Example sentences of "the [noun pl] mean [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The words meant nothing to Franco but the situation was all too familiar . |
| 2 | The words meant nothing , or should have meant nothing . |
| 3 | For an aeon of time the words meant nothing . |
| 4 | Adopted as their National Anthem , and the words mean something like , Let Him in Whose Veins Flows the Blood of the Netherlands Remains Free from a Foreigners Strain . |
| 5 | ‘ Do the words mean anything to anyone ? ’ |
| 6 | It was not that what he said was startlingly new , for it was based on a long tradition , but his particular talent and novelty was that he managed to combine biblical exegesis with growing papal ideology , to induce the texts to mean something of relevance to his leadership of society . |
| 7 | The names meant nothing to her , as her own family austerity eschewed , in characteristic northern professional manner , any interest in the visual arts , but she picked up what they were meant to mean . |
| 8 | Moltke , Bülow , Foch , Haig , French — the names meant nothing . |
| 9 | ‘ The names mean nothing to me . |
| 10 | ‘ But the names mean nothing to me because I only take note of the positions people play in . |
| 11 | ‘ But the names mean nothing to me because I only take note of the positions people play in . |
| 12 | I 'm only half joking of course when I say that by comparison the rip-offs and the scams and the scandals mean nothing . |
| 13 | ‘ The elections mean nothing ’ said a local chemist . |