Example sentences of "mean [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean nothing to either of them . |
| 2 | We were at great pains to explain that we were novices and aware that diving in Barbados was unlike diving in the UK and were told that ‘ courses taken on holiday mean nothing at all ’ and that we should be prepared to snorkel around a pool for six months should he deem it necessary , and that even if we did dive to any standard we would be taken on a dive ( presumably in a pool ) , and ‘ ripped down ’ until we eventually failed a test . |
| 3 | PAMELA : [ coldly ] I mean nothing but good . |
| 4 | Central locations mean plenty of potential customers |
| 5 | I mean none of these people are like , you know , like wallflowers . |
| 6 | I mean one in seven of our bookings now are long haul holidays , and a large percentage of those will be going to America , and again the exchange rate from the pound to the dollar helps us there . |
| 7 | Lower than a thousand units er there 's no immediate affect and one 's tempted to think that erm the er er it 's , that radiation 's therefore safe below that level and that 's not strictly true because there is the possibility of a long term affect it can actually cause cancer in the long term but with very low er ra- er levels of risk cos you can see down at the levels where people actually get radiation doses er like erm members of the public or erm from the actual background of people who work in nuclear power stations , you 're talking about very low levels but the levels , those sort of levels I mean one in three hundred thousand , one in three million , that sort of thing you ca n't actually measure in real er populations because there er any effects that there are can be swamped by other ways of getting er of getting cancer . |
| 8 | Just sit down ( I thought the idea was to dance — IM ) and listen to ‘ Yes Please ’ a few times until you realise that Shaun 's lyrics and the band 's music together still mean something to all their fans who follow a band purely for their music … so what were you doing talking to the stupid old Happy Mondays after all ? |
| 9 | Therefore you will need to rewrite that in a way which mean something to modern erm , readers . |
| 10 | But surely for the early moderns also : terminology apart , did not nosce teipsum only ever mean something like that ? |
| 11 | that 's it , I mean something like that , you know , we 'll work something |
| 12 | To our utter dismay and astonishment , he told us that our certificates meant nothing at all to him or BSAC and that ‘ even if Jacques Cousteau were to come along with a PADI qualification , no notice would be taken of it . ’ |
| 13 | Well , I meant nothing at all , I assure you . |
| 14 | ‘ Love , Leo , ’ meant nothing at all , she tried to convince herself . |
| 15 | He said this with a certain measured diffidence , as though it meant nothing at all to him , and was just a casual observation . |
| 16 | Hugh had referred to de Craon and Maeve knew enough about the Frenchman to realise he meant nothing but ill for her husband . |
| 17 | But she instructed her fast-beating heart not to be so idiotic , that Ven meant nothing by that other than that he was intrigued that her journalistic methods were unlike those of any other journalist he had met . |
| 18 | It was obvious that hammering a Strat into the stage or setting it on fire meant nothing in financial terms to our heroes . |
| 19 | Last spring , when local authorities were rushing to finish community care plans , a report came out which showed they might mean nothing to many people . |
| 20 | Two exquisite thoroughbreds , she supposed they had looked , chatting to one another in their high-pitched , well-bred " London " voices , filling each shop in turn with their faintly tittering laughter , making Frizingley aware — whatever it chose to whisper behind their backs — that the dynastic alliance of one trading " and therefore " common " fortune with another could mean nothing at all to them . |
| 21 | Or , like the note from a sick friend sent to the about-to-be-murdered Mrs Abby Borden of Fall River , it might mean something or might mean nothing at all . |
| 22 | No I did n't mean nothing by that |
| 23 | They probably do n't mean me at all . |
| 24 | The problem was that I think David was moving so much away and into this trip of actually doing music with a message — of actually delivering something on stage which meant something to other people of his age . |
| 25 | mm I thought you meant something like this |
| 26 | Difficult to get the old fire up for the Greater Glory of flag , Empire and Prime Minister Ian Paisley , but hearth , home and humping still meant something in this godrotten hellhole khazipit of a world . |
| 27 | The Shadow Scottish affairs spokesman , Henry McLeish , pointed out that over 500,000 Scots work for local and central government which meant one in four Scottish jobs could be threatened by a severe public expenditure clampdown . |
| 28 | True , the association is dominated by Labour but that does not mean everything within this extensive report is included for party political reasons . |
| 29 | We should mean something to each other , something more than animated objects , walking . |
| 30 | Do we mean something like one sand grain every square metre of sea-floor per minute , per day , per year ? |