Example sentences of "meant a great " in BNC.

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1 This meant further discontent on the part of the workers and peasants , which would have meant a greater use of coercion by the state .
2 It has also meant a greater love for one another as we can share our faith and come face to face with who we are .
3 I also sense that the Shostakovich Tenth Symphony has meant a great deal to you .
4 Although there have been many marvellous performances that have meant a great deal to me , the most important to me , without doubt , was the only time I heard my first teacher sing .
5 SEM has meant a great leap forward , allowing Harris to look for more ‘ critical diagnostic characteristics ’ on the grains .
6 But Colin remained , in Emerson 's own account , very twitchy : winning meant a great deal to him , he was the arch-competitor and in a way he also wanted to take revenge on a track which had both hurt and humiliated him .
7 ‘ Her royal example has meant a great deal . ’
8 The move of Kenneth MacAlpin 's capital to Scone must have meant a great deal more physical comfort for kings and their retainers after the rocks and raw rain of Argyll , but the heads wearing the crown were offered little chance of lying easy .
9 These improvements follow the £75 million investment in the Chiltern line , which has gone into new trains , new stations , new facilities , all of which has meant a great improvement for all the commuters on that line ; those on the Thames line will benefit similarly .
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