Example sentences of "and mean " in BNC.
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| 1 | The result is a townscape of ‘ terrible despairing cries ’ which mean , and mean more than , that the drunks are leaving the pubs between two and three o'clock in the morning , the pubs that reek of alcohol and cucumber and fish . |
| 2 | No decision has been taken but he argues few countries include them , that they obscure the underlying trend and mean tightened monetary policy produces an illusory rise in monetary inflation . |
| 3 | Their works would be skeletal ; their insights would be meagre and mean . |
| 4 | You not only were arrogant , you were snobbish , and in lots of ways , very impolite and mean … |
| 5 | In all fairness it must of course also be said that people who are familiar with Christian orders of service find this same collection of words extremely comforting and helpful precisely because they are familiar and mean a great deal to them . |
| 6 | Other such terms , for example free , as in ‘ then we were free ’ , certainly had reference to the past , but carried direct contemporary reference : a man would say of another , ‘ he is a free man ’ , and mean that he took no orders from a superior ; and a man ( asked about his own occupation ) might say with some pride that he was a ‘ free Zuwayi ’ ( zuwayi hurr ) , and imply his condition was closer to the old days than that of most of those he saw around him . |
| 7 | Mr Bates hopes to finalise a deal that will reduce his payment from the asking price of £22.85 million to £13 million — and mean Fulham moving in at the end of this season . |
| 8 | Diana veers between a gentle , sweet , ‘ wonderful ’ creature and a competitive , jealous gold-digger : Prince Charles ricochets from a sensitive , cultured , thinking man to one who is abominably selfish , randy and mean . |
| 9 | Dahl , 1954 , 1955 , 1987 ) ; however , the glacial survival of amphi-atlantic species such as Potamogeton epihydrus or Najas exilis ( as suggested by Harrison , 1948b ) or bryophytes such as Myurium hochstetteri , Leptodontium recurvifolium , or Campylopus shawii seems unlikely in view of reconstructed July mean temperatures during the last glacial maximum on St Kilda of 4°C and mean sea-surface temperatures around Rockall of 0–2°C ( Sutherland et al. , 1984 ) . |
| 10 | This right was often exercised and mean that by 1983 many were in the hands of individuals with no interest in golf , but who had inherited bonds by assignment through parents or grandparents . |
| 11 | But a visit to Vanessa , ‘ humming & booming & flourishing over the hill ’ in a household of children , could make Virginia feel suddenly diminished , her life thin and pale by comparison , Monk 's House poky and mean . |
| 12 | I nodded a yeah-they-don't-know-shit nod and something small and mean inside me felt it had got even . |
| 13 | And twice I say it and mean it : ‘ Me too , Ricardo . |
| 14 | As the New Right has denounced and undermined a communitarian form of society , so ‘ The numbers of people for whom such communitarian visions are good and mean something at the level of their everyday experiences are declining , attenuating their moral force . ’ |
| 15 | It is recommended that samples be stored at mean maximum temperature and mean maximum humidity appropriate to the market concerned . |
| 16 | Since storage at mean maximum temperature and mean maximum humidity may give little acceleration over market conditions , these should be continued for the projected shelf-life of the product . |
| 17 | In view of the difficulty of satisfactorily exaggerating conditions in high humidity markets , it is always desirable to put samples on test at actual conditions of the market or markets in which the product is to be sold , i.e. , storage at the mean maximum temperature and mean maximum humidity . |
| 18 | Figure 9.8 Pessimistic perceptions of the economy over the past year : comparison of median and mean smoothing |
| 19 | The scandal would ruin him and mean the end of his political career if he should be named as corespondent in a divorce case . |
| 20 | Others might say they hated her and mean it . |
| 21 | Hard , wild , self-indulgent , restless , and mean . |
| 22 | When we first met , Ryan was lean and mean . |
| 23 | His voice was harsh and mean . |
| 24 | I can not say that the letter is in the drawer and mean that the cake is in the cupboard , or that the letter was or will be in the drawer . |
| 25 | This can be either broad , with the full expression of human feeling common only to the Labour movement , or it may be narrow , niggardly and mean with only the objective of shirking responsibility , and never carrying out in the spirit of those laws work which could be applied to make the conditions of the working people easier , and the lives of their children brighter and better . |
| 26 | Immediately pressing a few flowers from this bouquet will ensure that they are preserved while in top condition , and mean that the remaining flowers can be enjoyed in a colourful arrangement . |
| 27 | To touch a dead man or to come into contact with the blood of an injured person would make them unclean and mean that they could not carry out their duties . |
| 28 | Thieves would be unlikely to remove the communications chips because it would be time-consuming and mean disassembling much of the car . |
| 29 | Most people at the top taking their lead from the government , are callous and mean . |
| 30 | They are very strong and mean , and by far the best Mob of Orcs in the whole army . |