Example sentences of "meant be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Jerusalem , or Early Church model , began to predominate , and this meant being with people rather than apart from them . |
| 2 | If it meant being away from the family for more than a week it was out . |
| 3 | She had the sense to realize there could not be two Queen Bees within one organization , even in such a large country , and anyway it meant being separated from her lover Mangon . |
| 4 | Grappling with nature 's secret meant being prepared to wrestle with ‘ her ’ . |
| 5 | AN AMERICAN researcher compiled a list of 2,241 words in English all of which meant being drunk . |
| 6 | Being a ‘ great power ’ meant being able to conduct a big war . |
| 7 | Whatever the result turned out to be , I would need sustenance , ( the Eccles cakes being something of a long shot ) , and that meant being prepared to risk leaving the Shell for a lightning raid into Pigeon Alley . |
| 8 | She did n't want to be safe , not if it meant being away from Felipe . |
| 9 | In the past , it often meant being ignored , even regarded as less intelligent . |
| 10 | I said no , I , I would hate to offend him because it 's all so well meant being a mother in law you have to watch it . |
| 11 | The clue to what he meant is the last sentence from Lewis : ‘ The lines and masses of a statue are its soul ’ . |
| 12 | Presumably , when her husband told her that he and his boss practised harmless sex , what he meant is that they do n't practise full gay sex . |
| 13 | But what it meant is it got read , written into the constitution , it meant that everyone can buy a gun . |
| 14 | Re-route , same thing as what you meant is n't it ? |
| 15 | Yes yes but what I meant is it does n't stop us being |
| 16 | ‘ All the same , ’ she said , ‘ all I meant was for her to break a leg . ’ |
| 17 | What this difference meant was that , according to the earlier works , the same complex relation between ideas , institutions , relations of productions , and technology applied to all societies , while , according to The Origin , a different theory applied to primitive societies . |
| 18 | What I meant was he 'd got just about the finest set of false teeth I 've ever seen . |
| 19 | She used big general terms about the Falklands , but all she really meant was : Argies are n't going to mess white Britons about . |
| 20 | What he meant was that his reluctant compatriots were so inward-looking that they could not perceive his genius . |
| 21 | What he really meant was ‘ I 've looked you up in Who 's Who and you 're not there . |
| 22 | But what he meant was , let the music flow naturally . |
| 23 | What he really meant was that it was not in his interest or that of the intelligence services involved . |
| 24 | ‘ What I meant was do you wish to pull in somewhere till this has eased a bit ? ’ |
| 25 | He was aware that what exactly the words meant was in a curious way less urgently important than the necessity of uttering them . |
| 26 | What she really meant was that the child 's affections were being alienated ; this was not wholly a fair charge . |
| 27 | What he meant was that there are numerous examples of repeating patterns , and embryos seem to like breaking up into repeated units . |
| 28 | ‘ What I meant was , , said the oldest son , ‘ is that we are free at last . |
| 29 | Reading between the lines , what they meant was that they were not going to train people who might keel over and die before the CAB had had its money 's worth . |
| 30 | The ‘ price ’ Walker meant was the cost of providing the right treatment . |