Example sentences of "it [adv] mean " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does it not mean that preparers of accounts and auditors can never satisfy the market 's reasonable expectations ? |
| 2 | But if , as Thorez implied , the Vietnamese and French Communist Parties should work together , would it not mean that the campaign for national liberation would have to be abandoned ? |
| 3 | But how could it possibly mean ‘ suit ’ ? |
| 4 | Fun , sure — but what could it possibly mean ? |
| 5 | If you 're asking a civil engineer to do some work for you i if that civil engineer has a degree does it automatically mean that the work 's going to be perfect and wonderful ? |
| 6 | Capitanchik : Will it also mean that you will have more training programmes for these people now that they are more permanently employed ? |
| 7 | But what could it also mean ? |
| 8 | Yes , okay , could we ask Mr Chairman , on this particular thing on this arson business in one thing that we did express concern of were a number of years that are invariably are started we 've called in to do the research into this and the investigation , so ar does this add now the fact that you 're more sophisticated , does it now mean that your having more staff er , devoted to this , because this was a question that whether we should do it , or whether the police should be doing it ? |
| 9 | But what does it really mean ? |
| 10 | WHAT DOES IT REALLY MEAN |
| 11 | What does it really mean ? |
| 12 | But what does it really mean ? |
| 13 | And when these poor fools won their vote what would it really mean to them but the right to choose their own oppressors ? |
| 14 | It was rousing stuff , but what did it actually mean ? |
| 15 | And what does it actually mean ? |
| 16 | It will be interesting to know how the wha how the minister proposes to define er materials er material significance , er who will issue guidance on that point er will it be the professional associations , is it something that the government is going to turn it 's mind to and what is , what does it actually mean er for example if the auditor was looking at the Maxwell accounts er what what is a matter of material er er er significance , er for example would it be materially significant that just about every one er er who you spoke to at the time thought that Maxwell was a crook although interestingly that was n't er apparently the view of the regulator or that are directly responsible for these matters , er but even before Maxwell was exposed for the the crook that he was er many , many people knew from him that his conduct , er the way his conducted himself , the D T I itself of course had said that he was a a a manifestly unsuitable person er to be in charge of a company . |
| 17 | Now we all know the word recession ; we 've heard of it before , but , but what does it actually mean ? |