Example sentences of "of what it mean " in BNC.
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| 1 | Television had brought golf to the working class and for just a moment television gave us an idea of what it meant to them . |
| 2 | It also transpired that parts of England ( east and south-east ) were put on full invasion alert at the time , but it seems that ‘ Cromwell ’ had been ignored in some places where the junior officers who happened to be on duty had not been let into the secret of what it meant . |
| 3 | Carrying the banner of the nuclear industry , it was well aware of what it meant to be a target for the new generation of environmentalists . |
| 4 | In the early 1950s the anthropologist A. Irvin Hallowell reconsidered the whole issue in the light of what it meant to be a human person . |
| 5 | It recognized through its wording that the superpowers , the regional contestants and the local ones , had differing interpretations of what it meant . |
| 6 | Everyone had a vague idea of what it meant but none could precisely have defined it . |
| 7 | I just want to read three anecdotes which , and I mean I 've given you sort of odd statistics and the advantage of anecdotes is that they actually put flesh on the bones I think , and they really give you a sense of what it meant to be er a peasant in China in the nineteen thirties . |
| 8 | Much to the amusement of two American girls who stayed with us because they did n't know what this phrase was I mean they could n't have sort it out in the first place of what it meant . |
| 9 | Perhaps Celia had been right ; Alan was not aware of what it meant , and she did n't intend that he should know . |
| 10 | It does , however , have a missionary vision of what it means to be truly human , derived partly from rational reflection on human capacities and desires , but supremely from its conviction that we glimpse true humanity in the life , death and teaching of Jesus . |
| 11 | If you can understand Berlin then perhaps it is also possible to make some sense of what Europe may now become and of what it means to be a European . |
| 12 | Although the evangelicals in the DUP are clearly out of step with most Ulster Protestant voters , they still represent the ideological centre of unionism , of what it means to be a Protestant . |
| 13 | Earlier in the book we examined the essence of what it means to be a person . |
| 14 | These inward struggles for wholeness as a person lie at the heart of what it means to be a Christian . |
| 15 | In a world that substitutes power for relationships , lust for love and magic for the true love of God , we will always have to fight to express the truth of what it means to be truly human . |
| 16 | A broad interpretation of what it means would greatly expand the number of crimes for which access to legal advice could be delayed . |
| 17 | Notions of what it means to read are much more diverse , encompassing more than a judgement on the text , and always referring to an interplay between text and the discursive space in which judgements about it are formed . |
| 18 | A mind with a clear understanding of what it means by ‘ god ’ when making a call on that ‘ god ’ will have access to a physical response of immense scope , controlled only by the limitations put upon it by the processes of evolution . |
| 19 | It is a very damaging doubt and needs to be blocked firmly by a decisive reaffirmation of what it means for Christianity to be true . |
| 20 | Despite the risks , Jonathan flies for the sheer joy of exploring his potential , of extending the boundaries of what it means to be a seagull . |
| 21 | The multiplicity of utterance meanings does not mean that any linguistic expression can mean anything at all in complete disregard of what it means as a sentence . |
| 22 | That , I believe , is the real test of our fellowship and is right at the heart of what it means to be a responsible member of a Baptist church practising as we do the principle of congregational government . |
| 23 | Occasionally we hear of staff abuse and there is outrage , but more often than not we simply do not think of what it means to be old or shut away . |
| 24 | They have intimate experience of what it means to be rejected , forgotten , isolated . |
| 25 | If aggression and violence are part and parcel of what it means to be human , then why is it that there exist societies where aggressive or violent behaviour is conspicuous by its absence ? |
| 26 | The title of the Conference was ‘ Peace , Action , and the Concept of Self ’ , the overall focus being explications on indigenous ideas of what it means to be a human being , how the associated attributes are conceptualized , and patterns of behaviour . |
| 27 | War is popularly perceived as part and parcel of what it means to be human , and , with ever increasing deadly weapons , the devastating impact of war is consequently accepted as inevitable . |
| 28 | I now wish to look at some Chewong words that pertain to inner states and relate these to ideas of what it means to be human . |
| 29 | An example of what it means to be brave ( or not fearful ) was provided by myself . |
| 30 | While highlighting the issue of disappearances , entertainment and big names can soften the perception of what it means to be ‘ disappeared ’ . |