Example sentences of "mean very " in BNC.
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| 1 | The greatest possible self-created order , he wrote , compatible of course with the freedom to work , which may mean very little order indeed or may mean a great deal of order , depending on the individual and the circumstances . |
| 2 | ‘ It will mean very strict planning — no more supermarkets and hypermarkets , no new industrial development sites . ’ |
| 3 | In later life the actual genital act may mean very little — a mere sideshow . |
| 4 | This , in reality , may mean very long delays before an instrument is installed , if at all . |
| 5 | ‘ I realise that intellectually it does n't really mean very much . |
| 6 | But the mere existence of such contacts did not mean very much . |
| 7 | Raising additional funds on this narrow tax base will mean very significant increases in the tax . |
| 8 | negative and excluding people , but I also think that labels can be very , very positive and very , very important and that 's , I think that 's why erm , people thought up the word feminism and yeah , okay we have to think about the word and we have to think about what it means for us so yeah , a lot of pe , er people do n't want to call themselves feminists because the label has such negative connotations , but it does also mean very positive things , it 's a way of bringing people together , it 's a way of supporting each other , it 's , you know it 's , brings solidarity to the movement and people need labels . |
| 9 | Single figures on their own can mean very little but compared with other sets of figures , they can take on greater significance . |
| 10 | Well that does n't mean very much . |
| 11 | But the mere existence of such contacts did not mean very much . |
| 12 | I mean , I mean , lots of different pupils would say that it does n't mean anything in the end because erm you know , what are we here for , what can we do , you know , and like why you know , I mean I , I 'm sure it does n't mean very much . |
| 13 | Erm , if I could say that , we show you lots and lots of photographs of bits of squashed metal , that does n't actually mean very much , and I think Mr more than anybody round here will with that . |
| 14 | For secondary school pupils , database creation may as yet mean very little outside the computer studies department but , on encountering some examples of databases in S1/S2 , they may remember similar exercises with football terms or animals in primary school . |
| 15 | But it would n't mean very much to me if I did , ’ she confessed to the tall lean man whom she assessed as being somewhere in his middle thirties . |
| 16 | ‘ It would n't mean very much to me either , ’ he replied with some charm , and , while Fabia 's heart gave a most unexpected flutter , he promptly took charge of her problem and , pointing to a patch of ground a little way over to the right , instructed , ‘ Steer your car over there . |
| 17 | If you use language that 's alien to that environment it does n't mean very much . |
| 18 | Okay , bully things , possibly in , in isolation do n't mean very much , put them over there . |
| 19 | Poverty may mean very stringent criteria of eligibility for services , ADSS senior vice-president Denise Platt has said . |
| 20 | And that if you open the doors to compensation whenever er this sort of thing arose , then th , this could mean very substantial expenditure for the Health Service . |