Example sentences of "[modal v] mean a lot " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inwardly praying that she might be able to show her piety and understanding , she said , ‘ Yes , I 'm sure it must mean a lot to you . |
| 2 | It must mean a lot to her if it made her cry . |
| 3 | ‘ Yes — but unless I 'm mistaken it 'll mean a lot more to the man who attacked Anna . |
| 4 | This could mean a lot , or very little , depending on the urgency of the ‘ planning ’ and the effectiveness of the control mechanisms in the hands of the government . |
| 5 | When Joe visits London , it is a failure because Pip is embarrassed by Joe 's manners and begins to think of him as common , he then begins to neglect his background and the people who used to mean a lot to him . |
| 6 | This may mean a lot of waiting ! |
| 7 | Already I was wishing I 'd never been to see Angy , even though I knew how much being estranged from his family had hurt him and it would mean a lot to him to get the ring back . ’ |
| 8 | Oh I 'm sure it would mean an awful lot to them and the fact that you 're so successful coming out of Ireland would mean a lot to them as well you know and er er it 's nice to be able to er you know to do that for them if they 've been over here living for you know some of them have never been back maybe and some of them have never seen Ireland because maybe their their parents or their grandparents came from there . |
| 9 | ‘ But coming back to Anfield will mean a lot to Kenny . |
| 10 | Now if you take that through the examples they give , cos they 're quite good ones in there , it will mean a lot . |
| 11 | erm We park appallingly carelessly , some of us do it intentionally very often , some of us do it innocently or probably ignorantly , and perhaps to be fined on the spot would be a way of saving an awful lot of paperwork , an awful lot of time , and perhaps reminding people that they should n't be doing these things although I 'm always slightly worried , this is in a sense another problem , I 'm slightly worried by , by the inequity that six pounds or whatever it is will mean a lot to one person and hardly anything at all to another , and you do see some cars mis-parking again and again , and I 'm not sure that erm the instant penalty would make much difference there . |
| 12 | ‘ It can mean a lot , Mrs Wilson , it can mean a lot . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ It can mean a lot , Mrs Wilson , it can mean a lot . ’ |
| 14 | A word of encouragement can mean a lot and Barnabas was a fine example ( see Acts 15 verses 36/41 ) . |
| 15 | Doing things communicating with people verbally can mean a lot more now sometimes with a lot of bureaucracy you can get sucked in to putting everything down on paper but it does n't mean as much as it does when it 's face to face communication . |