Example sentences of "it mean " in BNC.
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| 1 | The legal fall-out of the £190million scandal and the criminal cases which have resulted from it mean that , on grounds of fairness alone , it would not be right to pre-judge the trials due to start next year . |
| 2 | ‘ And did learning about it mean trying it ? ’ |
| 3 | The weight of development money from such a vast army of different interests behind it mean that it will dominate what used to be known as the data processing department however much the purists suck their teeth in fastidious disdain . |
| 4 | To make it mean that you 've got four Os as well you put it in brackets . |
| 5 | So he snarled. –Does it mean that much to you ? ’ |
| 6 | It mean that we may not be able to rejoice in what is happening now . |
| 7 | Essentially it mean that er the work is is more or less complete and therefore we are pricing it on the basis of the actual out turn of costs . |
| 8 | It mean in fact that they were thinking of abstractions in quite a different way from the way we think of them . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | White ceiling , white curtains shifting in a breeze , a huge bed neither would admit they had seen and what it meant . |
| 12 | And Niall got up and said , music to my ears , that Erin 's soil was n't green either but we all knew what it meant … |
| 13 | Whatever it meant she was n't going to think about it . |
| 14 | I did n't chew my nails with regret at giving him my virginity , furious at my weakness in lying down for him , and taking this boy in my arms just because he was English , a citizen of that great nation which had once ruled half the globe : nor did I blame myself for clinging on to an idea even though it meant severing my links with my country , and travelling to London alone without any member of my family . |
| 15 | And this difference between them and such initially sympathetic Englishmen as Hewlett and Newbolt went very deep ; for ultimately it meant that , when the question arose whether the artist 's first responsibility was to his art ( his trade ) or to his society , Pound and Lewis and Ford would opt for the first alternative , Hewlett and Newbolt for the second — as indeed we soon see them doing when both of them answer the call of First World War patriotism by writing moralebuilding poems and stories . |
| 16 | It meant that Yorkshire , if not previously committed to open plan , had no choice than to adopt one . |
| 17 | Others said Hong Kong should be optimistic , not because 1997 meant so much , but because it meant so little . |
| 18 | Ms Gordon said the recruitment agencies were enthusiastic about broking as it meant less time was spent pairing applicants with jobs . |
| 19 | And if it meant that Senna were to lose the championship , then the legal ramifications would be far-reaching . |
| 20 | It meant that we could keep moving forward and keep our rhythm . ’ |
| 21 | When Labour opposed sequestration of union assets it meant , ‘ strike freely ’ , when it said trade union immunities would be restored it meant ‘ strike often ’ , and when it approved of enabling secondary action it meant ‘ strike anywhere ’ . |
| 22 | When Labour opposed sequestration of union assets it meant , ‘ strike freely ’ , when it said trade union immunities would be restored it meant ‘ strike often ’ , and when it approved of enabling secondary action it meant ‘ strike anywhere ’ . |
| 23 | When Labour opposed sequestration of union assets it meant , ‘ strike freely ’ , when it said trade union immunities would be restored it meant ‘ strike often ’ , and when it approved of enabling secondary action it meant ‘ strike anywhere ’ . |
| 24 | But to Enoch it meant a very great deal . ’ |
| 25 | To enthusiasts , it meant the passing of ‘ the dependency culture ’ in favour of a new wave of enterprise and individualism . |
| 26 | But the tense negotiations over the formation of the Alliance , debate over what precisely it meant in terms of policy and tactics ( did it support a coalition , for instance , and if so , with whom ? ) , left the SDP hamstrung from the start . |
| 27 | But the committee was hopelessly divided on what it meant by Christian hope — whether it was hope for peace and perfection in this world , or hope for a future life , or hope only of forgiveness at the last . |
| 28 | They said it meant the latter ; they said they were ‘ prepared to see the ratio between profits and incomes preserved at a reasonable level by a tax which would become operative upon all industry when a certain figure was exceeded by profits as a whole ’ . |
| 29 | More immediately , it meant that , as a matter of self-respect , nearly all the remaining territories of the former empire , as they successively became independent , were bound to become independent as republics . |
| 30 | This did not mean that the play itself was not exciting as drama , but it meant that for Eliot , intent on his search for a vital relation between ritual and art , this play would not suffice . |