Example sentences of "it meant [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whichever method was used it meant long traffic holdups as the creatures went through the streets , their already frightened state heightened by a deal of cruelty on the part of many of the drovers . |
| 2 | John Redwood , a former head of Mrs Thatcher 's policy unit , saw no mileage in his current job as local-government minister if it meant non-stop council-bashing . |
| 3 | But such charity was rare , for it meant real sacrifice . |
| 4 | More precisely , it meant that discussion about the organization and use of state power turned more on means and less on ends . |
| 5 | We need to understand the position of the Sanhedrin , Jesus is really representing great changes in their tradition great a great revolution really and we know that what he was doing was was sort of getting Christianity to grow out of Judaism , but it meant that Judaism had to move to one side . |
| 6 | Yeah and we 've seen some different erm they had I think it was actually waiver paper as well when Murdoch bought it , and for a while he honoured the political content and then he decided he was gon na do major changes , and this may all sound familiar to you but erm the effect that that had I mean not only on the , on the , on the end up being this side , but also on erm the Mirror because it meant that Page Three Girls were in on the Daily Record in Scotland erm it was , it was quite profound I mean there 's a broader argument here as to whether you you should get pampered to those possible denominator to taste erm it 's interesting that the Daily Sport and the Sunday Sport which are two I do n't know if they have anything like it in Japan , but they 're a bit like the National Enquirer erm it 's all made up baseball there 's a sad proportion of erm journalist stories of fantasy land stuff erm along with erm photographic content and er copy content which probably |
| 7 | Once it meant political independence and freedom from commercial pressures , but given the increasingly prescriptive and bureaucratic nature of grant-aid that has become a dubious notion . |
| 8 | Usually , that duty was clear cut : it meant absolute obedience to her husband , and a rigid negation of her own wishes ; but there were occasions when a conflict of loyalty arose between husband and conscience , and the decision to visit her twin sister had been one of them . |
| 9 | Cost her what it might , she would break off her engagement , and if it meant social ruin , so be it . |
| 10 | With the micro-computers it meant different software , different machines ( at a higher price ) and different sales methods : rather large changes . |
| 11 | He could n't bear the thought of a child like Anna ever being subjected to the indecencies and ugliness of a house such as Claybury 's , and he vowed that from now on he would work only to make life for lunatics stress-free and tolerable , even if it meant less money for himself . |
| 12 | Ms Gordon said the recruitment agencies were enthusiastic about broking as it meant less time was spent pairing applicants with jobs . |
| 13 | Instead it meant hard work with a capital H for all the fifteen or so staff . |
| 14 | It meant bad weather played a bigger part than in any of the previous four competitions . |
| 15 | down into his arteries and we ca n't get anything down there so they 're blocked , but he said how the hell he survived that op I do n't know he said they could 've done more with his legs but it meant another hour and a quarter minutes in surgery , and he said he 'd had enough we could n't have kept him on the table a minute longer so he said all we can do is wait , so now mum said well he 's alright in intensive care , he 's responding well , getting over the operation well , but what we was worried about was him breathing on his own , had he , had he been you see , anyway he said this on er Thursday |
| 16 | It meant more bread for the hungry , higher wages , and fewer hours of work . |
| 17 | Oh aye aye er there was always that in the back of their mind that the the more rivets they put in per day , although it meant more money at the end of the week possibly , er it also meant that the the boat was therefore progressing or the ship was progressing that quick , that they were getting nearer the gate as the the saying went . |
| 18 | It meant growing State intervention in the economy , in the building of barracks , dockyards and fortifications and sometimes in the creation of entire new industries for war purposes . |
| 19 | Most ( 70 per cent ) said they would prefer the shortest possible repayment period , even if it meant large instalment payments . |
| 20 | It meant considerable upheaval . |
| 21 | They would gladly put up with a certain level of pregnancy risk if it meant fewer side effects . |