Example sentences of "it mean [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he first reached the blissful shore of the redhead 's body , a peculiar idea occurred to him : he now knew at last what it meant to be absolutely modern ; it meant to lie on the shore of the redhead 's body . |
| 2 | But the lessons he learned from those formative years were to stand him in good stead later on when he was to understand what it meant to be a director from first-hand experience . |
| 3 | The heated debates in Western Europe around the year 400 on the meaning of perfection had their roots in the uncertainty about what it meant to be a genuine Christian in a society of fashionable Christianity . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Perhaps when we stopped asking what it meant to be fighting a war in Northern Ireland . |
| 8 | I turned to an investigation of my own family and my class background , and what it meant to be a woman … = This was the starting point of a project on ‘ my history ’ which I began by tentatively examining photographs of myself and ended by taking control over how I wanted to be photographed . |
| 9 | He understood what it meant to be sixteen . |
| 10 | What does it mean to be ‘ English ’ when so many people are disenfranchised in this country ? |
| 11 | We ask the question : what does it mean to be a Christian in this or that kind of society ? |
| 12 | What does it mean to be a priestess ? |
| 13 | CEPROR offered general courses on health , nutrition , community organization and , for women , included a special course entitled : " What does it mean to be a woman ? " |
| 14 | At the root of all this activity will be the search for an answer to the question : what does it mean to be a man ? |
| 15 | What does it mean to be conscious of our spiritual need ? |
| 16 | First of all , in the Kuwaiti 's own view , does it mean to be Kuwaiti ? |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Although she says that it was not necessarily an easy step to take , her community was behind her , and the reactions she has had from friends and teachers have convinced her that the step she took was an important one , challenging stereotypes in the West about what it means to be a Muslim girl , and bringing her a great sense of identity and of no longer being at odds with herself . |
| 21 | Fat is a Feminist Issue by Susie Orbach ( Hamlyn , 1978 ) was revolutionary when it first came out , with its detailed look at what it means to be fat and thin in our society , and to each of us individually . |
| 22 | According to the Men 's Movement , second only to the father is the older male who will help teach a young man what it means to be a man and help remove him from his father 's influence . |
| 23 | In these we shall attempt to say what it means to be social , for in that attempt lies a further definition of ‘ mind ’ . |
| 24 | It is impossible to understand the activities of the human person without considering what it means to be social . |
| 25 | Earlier in the book we examined the essence of what it means to be a person . |
| 26 | These inward struggles for wholeness as a person lie at the heart of what it means to be a Christian . |
| 27 | As we give up concentrating on our selves , our lives begin to reflect more clearly what it means to be human , as God intended us to be . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Instead he is as incomprehensible as the blurred tattoos which decorate his skinny arms , as jumbled as his own words on What it Means to Be a Skin . |
| 30 | What it means to be a reader varies according to how the text is circulated , what kinds of attention are paid to it , in what social setting . |