Example sentences of "[vb past] mean [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Leftism " came to mean opposition to the National government and criticism of the Labour Party 's failure to express that opposition more strongly . |
| 2 | The musical genius of the Bach family for instance , which was so noticeable , that in that part of Germany where the Bachs lived , the word Bach which actually means brook , started to mean musician , because there were so many of them , er , that kind of inheritance of musical ability , was often explained in the past , as inheritance of acquired characteristics . |
| 3 | I thought meant Manchester United . |
| 4 | Again , Herbert Spencer believed that evolution was an on and upward process of , of increasing perfection culminating in Victorian man , and Herbert Spencer probably did mean man as opposed to woman . |
| 5 | When Djilas eventually decided that a new class had emerged in communist society he did not include all administrative officials but rather the ‘ party or political bureaucracy ’ , by which he appeared to mean state functionaries who were also party members . |
| 6 | It was true that in the 1880s youth work had meant philanthropy and religion , whereas in the 1900s it was felt to be the responsibility of local education authorities , juvenile employment committees , after-care committees and part-time day continuation classes in liberal and vocational studies . |
| 7 | ‘ Yes , well , if God had meant people to fly — ’ |
| 8 | Inevitably this assault had to mean trouble for some of their own folk , since they must drive through the outer ring of Scots to get at the enemy — the cost which had caused Ramsay momentarily to hesitate . |