Example sentences of "they mean [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When economists speak of ‘ Positive economics ’ they mean a predictive science , governed solely by the test of experience . |
| 2 | When professionals who work in mental health services talk of an ‘ integrated , comprehensive , seamless service ’ they mean a service where acute hospital beds , hostels , group homes , community teams and services for people in their own homes , are all managed as one service with one team of people who have total responsibility . |
| 3 | It seems sensible therefore to assume that they mean a contract which contains no condition preventing Rule 1 from applying . |
| 4 | These books are my tools of the trade and they mean a tremedous amount to me . |
| 5 | I think they mean a back pack , warm jacket or coat , in-expensive camera and film I think they mean a back pack . |
| 6 | I think they mean a back pack , warm jacket or coat , in-expensive camera and film I think they mean a back pack . |
| 7 | They mean no disrespect to your ma . ’ |
| 8 | ( Of course , no utterances are safe from the post-Freudian trick of claiming that they mean the opposite of what they say , but in the interpretation of literary texts we must be given additional , fairly unequivocal evidence of a discrepancy between speech and meaning , as we are given for Iago , but not for Othello . ) |
| 9 | One might even extend the idea and talk of semantic parallelism where two sentences are linked because they mean the same thing . |
| 10 | a natural request erm th the Liberal Democrat one is much more workers and er , and er they mean the same thing , and I think I would er ask for this group er support er the second one rather than the first one . |
| 11 | They mean an easy , phonetic ( or rather phonemic ) system such as alphabetic literacy and they think of a ‘ literate society ’ as one in which such a script is widely assumed in public life , as they claim it was in sixth century Greece . |