Example sentences of "it mean [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew that look : it meant Stop Asking . |
| 2 | He thought it meant breasts . |
| 3 | It meant militants in the South had turned to violence to gain Home Rule , while militants in the North would use violence to prevent it . |
| 4 | It meant brick dust and disorder . |
| 5 | All about running for trains they could n't catch or being sat on by scaly monsters , and they got hold of books that told you that it meant Sex . |
| 6 | It meant Liverpool collected a red card in each of their last three European ties , following the dismissals of Paul Stewart and Bruce Grobbelaar . |
| 7 | Especially when it meant spending money . |
| 8 | Technically , it meant problems of co-ordination within production ; socially , the sheer boredom of a minutely divided labour process , or technical division of labour , showed signs of countering its technical possibilities of increasing productivity ; and , more widely , the collective bargaining by workers in large factories began to put pressure on profits . |
| 9 | And he had to spend a good part of the campaign explaining that it meant caution and not complacency . |
| 10 | It meant Europe and those countries which inherited European traditions and values . |
| 11 | It meant £9 : 6s. : 11d. each per month : be sure they worked hard for their money . |
| 12 | To Anselm it meant freedom from an intolerable position . |
| 13 | More importantly to Branson , it meant Virgin were on a far smaller margin of any profit . |
| 14 | Reportedly worth $3million , it meant Turlington could only be photographed in Klein 's clothes . |
| 15 | Citizenship did not mean mere membership in the diluted modern sense ; it meant membership in its original sense , by analogy with the members or parts of the human body . |
| 16 | It meant passengers from Bicester and Aylesbury could get into London . |
| 17 | As well as causing a breakdown in the economic system , the inflation led to a spread of corruption ; it meant humiliation for many thousands of families , whilst a few successful speculators found themselves with untold wealth . |
| 18 | For the Greek it meant student , pupil or apprentice . |
| 19 | Secondly , it meant equality before the law , or ‘ the equal subjection of all classes to the ordinary law of the land administered by the ordinary Law Courts ’ . |
| 20 | from Gloucester , he thought it meant Glasgow . |
| 21 | The Clause was wrong if it meant schools could not have proper and adequate discussion , but if it meant that local authorities should not promote homosexuality then Mr Roberts would support it . |
| 22 | Do you remember Uncle Charles Lane building a bomb-proof wall outside the kitchen ? — and how you were so excited when the raids came because it meant Pop and I were able to stop work and play idiotic games with the three of you ? ! |
| 23 | With grave face and totally businesslike voice he began to talk about the beginnings of this place , of the way he had planned and discussed the enterprise , and how he had enabled the local people to be involved all the way through , so that they knew what he was planning , and they did n't feel threatened by him , but collaborated with him , knowing that it meant jobs , roads and plumbing and a higher standard of living for them all . |
| 24 | ‘ If it meant Eileen was happy . |
| 25 | It finished up with one erm very relevant , relevant to this class , quotation erm ca n't remember the last part of it though , he was talking about the Indian , that he had a , talking about it and saying voodism catholism and then the next stage erm which I ca n't remember the word but in effect it meant co-operation and you ca n't get that it seems to me unless you have a , a change of vision , change in erm not just in society but in people because this is where it starts . |
| 26 | But of course , once Mrs Farr Senior had expressed doubts about a woman , it meant Henry was almost duty bound to marry her , just as , as soon as she expressed a political or aesthetic opinion , he immediately experienced a passionate surge of enthusiasm for the view most directly opposed to it . |
| 27 | but it meant people could go up to the box office and take a tape recorder and sit and listen to them |
| 28 | It meant people who kept sheep were happy . |
| 29 | And some people say that 's the best thing that happened to it being voted that cos it meant people had done things about it and sorted it out but you think it 's still dull as |
| 30 | It meant violence . |