Example sentences of "has [art] [adj] meaning " in BNC.
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| 1 | has the following meaning . |
| 2 | This last line has the overt meaning ‘ till the woman casts off the man ’ , but in fact it is far more savage . |
| 3 | If we accept the mundane world view — that disease has no inherent meaning or significance , that it is ‘ caused ’ by infections , viruses , heredity , biochemistry and the like , and can be ‘ cured ’ by suppressing the symptoms with drugs or removing the offending part — then we are throwing away a priceless gift , covering our ears as our Higher Self tries to speak to us . |
| 4 | The concept of ‘ normality ’ has no real meaning other than that of the personal viewpoint of any individual . |
| 5 | It is obvious that environmental factors exert a far-reaching influence on this particular AL and , indeed , the concept of ‘ safety ’ has no real meaning unless it is considered in relation to ‘ the environment ’ . |
| 6 | Bank in 2 can also be interpreted in more than one way ( e.g. ‘ margin of river ’ or ‘ establishment for the custody of money ’ ) ; but it has no general meaning covering these possibilities . |
| 7 | But this statement is an oversimplification : the phrase ‘ having the force of law ’ has no precise meaning but is an amalgam of features which different rules may possess to a greater or lesser extent . |
| 8 | " Obvious " has no special meaning but is judged by looking at the invention as a whole and considering the entire state of the art . |
| 9 | To say that a man frequents a particular address has no defamatory meaning to ordinary readers — unless they know that the address is a brothel . |
| 10 | From this it would follow that the principle of organic unities has no clear meaning . |
| 11 | An exclusion of structural or inherent defects may be a starting point , although it could be suggested that the expression " inherent defect " has no clear meaning and that the exemption of the tenant from such liability may , from the landlord 's point of view , make serious inroads into a full repairing liability . |
| 12 | This involves changing the verb altogether and replacing it with one that has a similar meaning but can be used in a different syntactic configuration . |
| 13 | These provisions only apply to settlements but that term has a wide meaning . |
| 14 | Mr Kinnock and Mr Smith may not do much to frighten us , but by the system of patronage — some would call it deference or sycophancy — which operates in this country , we will find , overnight , that respectability somehow has a new meaning : that judges , policemen , journalists , school teachers , even the local sanitary inspectors or environmental health officers , suddenly start looking at things in a different way . |
| 15 | This is because cousin has a general meaning which covers all the more specific possibilities ( not only with regard to sex , but also with regard to an indefinitely large number of other matters , such as height , age , eye-colour , etc . ) . |
| 16 | Liberty for Hayek has a specific meaning . |
| 17 | The following sentence has a straight-forward meaning : |
| 18 | ‘ The phrase ‘ universal primacy ’ has a spiritual meaning . |
| 19 | Thus the objectors would want to say that it is a " religiously " true statement that God raised Jesus from the dead , and this has a spiritual meaning ; but that on the level of history , Jesus died and remained dead and buried . |
| 20 | It is said that each of these elements has a symbolic meaning . |
| 21 | These are very strong powers , and it is clearly important to establish the meaning of ‘ development ’ , particularly since the term has a legal meaning far wider than in ordinary language . |
| 22 | The Aberdeen and Shetland mail steamers call at Wick Bay , weather permitting ; this clause has a deep meaning in it , as many can witness who have seen how the waves break on that shore at times . |
| 23 | On the other hand , there is a reservation to be entered : that if the verb of the construction has a lexical meaning involving a change of state through time , then the two types of anteriority — constructional/linguistic and external/situational — will naturally tend to march in step . |
| 24 | This means the term " indirectly " has a narrow meaning . |
| 25 | Hence , the quotation marks around the word ‘ doing ’ emphasize that it has a technical meaning in sociology , for lying behind the process is a body of common-sense and official police knowledge which informs the methods and practices according to which activities are done . |
| 26 | ‘ Acceptance ’ has a technical meaning . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , despite its vagueness , the term ‘ deindustrialization ’ has a real meaning to all who have lived in the UK in the 1970s and 1980s . |
| 28 | Depending on how Dave makes this greeting , it has a certain meaning . |
| 29 | In genetival relation with a personal name it can be taken for granted that , has a metaphorical meaning , e.g. " the way of Jeroboam " ( 1 Kgs 15.34 ; 16.2 ) , " the way of David " ( 2 Kgs 22.2 ) . |
| 30 | The terms of this argument repeat exactly those of the critical debate about univocal meaning , according to which the only alternative to the idea that history has a single meaning must be that it has none at all . |