Example sentences of "has a [adj] meaning " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | These provisions only apply to settlements but that term has a wide meaning . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . ) . |
| 5 | Liberty for Hayek has a specific meaning . |
| 6 | The following sentence has a straight-forward meaning : |
| 7 | ‘ The phrase ‘ universal primacy ’ has a spiritual meaning . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It is said that each of these elements has a symbolic meaning . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | This means the term " indirectly " has a narrow meaning . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ Acceptance ’ has a technical meaning . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , despite its vagueness , the term ‘ deindustrialization ’ has a real meaning to all who have lived in the UK in the 1970s and 1980s . |
| 17 | Depending on how Dave makes this greeting , it has a certain meaning . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The authors concerned assume that the word " father " ( or its equivalent in other languages ) has a single meaning in itself , whereas in fact it has many different meanings depending upon what other term forms the other half of the dyadic relationship . |
| 21 | The title ‘ Futility ’ has a double meaning : at first , the futility of the attempts to rouse the soldier and in the latter half , the futility of all the complexity of the earth and the effort put into achieving this when it is just destroyed . |
| 22 | However , if they are rearranged to read ‘ Put the blanket on this child ’ the sentence has a different meaning . |
| 23 | But to Japan 's Ministry of International Trade and Industry' ( MITI ) the word has a different meaning . |
| 24 | A day by the seaside has a different meaning on the breezy east coast . |
| 25 | Numeracy has a different meaning now . |
| 26 | In a neutral context like It 's — , heavy has a different meaning . |
| 27 | Spreads in futures are also called straddles although , in the context of traded options , ‘ straddle ’ has a different meaning . |
| 28 | But now I think it has a different meaning . |
| 29 | The concept of space has a different meaning to different cultures . |
| 30 | Probability has a precise meaning here . |