Example sentences of "what i [verb] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you know what I mean by a relatively free press , Mr Wagner ? … |
| 2 | Before going on to analyse the kinds of blocking technique one might nevertheless use , I want to briefly explain what I mean by the terms ‘ open ’ and ‘ closed ’ sides when referring to a stance . |
| 3 | What I mean by tradition involves all those habitual actions , habits and customs , from the most significant religious rite to our conventional way of greeting a stranger , which represent the blood kinship of ‘ the same people living in the same place ’ . |
| 4 | That 's what I mean by attention to detail . |
| 5 | I shall from time to time use some of their material for further analysis and in order to make clear what I mean by structure . |
| 6 | This is what I mean by protection — we did not run away from the terrible topic : the use of projection allowed us to face cancer . |
| 7 | But let me make it immediately clear what I mean by this ; what I mean to say is that Miss Kenton 's letter set off a certain chain of ideas to do with professional matters here at Darlington Hall , and I would underline that it was a preoccupation with these very same professional matters that led me to consider anew my employer 's kindly meant suggestion . |
| 8 | What I mean by setting goals is asking yourself ‘ What sort of person do I want to be ? ’ |
| 9 | This is what I mean by saying that reforms within the system of utilisation will not change the system in any fundamental way . |
| 10 | What I mean by that is that if there are eight or ten things running across the spectrum from left to right , they 're all at specific points , and that way you can do a more sophisticated job of layering , while still retaining a certain delicacy . ’ |
| 11 | I do n't know what I mean by that . |
| 12 | Lines like 41–2 , ‘ turned the thistles of a curse/To types beneficent ’ , are quite remarkable and are an example of what I mean by ‘ experimental ’ . |
| 13 | I 'll tell you what I mean by drugs . |
| 14 | This phrase may appear rather vague so I need to spell out what I mean by it . |
| 15 | I will expand on what I mean by discourse in Chapter 10 but here it is sufficient to say that ‘ discourse ’ refers to the structured features of cultural processes when groups of signs become signifying elements in themselves . |
| 16 | What I mean by calling a sensation ‘ a sensation of white ’ is the same as my reason for calling it ‘ a sensation of white ’ . |
| 17 | What I mean by calling a sensation ‘ a sensation of white ’ is its mere resemblance to other sensations called by the same name . |
| 18 | But since the pain I have to experience to learn the concept is necessarily my pain , this explanation leads to our asking ourselves the question , ‘ What possible reason could I have to think that other people ever have what I mean by ‘ pain ’ ? ’ — a question which invites the answers , ‘ None ’ ( solipsism ) or , alternatively ‘ An argument from analogy ’ . |
| 19 | In its absence we would n't even be able to understand the question , ‘ What possible reason could I have to think that other people ever have what I mean by ‘ pain ’ ? , let alone the answers that have been given to it . |
| 20 | I have to decide what I mean by ‘ working-class ’ , and then I have to choose an ‘ indicator ’ of this concept . |
| 21 | What I mean by the ‘ graphology ’ of drawing is the study of the line , of the pure graphic quality , of the stroke , not that of the subject represented or the style . |
| 22 | The fact that I wrote the book may have suggested that I spoke a lot about private things , but that is not really what I mean by privacy in one 's life . |
| 23 | Before I come to discuss the philosophical problems that are raised by this sort of account of self and autonomy , I want to look at what I have called its implicit politics ; and what I mean by this primarily is its possible consequences for the way in which women might think about their relationships to each other , and the way in which they might think about themselves . |
| 24 | What I mean by prescient is this . |
| 25 | That 's what I mean by artificial jobs . |
| 26 | I would like to give you just one illustration to show what I mean by the disintegrating influence of a dynamic force . |
| 27 | Make no mistake about what I mean by selling : it does n't matter if you are trying to get people to buy tins of beans , contribute money to starving millions , or vote for a certain politician , you are selling the product , social cause , or person . |
| 28 | And you 'll come to understand exactly what I mean by that it 's all about three dimensional space . |
| 29 | In particular , it is necessary to pay close attention to the relationship of civil society ( within which I will include much of what I mean by a specific urban culture ) and state forms and processes , in a context of ‘ disorganized capitalism ’ . |
| 30 | And what I mean by that is for example er a pan like that we can buy for a quid which happens to be a . |