| 50 | What the advertisement really means is that anyone with an unwanted child can get rid of it , permanently , for fifteen pounds . ’ |
| 51 | What this means is that the faster we go , the more the apparent wind direction swings forwards . |
| 52 | What this means is that the opportunity to make worthwhile teaching points , about the subject matter on display , will be missed . |
| 53 | What this means is that ships can now have some protection against guided bombs released from a great height . |
| 54 | But what it really means is — Remember Send Vedding Present . ’ |
| 55 | ‘ What he means is , have a looksee but hands off . ’ |
| 56 | But today when someone says ‘ I believe so ’ , what he means is ‘ Yes with-doubts ’ . |
| 57 | When he says ‘ I doubt it ’ , what he means is ‘ No-with-doubts ’ . |
| 58 | What this means is that the output stage consists of two halves . |
| 59 | Presumably what he means is that at that point they will have lost their representative character and become embodiments of the divine . |
| 60 | What it means is that as life ‘ is not a single straight line ’ he does what he thinks must be done and what it is morally possible for him to do in situations of moral dilemma . |