Example sentences of "[Wh det] it mean [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What it meant to move towards school records could be to increase the subjective , teacher-controlled element in selection or to diminish the relative effects of differences between teachers or schools — it was never an unambiguous change . |
| 2 | She would show him what it meant to rouse a sleeping volcano . |
| 3 | She did not even know what it meant to adapt oneself to another person 's requirements for the sake of self-interest . |
| 4 | However much encumbered by advisory councils , complaints commissions and the shifting apparatus of consult-ation and audience research , the broadcasters ' own judgement about programme standards and quality — what it meant to inform , educate and entertain — prevailed . |
| 5 | Not knowing what it meant to have a past , he did n't miss it . |
| 6 | Do you know what it means to duck ? |
| 7 | People do n't realise what it means to own a monkey . |
| 8 | We shall place this within a general discussion of what it means to represent ‘ a text ’ . |
| 9 | This expectation , from a rhetorical point of view , is pan of what it means to hold an attitude , because the attitude exists within the wider social context of explicit controversy . |
| 10 | How does this understanding of God 's transcendence clarify what it means to talk of the divine immanence or presence ? |
| 11 | I do not know what it means to talk about conservation while idling away one 's leisure time in the killing of pheasants , foxes , deer and hares . |
| 12 | He learns what it means to talk of Truth through its use in the religious context of Hindu tradition and culture . |
| 13 | Similarly , it is as a participant in the Hindu way of life that he understands what it means to talk of Religion ; he understands the meaning of the term Religion from its use in his own form of life . |
| 14 | To understand this , one has to think along certain lines , about what it means to talk of a sensation being in a certain part of one 's body . |
| 15 | Each one of them will know what it means to take up the challenge year after year of a yet higher fund raising target . ’ |
| 16 | Instead , I want to try to develop a further view of what it means to see criticism as a significant feature of higher education . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Young people with backpacks and habitual travellers may know what it means to go on a journey , but for most the romance of escape begins with deciding where to go on holiday and then getting there as quickly as possible . |
| 19 | A colleague said , ‘ Now I know what it means to move mountains . ’ |
| 20 | This is what it means to say that Dostoevsky brushes against Raskolnikov and Svidrigailov as he reaches back towards the underground man . |
| 21 | But they have not concluded that it is a useless and mistaken speculative enterprise to consider what it means to say that something ‘ exists ’ . |
| 22 | Philosophers of religion have considered what it means to say that something ‘ is ’ . |
| 23 | They have therefore wondered what it means to say that something ‘ exists ’ , when existence does not appear to attach any particular characteristic to it . |
| 24 | People often discuss what it means to say that something is beautiful . |
| 25 | But unless one is blind , or does not know the language , surely one would not be likely to ask what it means to say that something is white ? |
| 26 | In this section , we shall examine what it means to say that the study of nature was subordinate to theology in the period that separated the two Bacons , Roger ( ? 1214–94 ) and Francis ( 1561–1626 ) . |
| 27 | The problem is to define the meaning of conditionals , to say what it means to say that if kangaroos had no tails they would topple over , to say exactly what conditionals mean . |
| 28 | Oh I was in repudiation of my contract well I du n no what what it means to repude some things , you know I jumped to get a dictionary and found out , but I really do n't know what my contract was because I do n't think we ever had any . |
| 29 | Thank you Chairman I , I actually agreed with those not so much that erm I , I have problems with erm other matters , it is more extra to be examined and because it actually says that it has to be examined once , and will therefore be re-examined erm , erm I am sure if it should be examined they have to put exact what it means examine in and before and as you say er you will be the first to say . |
| 30 | I 'll show him what it means to walk out on his family . |