Example sentences of "mean at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't know what she meant at first . |
| 2 | Indeed it is difficult to imagine such a state of affairs , but in fact Marx , especially in Formen makes it quite clear that this is not what he meant at all ; it is only under the influence of Morgan in The Origin that Engels might possible by construed to have implied something so unlikely . |
| 3 | This is n't what I meant at all ! |
| 4 | ‘ That was n't what I meant at all . ’ |
| 5 | By imperial unification they meant at this time a federal union of Britain and the white dominions , a scheme differing little in its essentials from other schemes of imperial union which had occupied the minds of the British political classes from time to time during the latter part of the nineteenth century . |
| 6 | Did she mean at four in the morning , or at a time of extremity ? |
| 7 | I Have n't needed try , Brenda , I ca n't I mean at one time I 'd have devoured that . |
| 8 | That means at two fifteen . |
| 9 | I do n't suppose you now what that means at all do you ? |
| 10 | The new channel was dredged to about 10.3 metres below high water ordinary spring tide which means at low water of the same tide approximately 5.5 metres of water was available . |
| 11 | That means at some stage we may have to see Mrs Yeo . |
| 12 | There is no easy solution to this one , other than doing the first ones at a safe altitude , which means at some speed since it is difficult to fly slowly at any height or distance . |
| 13 | But that means at some point they may actually go below it . |
| 14 | Commonly it means at any instant having several partially-executed programs , among which the computer resources have to be shared in such a way that they interact ( if at all ) only in authorized ways . |
| 15 | For small farmers and commoners , drainage generally meant at best higher rents , at worst dispossession . |
| 16 | ‘ That is n't what I mean at all . |
| 17 | That 's not what I mean at all . |
| 18 | I mean at that time say perhaps go in the pub the or the or the , I mean there used to be so many pubs round the er , the dock area then , I mean you take the , and erm then there used to be the erm there was all them pubs round the dock then , noth one or two more but I ca n't re oh the was another one . |
| 19 | I mean we 've , I mean at that point you 've got that was the point where you 've got the massive United States aid coming in erm you , you 've got erm United States equipping China with all enormous fire power , sending tanks in etcetera , I mean this was the beginning of , of the realization of the United States that , that the communists were a threat and they did n't like it and they , they were putting massive ai aid erm and , and that there was all that United States war machine erm |
| 20 | I mean at that point I would either do that , you know er change it or that would have been it |
| 21 | So when someone walks up with the intention of breaking in a light comes on , I mean at one time , it 's not the same now , but at one time when these lights with the detectors first came out , nobody actually knew whether they were switched on or not . |
| 22 | structures , their possibilities I mean at one stage they would have been at a certain level had n't got a landlord their income but that 's within one particular moral economy , now the idea here is to break that down , you know , just get rid of the circle altogether . |
| 23 | Not quite cos I mean at one time , when he was Christopher 's age god he was never free from cold was he ? |
| 24 | I mean even us we we 're going in and out intensive care having a fag , having a cup of coffee , walking in , we 're full of germs I mean at one time you used to have to have gloves you know , did n't you ? |
| 25 | I mean at one stage we go back a hundred years — back to Dalton he thought of his atoms as being fundamental entities that could never be broken up , whereas now we know that an atom is a very complicated structure and we can measure things about atoms , we can measure the distribution , we can where the electrons and so on are . |
| 26 | I mean at one time it was the Times Literary Supplement or something with an Oxford box around it . |
| 27 | I mean at first I did n't know what you mean , but I do now . |
| 28 | I mean at six thirty . |
| 29 | Well this is about , I mean at this point it 's about one o'clock in the morning . |
| 30 | Well we were n't anyway there was very few pe , I mean at this time of the year I suppose but there was one place and it said Sunday lunch , there was a sort of black board outside , Sunday lunch erm four pound was it four fifty it was four fifty was n't it ? |