Example sentences of "[conj] what it mean " in BNC.
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| 1 | The catapult was avenged , the buck — or what it meant , its spirit maybe — soiled and degraded , taught a hard lesson , and I felt good . |
| 2 | For instance , they do n't understand , as she quotes in her book , what somebody is doing when they 're reading a newspaper , or what it means when the postman looks at a envelope . |
| 3 | For instance , they do n't understand , as she quotes in her book , what somebody is doing when they 're reading a newspaper , or what it means when the postman looks at a envelope . |
| 4 | White ceiling , white curtains shifting in a breeze , a huge bed neither would admit they had seen and what it meant . |
| 5 | Lee sat with her hand gripped tightly around the curved handle of a pint mug of beer and tried to work out who could have decorated the rostrum with this masochistic phrase and when and why and what it meant to the writer and whether the evening 's entertainment was aware of the invitation signalling beneath her feet . |
| 6 | Time and time again we went over the information we had and what it meant , but made no progress . |
| 7 | I turned to an investigation of my own family and my class background , and what it meant to be a woman … = This was the starting point of a project on ‘ my history ’ which I began by tentatively examining photographs of myself and ended by taking control over how I wanted to be photographed . |
| 8 | It is to this , and what it means , that I now turn . |
| 9 | And what it means to have borne it , |
| 10 | Obscenity ‘ represents a much more fundamental assault on men and women and what it means to be human … [ it distorts ] human personality by depicting it as deprived of those characteristics which are essential to humanity [ since ] common to all obscene productions is the degradation of persons and of relations between persons ’ . |
| 11 | And although this particular episode in the end solved no major scientific problem , it serves a crucial role in bringing to light the many aspects of what science is all about and what it means to do good science . |
| 12 | And bobbying and what it means , if you have eye on writing this sort of book , is what you will first have to absorb to the very marrow of your bones . |
| 13 | Here 's his prescription and what it means . |
| 14 | We would urge you to think about the consequences of what it proposes and what it means for you . |
| 15 | Local government is on the verge of collapse , but who gives a damn on the Conservative Benches about that and what it means for local government services ? |
| 16 | Erm , you know , you can find this , to actually need to work on where you 're at in the cycle and why you 're there , and what it means , to what you 're trying to do . |
| 17 | I 'm speaking fast in the hope you might not write it down erm and how to interpret a correlation coefficient and what it means . |
| 18 | It 's now about what 's in here , ’ said Morgan , pointing to his heart , ‘ and what it means to them . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ If this film had already been made there would n't be so much confusion about what the Maastricht Treaty is and what it means to Britain , ’ said one of the film 's producers , as Mr Brandreth rehearsed his lines in front of the European Parliament in Brussels . |
| 20 | Everyone has a different view of friendship and what it means to them . |
| 21 | What animals do , like and what it means . |
| 22 | It does , it might not seem it at this moment in time , but eventually you will understand everything that 's in there , and what it means to you , yes ? |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | But what it meant to both of them was that all the money was frozen because there was a dispute over whose money was what and how much money had been spent — that was a problem for David and for Tony . |
| 25 | After a curious military episode — he ran away from Cambridge to join the 15th Dragoons — he arrived in Bristol in 1795 full of plans to establish a new system of society , called Pantisocracy ; this word is explained on p. 80 , but what it meant in practice was the rather grandiose idea of founding a new American colony . |
| 26 | But what it meant is it got read , written into the constitution , it meant that everyone can buy a gun . |
| 27 | We are told that what matters is not whether a certain even happened , but what it means . |
| 28 | Ah but what it means , I 've got to walk around and look at it this and look at it that ! |
| 29 | but what it means is , what 's the difference ? |
| 30 | The fifty percent share holding has worked well , because what it means no one person can impose their will , no one has control , you have to resolve problems by agreement , resolve disagreements without coming to blows . |