Example sentences of "[pron] it mean [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But what it meant is it got read , written into the constitution , it meant that everyone can buy a gun . |
| 2 | Even to explain exactly what it meant was difficult . |
| 3 | What it meant was that matter could curve a region in on itself so much that it would effectively cut itself off from the rest of the universe . |
| 4 | In the context of German Hellenism as a whole , what it meant was an ever-widening gulf between classics as a study and the creative art and life of the time . |
| 5 | a paragraph at the end of one of the chapters and , I ca n't remember the exact words but in , what it meant was that for the parents who do restrain the children from what they watch |
| 6 | Acer Inc claims to have the ‘ world 's first single Pentium chip multiprocessor upgrade technology , ’ the engine for the fastest entry-level server ever developed : details of what it means are scarce . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | A simple way to appreciate what it means is to visualise the Spectra line being passed down a hollow tube ( the ‘ sleeve ’ ) until it appears at the other end . |
| 10 | What it means is : you 've got it all wrong . |
| 11 | Use a little star to indicate which is the asymmetric centre which kiral centre and all it means is that if you were to dra , if you had a a kiral molecule in other words , it had four different groups attached to it what it means is that it and it 's mirror image , this is the way you actually draw it and answer the questions you draw you draw it as if there was a mirror image . |
| 12 | So what it means is if you buy privately instead of having three statutory rights you 've only got one . |
| 13 | So what it means is , you 've got to have wits about you when you go shopping have n't you ? |
| 14 | What it means is what is happening today in the hearts of families and of the peoples ’ ( Vallejo : 1970 , p. 66 ) . |
| 15 | What it means is that I have to be with him , except when I 'm working , since he ca n't always take time to be with me . ’ |
| 16 | It 's just that what it means is , our model has broken down . |
| 17 | What it means is higher bills for local taxpayers . |
| 18 | Well , in terms of survival of the fittest what it means is that natural selection does n't select for fitness because if it does , what is it doing ? |
| 19 | What it means is that we reduce our service , and we take , we can , we can , we can expect the independent sector to fill that gap for us . |
| 20 | Empowering local communities , that 's what really frightens the Tories , because what it means is they 'll never be able to come back with those repressive and regressive policies that they brought in two years ago . |
| 21 | But if what it means is to combine a sense of community , a sense of society , a sense of inter-dependent provision and collaboration in doing it and in providing true welfare con , consumerism , the government have chosen the word partnership . |
| 22 | And then he got on to explain what the items were , seventy five percent of the items went next day , and ninety thousand went , I 'm sorry , and er , and twenty five percent went two day , three day , and if you divide one into the other , what it means is that two point one consignments two me , sorry , two point one items per consignment went Express , and six items per consignment , general . |
| 23 | What it means is that if you know that somebody 's or if you know somebody 's sex then you 've got a better than chance bet at guessing whether they smoke or not . |
| 24 | What it means is that we 're just adding up all the products for all the paired scores , right ? |
| 25 | If you get a correlation of about point seven , it means that you 're only accounting for forty nine percent , less than half , of the variants in the other var the other sets of scores Think about it , if it 's a positive , if you 've got a correlation coefficient of one , what it means is that you account for a hundred perc or or sorry , if you 're gon na make convert it to a percentage , you times it by a hundred , it 's the proportion there . |
| 26 | What it means is is things like someone 's got a |
| 27 | What it means is , you 're planning your time so that you can work your work time , this will fit in round it , that 's all we 're doing . |
| 28 | but what it means is , what 's the difference ? |
| 29 | What we 've , so what it means is we have to make it clear to those people who are authorised to sign off invoices that their signature not only authorises accounts to pay it but also signifies that the delivery has been checked and is erm , is adequate . |