Example sentences of "would mean " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That 'd mean , or might mean , that Evans is not altogether wrong . |
| 2 | It 'd mean waiting till , often till the , the father came back from work and then he 'd have to er sometimes come right up to the er to the nursing home er to tell you that , that they was , that she was in labour and would we please come . |
| 3 | You ca n't have , yo it 'd mean one to serve and one take the money . |
| 4 | I mean , I 'd mean I 'd do it , in a week |
| 5 | Oh she 'd mean it , yeah ! |
| 6 | goodnight to you it 'd mean |
| 7 | because it 'd mean I 'd have to go to bank of and , and this borough and |
| 8 | This would mean containing within their state one million persons to whom such a national identity would be totally antithetical . |
| 9 | It would mean a reduced workload for you so I honestly ca n't see why you 're so set against the idea . ’ |
| 10 | This would mean that the patient is heavily reliant on assembled phonology . |
| 11 | Foreign influence over major US airlines would mean ‘ this framework would be radically altered , ’ he said . |
| 12 | Fortunately for Hammersmith and its citizens , legal advisers for all parties concerned have been unequivocal , all suggesting a defeat for the council , which would mean Hammersmith would not have to pay the losses on the transactions . |
| 13 | Leaders of the Association of University Teachers , representing university lecturers , are recommending a claim which would mean a 27 per cent pay increase for its 30,100 members . |
| 14 | A prime example of this is the genuine difficulty any Pope would have in recognising that Anglican priests are real priests since this would mean that when Pope Leo XIII declared in 1896 that Anglican orders were ‘ utterly null and void ’ , he was either silly or wrong or both . |
| 15 | Proposing the resolution , Mr Kent said it would mean a cut of at least £5bn — a quarter of this year 's defence budget . |
| 16 | The budget cuts would mean significant delays in 1990 production of missiles , a handful of which are due to be sold to Britain . |
| 17 | The Moroccan said that athletes might still take drugs if they thought being caught would mean only a temporary ban . |
| 18 | Refuting the argument that proportional representation would mean trimming to minority centrist positions , Robin Cooke , one of Labour 's leading advocates of reform , said : ‘ We have already gone to endless lengths to placate the centre ground . ’ |
| 19 | Rodney Bickerstaffe , general secretary of the public employees ' union Nupe , said that local management of schools , giving schools control over their own budgets would mean less money for education . |
| 20 | Jimmy Knapp , left-wing leader of the National union of Railwaymen believes that his members had a ‘ genuine ’ interest in the miners ' strike because pit closures would mean fewer coal trains . |
| 21 | The anticipated increase in rates to 14.75 per cent would mean a hike of 95p per thousand pounds borrowed without the benefit of income tax relief . |
| 22 | That would mean overcoming shortcomings in the democratic answerability of the EC institutions by making the the Commission ‘ more strong and more effective ’ . |
| 23 | Such a move would mean a fundamental change in how information is gathered and acted upon . |
| 24 | During the debate Roy Hattersley , the deputy leader , argued that it would be ‘ historic folly ’ for Labour to back proportional representation ; inevitable coalitions would mean that ‘ we would never again have a Labour government that was able to carry out a Labour programme ’ . |
| 25 | TO DENY the spirit of opera would mean to deny the development of the human spirit ; indeed of human thought' . |
| 26 | Going though another stage would mean a loss of control . ’ |
| 27 | The ‘ rolling programme ’ approach would mean creating an enlarged and more representative executive , fed by policy commissions of up to 100 members . |
| 28 | ‘ Imagine what it would mean to Britain if you had a player in Manchester and a player in Liverpool who won Wimbledon and the US Open , ’ he said , boggling the mind . |
| 29 | Failure to do so , he warned , would mean surrendering 25 per cent of the European car market to Japanese companies by the mid-1990s . |
| 30 | The Commission calculates , moreover , that the job of cross-checking between the customs departments of each member state into the validity of traders ' declarations would mean an exchange in electronic mail between them of about 20,000 million characters a year . |