Example sentences of "it means [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You have n't really got the answer at all you 've just written it differently and that 's all it means whatever you 're sharing out goes on the top what ever number of people of people it 's being shared out between go underneath . |
| 2 | As one man expressed it : ‘ When all 's said and done we have to get a product out and the management are interested in how cheap it can be done and although it means sacrificing the worker it means one has a cheap product . ’ |
| 3 | But I have to say for Shropshire , it means one I think , er , per year , and that 's not going to make a big dent . |
| 4 | It means one in four schools do not have a full staff . |
| 5 | Beyond this , current sensations converge with knowledge and memory and desire to make sense of the experience of the present : I not only experience this object but I recognize it — as something of a certain kind ; as yours , as mine , as something I have seen before ; and it means something to me in terms of my appetites and needs and ambitions . |
| 6 | It means something has been said or something has happened that has put the subject of the remark in an uncomfortable place . |
| 7 | This provides the best possible security for their workforces but it means something more in terms of the ‘ family silver ’ . |
| 8 | It means something for people to see the top golfers of the different nations playing together . |
| 9 | Their flimsy ruse blown , British and continental federalists try the unconvincing tactic of denying that the French and Germans mean ‘ federal ’ when they use the word , saying it means something else in other languages . |
| 10 | It is to have failed to give the transcendence of God its proper cash value , to have weakened it so that it means something like ‘ outside the solar system ’ or ‘ above the galaxy ’ . |
| 11 | No , when you read the word ‘ love ’ in the Bible it means something completely different ; you do n't have to hug anyone , kiss anyone or call them Ermentrude to love them the Jesus way . |
| 12 | It means something different to each of them and they are all astonished . |
| 13 | Moore 's account of what he means by a natural property is none too clear , but in effect it means something like detectable by the senses or by scientific instruments . |
| 14 | It means something like : surprisingly fanciable if it was socially OK to fancy women of that age . |
| 15 | Although you look far too pretty to suffer from the present malaise , you might find it means something to your generation . ’ |
| 16 | Unless it means something to you it 's not really much point . |
| 17 | Erm then you gradually get used to it , and when you read it , you 've read it several times , it means something to you then . |
| 18 | If it means something not very valuable , why not water ? |
| 19 | The derivation of the word ‘ fact ’ can indeed remind us that it means something constructed rather than just observed . |
| 20 | The lack of public confidence in the police and the declining status of the police profession was commented upon by a police constable : ‘ I want to leave the station wearing my uniform and feel proud , that it means something , honour and dignity . |
| 21 | " The thing is , " I said , " in England , it means something else . " |
| 22 | It looks the same as a racist stare , but it means something different . |
| 23 | ‘ Of course it means something to me — but I know you 'll survive . |
| 24 | If ‘ home ’ means , though , the defence of self and close kin for what Rainwater calls the ‘ lower class ’ , it means something quite different for those who have managed to escape from this class and who have achieved a degree of economic and emotional stability . |
| 25 | The court has held that it means something more than " useful " , " reasonable " or " desirable . " |
| 26 | pi means , hopefully , it means something to you now . |
| 27 | Progna I s to be quite h I 've forgotten , it used to me it means something quite interesting and I 've forgotten . |
| 28 | It means something like erm , what it says |
| 29 | And what he really meant to say was , you ca n't use money as a er a as a sort of parallel to energy , but paradigm does n't mean parallel , it means something , something different . |
| 30 | That 's is the erm the real world often is very vague , and it 's a great mistake to be clear about it , but on the other hand it means something . |