Example sentences of "mean [conj] we [verb] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then later , couple of months later when we found that list checked that we understood what the list meant and we presented that list to our church meeting . |
| 2 | The drama thing , so I 'm a se a section hand already on that and I 've even got a , well we 're supposed to listen to it tomorrow , we 've got a tutor period instead , so it means that we miss another lesson |
| 3 | In her book , The Prime of Your Life , Dr Miriam Stoppard writes , ‘ Living in the twentieth century means that we feel more stress than any members of the human race have ever felt . ’ |
| 4 | And we do know , that when we 're negotiating in Europe , the fact that we do not negotiate as the er , Portuguese , the Spanish , the Germans , negotiate , as a regional government , it means that we carry less clout , and that is a fact of European life . |
| 5 | It means if we had that spending assessment and our costs , instead of the listeners getting a bill for four hundred pounds in their letterbox in May they would get a cheque for over five hundred pounds . |
| 6 | Basically everything we all agree at the Institute the question of improving the lot of the Third World is the responsibility of Third Worlders , and in fact a number of us would add that in very many cases , certainly not in all , it would not be achieved through slow incremental technical change , but would require in some cases very major social structural changes that in some cases erm will only be brought about very major social upheaval erm and there all we can do is add to perhaps the element of increasing consciousness and awareness of the problems , which furthermore is a two way street , I mean when we have this study activities we learn as much from the people who attend the seminars as we tell them . |