Example sentences of "and [conj] mean " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing but the best for Lucy , and that meant a month of sober evenings honing every flip phrase so that it made a point . |
| 2 | And that meant a lot to me at the time because all the paintings I was doing were subjects from my childhood years . |
| 3 | The state telecoms monopolies wanted to retain their privileged positions , and that meant extending their privileges , since new technologies and services were springing up on every hand . |
| 4 | The Americans wanted the greatest possible acceleration of weapon production on behalf of the Atlantic Alliance in order to keep ahead of the Russians , but they insisted on two principles : first , that production and storage facilities should be located with due regard to strategic considerations , and that meant location in North America with minimum holdings in Europe ; and second , that there should be co-ordination of the American and British programmes to make best use of available expertise and resources , including exchange of scientists . |
| 5 | We then did n't have enough materials for the wall so we had to shorten its length , which in turn meant there was not enough room for media vehicles and not enough space for VIPs to manoeuvre their cars in , and that meant altering security arrangements . |
| 6 | But tonight 's objective was to please Richard and be photographed by every goddam paparazzo in London , and that meant colour , the brighter the better . |
| 7 | Now , as Government Circulars from the hand of Ellen Wilkinson and John Maud insisted , it had to be provided for everybody — and that meant in the new secondary modern schools . |
| 8 | It meant the US Tour and that meant an attractive career for me as well as him , I hoped . |
| 9 | The driver must be someone who did n't know the district well , or he would n't have gone along the Applewick lane ; and that meant it was very likely he would n't realise that his van would hit the arch of the bridge instead of going under it , just as her daddy 's had done once . |
| 10 | With Jo I got right back to basics , and that meant starting with my own birth . |
| 11 | Nearly always one at least was missing , and that meant that seven men we all knew had got the chop . |
| 12 | The very high bore tides rarely occured during the hours of darkness , but he knew this one was predicted to be a twenty seven footer , and that meant danger . |
| 13 | She would have to go and make sure that everything was all right — and that meant goodbye to walking home along the sands . |
| 14 | One thing she was quite certain of — she was in love with Edward and that meant she would have to continue to let him — or he would find someone else who would . |
| 15 | And that meant a name change … |
| 16 | ‘ Willy Thorne , for example took part in a ProAm game at Alsager and insisted that one of the three charities who were to receive donations just had to be the Rainbow Trust and that meant £1,400 cheque . |
| 17 | Penny 's book Romancing The Stars suggested that Prince Charles was finding it difficult to blend his spiritual inner values with his outer role , and that meant he was retreating further into himself and widening the gulf between himself and Diana . |
| 18 | It was Saturday , half over already , and that meant only three more entire days remained before Christmas Day , the coming Wednesday , when she had committed herself , she now feared rashly , to festivities with the Danbys . |
| 19 | JOHN Williams ( centre ) somehow gets in his header before the leaping Spurs defence — and that meant his third goal against the Londoners this season . |
| 20 | And that meant them moving over . |
| 21 | There was a demand for better films and that meant films that would convince middle-class audiences that the new entertainment could aspire to art and be an agency of spiritual betterment . |
| 22 | He 'd never known a time when Klein did n't need money for some gambit or other , and that meant he needed painters . |
| 23 | I thought of my interest as being in subjects rather than individual works ; showing subjects rather than the summation of an idea made my objective clearer and that meant presenting the complete thought process . |
| 24 | The plans would have to be altered accordingly and that meant first attending to some unfinished business at Lausanne station . |
| 25 | And that meant everything to him … |
| 26 | So they were both back and that meant that Jasper was too . |
| 27 | He was delighted to find the house still a blaze of light ; that meant the part was still in full swing , which meant Gerard would be busy … and that meant that he should be able to creep in through the kitchen door . |
| 28 | The Blessed Virgin was immaculate and that meant unspotted . |
| 29 | And that meant taking a trip down to the lower end of the Bayswater Road . |
| 30 | It was a number on the Beach Exchange , and that meant a comfortable address in the right part of town . |