Example sentences of "mean [is] " in BNC.
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1 | The clue to what he meant is the last sentence from Lewis : ‘ The lines and masses of a statue are its soul ’ . |
2 | Presumably , when her husband told her that he and his boss practised harmless sex , what he meant is that they do n't practise full gay sex . |
3 | But what it meant is it got read , written into the constitution , it meant that everyone can buy a gun . |
4 | Re-route , same thing as what you meant is n't it ? |
5 | Yes yes but what I meant is it does n't stop us being |
6 | What I do mean is that although most women do hope for a happy and loving relationship with their husbands , the attainment of this is not the purpose of marriage . |
7 | What it does mean is that he had made it plain that he intended a legal relationship to exist between two persons ( soon to become trustee and beneficiary ) . |
8 | What it would mean is that we would consider it immoral to treat animals as if they had no intrinsic value , as if they were of instrumental value only , merely means to human ends . |
9 | As already implied , the content of the foregoing speculations on the source and scale of man 's capability for life enjoyment and all that it could mean is , of course , hypothetical , and in any case the development was spread over millions of years , but it does however provide a basis for thought which does not require the invocation of the supernatural . |
10 | Gandhi claims that it can not be used in an unjust cause but what he might mean is that it should not be used in an unjust cause . |
11 | If a relative says something like , ‘ I have n't heard from you for so long I thought you had emigrated ! ’ , what they may really mean is , ‘ I wish you would come and see me more often . ’ |
12 | What this neglect may mean is the substance of this chapter . |
13 | What it does mean is that , if the manager adopts a very warm socio-emotional managerial style , then an informal or unofficial task-leader role may emerge in the work group . |
14 | What he did not mean is that women lack rationality ; they can and do deliberate . |
15 | A dispute over what they do mean is , in principle , like a legal dispute over the meaning of a statute . |
16 | What it does mean is that each employer will identify a specific number of vacancies which will be reserved for Compact graduates before being offered more widely . |
17 | The most this can mean is that the people who voted for the party did so knowing that it was planning to do certain things , and that therefore these voters can be assumed to have consented to those plans . |
18 | What it does mean is committing to actions to achieve the team 's vision of excellence . |
19 | What do you mean is that it ? |
20 | This is not to say that man can mine coal where it does not occur geologically , or that some settlements do not originate because of the existence of some material which the inhabitants extract ; what it does mean is that people themselves determine what is exploited and how they deal with the extraction . |
21 | walking you will continue to support the Anti-Apartheid Movement and the A N C and Cosatu and others in South Africa that our eyes should be on the prize and that is to get democracy and the first democratic parliament in the country and after that to help in the horrendously difficult task of reconstruction and development and it is going to be a tough battle in South Africa as elsewhere and we will need to work not just for political democracy because you know so often democratic processes are misunderstood for empowerment of ordinary people and what democracy should really mean is that ordinary people have the opportunity to determine their own destiny and you know from your own advanced society and others how little power individuals have as a result of power of finance capital , of industry and of technology now . |
22 | What er more staff would mean is that more visits can be made to more HMO 's to put more of the problems right ; it 's , it 's just about that simple . |
23 | What is meant is that an organism does something which reduces its own chances of survival and reproduction , and increases the chances of other members of the species . |
24 | What the development of state farms has meant is the demise of the peasant plot based on unpaid family labour , the reduction of seasonal employment and a growth in proletarianisation . |
25 | Whenever an issue arises which turns on sex determination , the law ( what is really meant is those who make the law ) is asked to rethink a classification system . |
26 | What is meant is really that it is not possible to learn to sign like a deaf person , i.e. without an ‘ accent ’ . |
27 | In Walton 's view , there is a need to consider factors to be taken into account if the phrase is to be infused with greater meaning , and to clarify whether what is meant is the best interests of all children in a particular community , or of deprived , maladjusted or delinquent children , or of one particular child . |
28 | What is actually meant is that the world is no longer so clearly divided as it was in the 1950s and 1960s into two armed camps of allies , with China , after 1960 , causing something of a schism in the Russian camp . |
29 | What " this meant is made crystal clear by the description of an army on the march in the Chartson des Lorrains : |
30 | When it is said ( as we shall say ) that the sentence That 's a dog entails the sentence That 's an animal , what is meant is that in any conceivable situation in which That 's a dog can ( with appropriate reference ) express a true proposition , there exists a corresponding proposition ( i.e. with no change in the referents of referring expressions ) expressible by That 's an animal , whose truth is a necessary consequence of the truth of the first proposition . |