Example sentences of "[adj] mean it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the car has a constant speed of fifty miles per hour this means it goes fifty miles in every hour . |
| 2 | A motor boat has a speed of four miles per hour this means it goes four miles in every hour |
| 3 | This means it passes directly into the gas phase without becoming a liquid . |
| 4 | This means it treats everything on your screen as an object , including the desktop . |
| 5 | This means it fights exactly like any other model in hand-to-hand combat except that it is immune to psychology and does not take a break test . |
| 6 | This means it has been grown slowly to full maturity , fattened on food containing no animal protein and at least 70 per cent cereal , and reared without the use of any antibiotics or growth-promoting additives . |
| 7 | This means it has to be new , capable of industrial application , involve an innovation , and not be excluded as a special case — such as military inventions . |
| 8 | It 's er what this means it means is that the guaranteed price in this country is a lot lower than it is in other European countries . |
| 9 | This means it needs effective screening and filtering which can be difficult , bulky and expensive . |
| 10 | Does that mean it has an infinite number of galaxies ? ’ |
| 11 | The Arbroath guidebook 's glossary has some of these — ‘ clearstorey : the range of windows in the upper part of a building ; Frater : a monastic refectory or dining hall [ alas not taken from the Latin for ‘ brother ’ , but from a French reduction of ‘ refreshment' ] ; Gablet : a decorative design in the form of a small gable , often above a window ; Pend : a vaulted passageway [ several pends in St Andrews ] ; Slype : a passage ; Triforium : the arcaded gallery between the main arcade and clearstorey ; Tympanum : the enclosed space within the head of an arched doorway [ does that mean it has a space behind like a drumhead — an open space inviting impressions to be made upon it ? ] ’ |
| 12 | That meant it went across the whole spectrum of the workforce . |
| 13 | That means it took longer to get to me . |
| 14 | That means it breaks down more often and they are prepared to pay Dowding 's premium prices for fast service . |
| 15 | ‘ And that means it goes so fast you ca n't even hear the separate beats . |
| 16 | That means it 's been used with copper . |
| 17 | That means it 's been kept carefully and put away securely , and certainly not alone . |
| 18 | There you are that says the end , that means it 's finished . |
| 19 | That means it has really very substantial influence indeed inside the Chinese working class . |
| 20 | I mean whether it 's high or low , and that means it has a winter song and a summer song . ’ |
| 21 | That I think is absolutely er fundamental erm to the issue , and because of the way the practically the the greenbelt local plan has been defined , that means it has to be practically outside the outer boundary of the greenbelt . |
| 22 | I know what that means it means if you get ten times further away you 've got ten times the acceleration but it 's pulling back in towards |