Example sentences of "and [det] mean " in BNC.
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| 1 | And that means in a way one never stops working . |
| 2 | And that means regular work . |
| 3 | But remember that with one eye out of action , your stereoscopic vision is disabled and that means poor range perception . |
| 4 | A sport 's first concern , Pascoe says , should be its own development and that means presenting itself in the best possible way . |
| 5 | And that means inflation . |
| 6 | And that means fiddly switches scattered haphazardly across the dash and centre console like bits of shot fired from a blunderbuss . |
| 7 | And that means technique . |
| 8 | The Church , and that means all of us , including you , not just priests and bishops , has to spread the Good News to all the world . |
| 9 | ‘ My daughters said I should come here to help clear this thing up , to find who really did this because unless it is cleared up then history will say that we were sent to our deaths by Britain , and that means the British people and the British army and they do n't deserve that because it is out of character . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ The emphasis in working-class families will be on sons and daughters getting a career , ’ added Paul Davies , ‘ and that means courses like English will be left to students from middle-class families . ’ |
| 11 | The law was passed in the face of strong objections from southern deputies , echoing the view of one senior journalist earlier this month , that ‘ the law created more difficulties for editors , their rights will be limited and that means journalism in general will be limited . ’ |
| 12 | Because our winter closes in so sharply , whatever we sow for overwintering must go in earlier , and that means August . |
| 13 | And that means learning much more about the business she is in — most or all , learning to say ‘ no ’ . |
| 14 | I could n't find out if there 's peacocks on the lawn , because nobody knows what one is , but it must be the place , Evelyn , and that means — ’ |
| 15 | And that means the England midfielder will stay with last year 's European Cup finalists . |
| 16 | Yet , as the latest troubles with Olympia & York and the Tokyo stock market remind us , the recession shows no sign of ending and could get a lot worse unless real interest rates are brought down with a bang — and that means willingness to put the exchange rate mechanism second to domestic monetary policy . |
| 17 | Harris argues , however , that a van like a Transit has to appeal to a wide cross-section of operators , and that means the design has to be a compromise . |
| 18 | Ballet simply does not figure in black or working-class lives ; such children tend to go into dance through rock music , reggae , discos — and that means modern dance . |
| 19 | Added to which , the world insists on greater attention to environmental performance , ‘ and that means our operating and capital costs are rising every day ’ . |
| 20 | And that means you . |
| 21 | And that means I 'm a realist . |
| 22 | And that means that all these questions you are jumping in with will be answered as part of the statement I am here to make . |
| 23 | I am painting again and I 'm selling and that means a lot . |
| 24 | If you are born with a gene that results in your having a low metabolic rate , you need relatively smaller amounts of energy — and that means a smaller quantity of food — to keep yourself going , than people with a higher metabolic rate . |
| 25 | This is hard enough in our own lives but it is doubly hard in public work where it calls on people devoted to different ideals to work together in mutual acceptance , and that means not just tolerating one another but respecting and understanding what the other is talking about . |
| 26 | But now we can it last become what we really are and that means we shall become different from other men . |
| 27 | No objective reality means no certainties and that means agnosticism . |
| 28 | Using less energy — either as heat or electricity — means that less coal , oil or gas has to be burned , and that means less carbon dioxide — a major greenhouse gas — is produced . |
| 29 | We have to learn to communicate and that means conquering our fear of that process . |
| 30 | Your brain needs oxygen and that means you should breathe plenty of fresh air . |