Example sentences of "[conj] [det] [verb] mean " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm one has to say though that that does mean creating wealth . |
| 2 | Britain does need a proper , tip-top museum of modern art ; and that does mean splitting the Tate . |
| 3 | But nonetheless , I think we as county councillors can be proud of the fact that we have set a spending target for committees , we are prepared to allow the officers to manage their departments inside the targets that have been set , and that does mean that they have to look at er , what they 're spending and create priorities , and and I as a councillor am not in the least bit impressed by arguments that paper clips have increased by five and a half percent this year , and that felt l er pe felt line erm , pens have gone up by seventeen and a half percent , I think that 's largely irrelevant consideration , we 're not in the business of projecting budget , we 're in the business of providing money to deliver high quality services to the people of Wiltshire . |
| 4 | Both pockets have two retaining straps with quick release buckles and this does mean a lot of excess strapping when the pockets are n't full . |
| 5 | Where I think we have tried to do something interesting is in this idea of giving the student a , a whole year 's experience in the school to help them become professionalised , rather than the normal practice , the traditional practice of school practice , which meant going twelve , sixteen weeks into perhaps two bytes , into a school , and this does mean the student can get integrated with the school community and take part in the extramural life of the school , get involved in games and school plays and school outings in a way that 's not possible if they 're in and out on that short basis . |
| 6 | In any event , at the higher level Rusk announced that the independence of the Associated States of Indo-China within the framework of the French Union was now assured , even if this did mean squaring the circle or at least begging the question . |
| 7 | But that does mean that we accept the movie myth that these forces are externalised or become absolute in some creatures or people . |
| 8 | This is a good university with a reputation because we do have to work hard but that does mean there 's a lot of pressure on us |
| 9 | But that did mean she was also between me and Prentice , who was hovering trying to cut off my retreat as well , so maybe it 's true what they say about every silver lining having a cloud . |
| 10 | But this does mean that he thought that the law of value was the regulator of the Soviet economy . |