Example sentences of "mean [be] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I do mean is that although most women do hope for a happy and loving relationship with their husbands , the attainment of this is not the purpose of marriage . |
| 2 | What it does mean is that he had made it plain that he intended a legal relationship to exist between two persons ( soon to become trustee and beneficiary ) . |
| 3 | What it would mean is that we would consider it immoral to treat animals as if they had no intrinsic value , as if they were of instrumental value only , merely means to human ends . |
| 4 | Gandhi claims that it can not be used in an unjust cause but what he might mean is that it should not be used in an unjust cause . |
| 5 | What it does mean is that , if the manager adopts a very warm socio-emotional managerial style , then an informal or unofficial task-leader role may emerge in the work group . |
| 6 | What he did not mean is that women lack rationality ; they can and do deliberate . |
| 7 | What it does mean is that each employer will identify a specific number of vacancies which will be reserved for Compact graduates before being offered more widely . |
| 8 | The most this can mean is that the people who voted for the party did so knowing that it was planning to do certain things , and that therefore these voters can be assumed to have consented to those plans . |
| 9 | This is not to say that man can mine coal where it does not occur geologically , or that some settlements do not originate because of the existence of some material which the inhabitants extract ; what it does mean is that people themselves determine what is exploited and how they deal with the extraction . |
| 10 | What er more staff would mean is that more visits can be made to more HMO 's to put more of the problems right ; it 's , it 's just about that simple . |
| 11 | What it did mean was that the presence of the killer pack effectively cut off that particular escape route if it were needed . |