Example sentences of "that mean [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , I 'm not into things that happen for effect or for taste ; I like doing things that mean something . |
| 2 | The first thing you 've go to do is you 've got to provide services that mean something to everyone at work . |
| 3 | The Labour party has learnt nothing about the deep-seated wish of the British people for local government structures that reflect what they feel about their local communities , and units of government that mean something to them and are not imposed on them . |
| 4 | Dagbladet yesterday brought a table from the spanish first division ( =premier ) with albacete listed even though they were not in the top five : ie they listed the top-five teams some ‘ … ’ and albacete : im quite sure that mean something though nothing more in the papers today . |
| 5 | Colchester was an engineering base , there 's no doubt about that , there was David Paxmans , you must all about , the great big diesel firm , they did some lovely er diesel engines for the high speed trains which , of course , obviously been superseded by electrics , they used to employ three thousand people and when I started in college we did n't enrol their apprentices on the college site , we went to Paxmans and we enroled one hundred apprentices every year on a five year course , that mean they had a five hundred apprentices in a pool , did n't they , just like that ! |
| 6 | Similarly : ( 10 ) I only offered her legal advice will , under one natural interpretation , refer to advice on legal matters ; and it will continue to do so even if in some rare case it is given under circumstances that mean it is offered illegally itself , for example if it makes use of secret information stolen from a government which prohibits unauthorized possession or transmission of secret government information ; on the other hand , as a phrase of English , it can perfectly well bear the other interpretation under which it means advice which is itself legal , in the sense that it is legally given , in which case it may concern any subject under the sun . |
| 7 | Substituting for X in the expression opposite , it will be seen that mean I , /Ap ratios range from 1.25 on shores of Grade 1 ( " Extremely Exposed " on Ballantine 's scale ) to 1.50 on " Extremely Sheltered " Grade 8s . |
| 8 | The arbitrator may decide that The Post Office is not legally liable but that there are special circumstances in your favour that mean you were not really at fault . |
| 9 | Yes , that meant we were earning less in real terms after taking inflation into account but at least we still had a job at the end of it . |
| 10 | He 'd worked for firearms makers Springfield and Samuel Colt before beginning his own company in 1890 , and knew that identical parts could be made to a standard that meant they were interchangeable . |
| 11 | They were once so poverty-stricken they were known through the valley of the Tees as people who ‘ christened calves , hoppled lops and knee-banded spiders ’ That meant they could afford so few cattle that each one had a name ( a tradition perpetuated by Hannah. ) , and lops ( lice ) and spiders had their legs tied together to prevent them running away |
| 12 | From Asmar 's reports , I knew that some of them were into arms trafficking as well as dope and that meant they had to have close ties with Syrian-supported terrorist groups like the PFLP — GC . |
| 13 | They were both speaking in the slightly lowered tone that meant they did not want to be overheard , and were only having the discussion at all because they believed Belinda to be safely out of earshot . |
| 14 | You know the sort of uncontrollable nature of , of most of it that , that meant they had to get on with it . |
| 15 | Still was n't enough goals though even if Poland had beaten Holland , England still would n't have qualified because they needed , because er the opposition got a goal , they need to be , they had to win by seven clear goals so that meant they had to win eight one , not seven one , you see . |
| 16 | The Italian dirty tricks department worked overtime as Galvano 's management tried to scream ‘ no contest ’ , claiming a head clash caused the badly cut left eye that meant their man could n't go on after the third round . |
| 17 | She listened for the siren that marked their departure , the roar of the engines that meant their journey had truly begun . |
| 18 | The heavy thudding steps that meant her mother was getting up . |
| 19 | Because our conscious memories are selective , because we remember stories that meant something to us , that spoke to us , your answer will reveal to you a great deal about the way you used stories when you were a child . |
| 20 | When , a long time ago now , Stephen had tried to call him Dad or Father and drop the babyish name , he had shouted that Stephen was all he had in the world and could n't he have a little bit of kindness and call him by the one name that meant something ? |
| 21 | Constance frequently reiterated that she would never buy anything that had belonged to somebody else , that meant something to them , that had been warm against their skin or over the fireplace : only brand-new articles , the stuff of commerce in transit between factory and store , the owners of which already had more money than was good for them and were themselves no better than they should be . |
| 22 | Back home , it was a sound that meant something . |
| 23 | — that meant something , |
| 24 | To the Tysons , that meant nothing extravagant — just an extra £135 a month to make life at home in South Ruislip , Middlesex easier . |
| 25 | It began with muffled voices that meant nothing . |
| 26 | Kevin and his brother were putting back the whiskeys and talking about things that meant nothing to her . |
| 27 | Others were obscure , yet-to-come images that meant nothing to her . |
| 28 | He pulled them both under the blanket , cradled her to him , crooned words that meant nothing in her ear , kissed new tears from her cheeks . |
| 29 | ‘ Who would have believed that Haagen-Dazs could build a market for a product retailing at just under £3 per tub with a name that meant nothing , with understated quirky packaging in a country where a major recession was started to bite ? |
| 30 | And that meant everything to him … |