Example sentences of "it meant [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It meant five days of filming in Belfast city centre . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | On the revenue side it meant such devices as changing the weighting of the staff mix so that a greater proportion of unqualified staff were employed than might ideally have been desired . |
| 4 | To the miner , it meant two things : a rarity discovered and bread for his table . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But such charity was rare , for it meant real sacrifice . |
| 7 | More precisely , it meant that discussion about the organization and use of state power turned more on means and less on ends . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It meant 11 Townsmen had their back against the wall for an indirect free kick ; an incredible sight within the 6 yard box . |
| 13 | Cost her what it might , she would break off her engagement , and if it meant social ruin , so be it . |
| 14 | Speaking to the European Parliament ( EP ) after the summit Ruud Lubbers , Prime Minister of the Netherlands , said that the word federal had been dropped because it meant different things to different people . |
| 15 | With the micro-computers it meant different software , different machines ( at a higher price ) and different sales methods : rather large changes . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Ms Gordon said the recruitment agencies were enthusiastic about broking as it meant less time was spent pairing applicants with jobs . |
| 18 | Wheat was favoured , not merely because of its immediate importance as a basic food , but because it demanded least capital and least care , even where it meant wretched cultivations : only one-tenth of the cereal secano was farmed in regular rotations of wheat and legumes ; a quarter was cultivated only once every six or ten years . |
| 19 | The great treeless plains from Salamanca to Valladolid were most economically employed with wheat and grazed fallows , while other poorer provinces — Avila for instance — could grow little else , even if it meant wretched crops and three-year fallows . |
| 20 | Instead it meant hard work with a capital H for all the fifteen or so staff . |
| 21 | It meant bad weather played a bigger part than in any of the previous four competitions . |
| 22 | 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 |
| 23 | It meant more bread for the hungry , higher wages , and fewer hours of work . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It meant some women sat in virtual silence , unable to speak , even in the relative security of women 's groups . |
| 26 | Fortunately , that family was able to put in extra money — although it meant some sacrifices , such as doing without holidays and so on — but I contend that if those two girls had come from a less fortunate background , they simply would not have been able to continue their courses in current circumstances . |
| 27 | He threatened tough action to control council spending — even if it meant painful limits on Tory authorities . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Most ( 70 per cent ) said they would prefer the shortest possible repayment period , even if it meant large instalment payments . |
| 30 | It meant considerable upheaval . |