Example sentences of "mean [adv] [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This does not mean merely that correctness of translation is undetermined by all the possible data . |
| 2 | Nuttall and Gipps ( 1982 ) estimate that the direct cost of the APU was £800,000 per year , which crudely would mean less than £30 per school . |
| 3 | That can mean only that UKIAS was to be made the exclusive provider of legal advice . |
| 4 | Even where contact is frequent and based upon mutual affection , that does not mean necessarily that mothers and daughters are significant sources of support for each other , as I indicated in my discussion of emotional support . |
| 5 | Erm before we do anything let's have a look and see what it would mean if , it would mean just as numbers . |
| 6 | BankAmerica Corp 's Bank of America has chosen MCI Communications Corp as its primary long-distance carrier in a deal that will mean more than $250m in revenue over the four-year life of the contract , MCI said , without revealing the terms . |
| 7 | It may mean also that strikes are openly directed against state policy as much as against management 's negotiating position , as with the French public sector strike in the mid-1960s against government fixing of the total wage bill ( Dubois 1975 : 114–15 ) , or the wave of public sector conflicts over the Spanish government 's wage control and restructuring policies in early 1987 . |
| 8 | I think it does mean though that issues like erm long term sickness erm the issue that you 've got with the two people in your patch , one of whom might go to the help desk , you need to get that resolved P D Q so you can say well I 've reduced my h the temp over budget by one . |
| 9 | ‘ She certainly seems to be enjoying life now , ’ said Greg — and then , realizing this was open to misunderstanding , he added : ‘ I do n't mean now that Hilda is dead , of course — I just mean she 's revelling in this revival of interest in Walter Machin . ’ |
| 10 | Oh do you mean now or resolution in total or , or separately . |
| 11 | A ‘ practitioner ’ view was also identified which was pragmatic , accepting elements of both the major value positions outlined here but being more aware of the need for different approaches in different individual cases , and more concerned about matters of detailed practice than of principle ( though this may mean simply that values and principles were not made explicit ) . |
| 12 | By " saying " things I do not mean simply that men talk about what they do , but that all their social behaviour is " coded " so that it makes statements about what the social situation is and where the actor is positioned in that social situation . |
| 13 | Which was , say , when they 'd started the the roll of bacon , there always used to be some little bits before they got the full rashers , well , you could n't sell those , you could n't s I mean even though things were tight in those days , you could n't sell any sort of bacon , you either sold best back , or you sold belly bacon . |
| 14 | ( Doane 1984 , p. 6 ) But this does not mean either that film-viewers are not also active readers of film who can produce their own meanings , or that identification with mainstream fiction film characters means unconditional surrender to bourgeois ideology . |
| 15 | Does this mean therefore that RMI has to be a massive concentrated effort to bring everything on-stream at the same time ? |