Example sentences of "mean when " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm pretty sure that by this stage I was suffering from what medical people mean when they talk about ‘ clinical depression ’ . |
| 2 | This is one of the things that philosophers mean when they say that our mental representations are ‘ opaque ’ : thoughts are ( necessarily partial ) representations of reality and therefore we can have one thought about a referent without having any access to another ( ‘ lover ’ / ‘ mother ’ ) . |
| 3 | This is what Fox and Lundman ( 1974 : 53 ) mean when they say that there are two ‘ gates ’ within police organizations which affect access — winning the support both of senior managers and of the ordinary members of the force who are the subjects of the research . |
| 4 | Perhaps it is , perhaps it is not ; our ignorance shows that what we mean when we speak of personal identity is continuity of consciousness , not of substance . |
| 5 | Which is what we mean when we talk of true harmony . |
| 6 | That is what I mean when I say that the problems of crofting , and other rural problems , are in an odd , but very real sense , a national resource . |
| 7 | That 's what you mean when you say it annoys me , is n't it ? |
| 8 | You see what I mean when I say it 's nothing new , it 's been endlessly talked around . |
| 9 | If someone was looking for The Bar in those days — because there was no name written up or sign for it , no lights at all , and not even a number on the door , Madame liked to keep it that way even when she did n't have to any more — I mean when she opened up we may all have been in a sort of hiding , and not many people knew about The Bar and our life there , but it was n't that way later , and now you know we can have lights and advertising and you see boys queueing up outside every night , very public , and I like to see that — but in those days , in those days if somebody arranged to meet you for a date there , and it was their first time and they were n't sure how to find us , you 'd joke with them , and you 'd say well first there is a wedding , and then there 's a death , and there 's the news , and then there 's us ; meaning , first there 's the shop with the flowers , the real ones , and next door to that is the undertaker 's with the fake flowers in the window , china , all dusty ; and then the newsagent 's and magazine shop , and then right next door to that is The Bar . |
| 10 | But you will no doubt also understand what I mean when I say it is not at all easy to define just what this quality is . |
| 11 | You will understand then something of the climate prevailing around Darlington Hall by the time of my father 's fall in front of the summerhouse — this occurring as it did just two weeks before the first of the conference guests were likely to arrive — and what I mean when I say there was little room for any ‘ beating about the bush ’ . |
| 12 | I 'm sure you 'll understand what I mean when I say that a reader in , for example , Moscow would find your book very difficult to relate to . |
| 13 | It expresses what we mean when we say that we have our reservations or vacillate about something . |
| 14 | Practice partner uses set sentence ( at normal speed of course ) : ‘ What do people mean when they say … ? ’ and finishes the sentence by including the key word . |
| 15 | What do people mean when they say , ‘ No smoke without fire ’ ? |
| 16 | What do people mean when they say , ‘ He wo n't set the Thames on fire ’ ? |
| 17 | What do people mean when they say , ‘ Spreads like wildfire ’ ? |
| 18 | What do people mean when they say , ‘ Fiery personality ’ ? |
| 19 | What do people mean when they say , ‘ Put your hand in the fire ’ ? |
| 20 | What do people mean when they say , ‘ Out of the frying-pan , into the fire ’ ? |
| 21 | What do people mean when they say , ‘ Fire away ’ ? |
| 22 | What do people mean when they say , ‘ Misfire ’ ? |
| 23 | What do people mean when they say , ‘ As weak as water ’ ? |
| 24 | What do people mean when they say , ‘ A lot of water has gone under the bridge ’ ? |
| 25 | What do people mean when they say , ‘ The excuse does n't hold water ’ ? |
| 26 | What do people mean when they say , ‘ Water it down a bit ’ ? |
| 27 | What do people mean when they say , ‘ A watering place ’ ? |
| 28 | Here a question may be raised as to just what we mean when we think of ourselves as plunged by the twentieth century into a chaos of relativism . |
| 29 | He adds : ‘ What people mean when they say we 're not efficient is that they would prefer to have a higher quality of service . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ What people mean when they say we 're not efficient is that they would prefer to have a higher quality of service . ’ |