Example sentences of "[conj] it mean " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wheat was favoured , not merely because of its immediate importance as a basic food , but because it demanded least capital and least care , even where it meant wretched cultivations : only one-tenth of the cereal secano was farmed in regular rotations of wheat and legumes ; a quarter was cultivated only once every six or ten years . |
| 2 | It has been pointed out that " unreasonableness " has been used in two ways in this area : ( a ) in an " umbrella " sense where it has been used as a synonym for abuse of power covering the various aspects of abuse of power already mentioned ; ( b ) in a substantive sense where it means manifest unreasonableness , a decision or exercise of power that is so unreasonable that no reasonable man would agree with it . |
| 3 | I 'm told that the work also occurs in the local exter dialect of the planet Milifinil-il , where it means ’ there is a smear of faeces below your fourth ventricle ’ . |
| 4 | Intuitively , Karen decided to go where Gidget appeared to be pointing , although it meant crossing very difficult country . |
| 5 | Although it meant a detour he drove them through the Bois du Boulogne . |
| 6 | Actually I was so anxious to have him that I would have said anything — but I did put my marriage first , I made that choice , and although it meant I had many , many years of frustration as an actress , I 'm not sorry I made that choice . |
| 7 | Oh aye aye er there was always that in the back of their mind that the the more rivets they put in per day , although it meant more money at the end of the week possibly , er it also meant that the the boat was therefore progressing or the ship was progressing that quick , that they were getting nearer the gate as the the saying went . |
| 8 | Fortunately , that family was able to put in extra money — although it meant some sacrifices , such as doing without holidays and so on — but I contend that if those two girls had come from a less fortunate background , they simply would not have been able to continue their courses in current circumstances . |
| 9 | When a chance came up to do them early we took it , although it meant we only had nine working days to fit in with Magnox Shutdown . |
| 10 | We moved in with them , although it meant I had a long journey to the hospital every day and I had to sleep there when I was on call , and we stayed with them until he was nine . |
| 11 | As one man expressed it : ‘ When all 's said and done we have to get a product out and the management are interested in how cheap it can be done and although it means sacrificing the worker it means one has a cheap product . ’ |
| 12 | But unable to find the right person , Nikki has now decided to take the children with her , although it means uprooting them from home and friends . |
| 13 | That it meant nothing , less than nothing , to Mrs Hatton he was sure at once . |
| 14 | All about running for trains they could n't catch or being sat on by scaly monsters , and they got hold of books that told you that it meant Sex . |
| 15 | Philip Urbach was encouraged by a German-sounding word ( ‘ Maybe English was n't so difficult after all ’ ) , without realising that it meant war over Poland . |
| 16 | He did not know where , and did not particularly care , except that it meant that the Establishment was on Amber Black , and every car had to have the magic mirror wand shoved underneath the chassis . |
| 17 | He had simply been angry and believed that it meant he had been right all the time and that his sister really was in Hepzibah 's Power . |
| 18 | And he had to spend a good part of the campaign explaining that it meant caution and not complacency . |
| 19 | Young Victor , a Romantic from birth , was excited when the family was given free seats for the theatre for every night of its stay , less excited when he found out that the programme never changed , so that it meant sitting through the same melodrama every night for a month . |
| 20 | So construed , a specific issue order means what the cognoscenti always thought that it meant but , since one member of the other group , the ‘ incognoscenti , ’ perhaps was a bit puzzled by it in the first place , I thought it was worthwhile to clarify the matter on this occasion . |
| 21 | But it is a lawyers ' word , and those not used to legal language might naturally think that it meant changing something or exchanging property for other property . |
| 22 | In half an hour it would be time to take her loaves out of the oven : the only drawback to her new business was that it meant getting up early every single morning of the year . |
| 23 | She treasured it , feeling that Paris , and all that it meant , was perhaps not quite over … |
| 24 | She also knew that it meant that we could have a car when otherwise we could n't . |
| 25 | He 'd hoped that it meant no more than that she was growing up and had become aware of herself as a young woman ; that as a consequence it was not quite the done thing for her to rush across a room and hug him like a kid sister , or trip him up in the haybarn and fling herself on top of him like a puppy spoiling for a game . |
| 26 | When words ran as thin on him as this , he sometimes managed to suppose that it meant he was unconsciously saving them to write with . |
| 27 | To my great surprise and that of everyone else , I found that it meant that black holes are not completely black . |
| 28 | Far more significant and revelatory was the arrival of the wireless , in the sense that it meant for the first time the voice of the outside world and all that it encompassed — good and bad — was heard throughout this enclosed community . |
| 29 | He 'd thought that it was a nickname , that it meant nothing special , and they 'd let him go on thinking that way until he 'd found out different . |
| 30 | Zelah said that it meant , ‘ Holy ! |