Example sentences of "mean [conj] [pron] must [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ By this I mean that we must show that we can meet current targets ; that we have the blend of skills and abilities our customers want ; that we have the desire to compete . |
| 2 | By this I mean that you must feel that you are dealing with an aspect of yourself as you draw . |
| 3 | By this I mean that you must feel that you are dealing with an aspect of yourself as you draw . |
| 4 | That meant that they must have had a good sexual relationship too . |
| 5 | Which meant that he must have been watched … and that made him wonder was he still being watched ? |
| 6 | The Shah said that he loved Soraya but the demands of monarchy meant that he must have an heir and so he had to sacrifice his love . |
| 7 | Which meant that he must have driven to Mariánské Láznë quite soon afterwards . |
| 8 | Why she was here , she could n't imagine ; but her head was clearer than it had been in a long time , which meant that she must have gone for some hours without any kind of an injection . |
| 9 | He had said ‘ we ’ , which heartened McAllister enormously but also meant that she must try to justify his confidence , and not let him down ; he must not think her a fine lady only playing at life — she meant to do her share , and yet try not to hinder him . |
| 10 | She would raise her lamp and view the lover that she herself had grown , even if this meant that she must lose him for ever . |
| 11 | When I say we must accept " the general outline of Darwinian theory " I do not mean that we must accept the dogma of gradualism which Darwin felt to be crucial but which is now becoming increasingly suspect . |
| 12 | This will normally mean that they must work for the company full-time . |
| 13 | But that does not mean that you must stand mute to it . |
| 14 | ( This does not mean that you must love being nervous or critical ; just that you must love yourself — whatever your Ego is up to . ) |
| 15 | so something erm I mean it , it just seems strange to me that , you know , something which has exist existed for thousands of years , you know , he 's suddenly sort of pooh-poohing so to speak , erm and I mean obviously the fact that there was a revolution twenty years later or whatever erm me means that something must have been wrong but erm you know i it 's strange how he 's suddenly criticizing and how the criticism has n't come before , how nothing 's happened before , how this seems an opportune moment for it to happen . |
| 16 | If priming effects are to be attributed to residual activation of logogens , the absence of cross-modal priming effects means that one must abandon the view that a single logogen system is used for visual and auditory word recognition , picture naming , and responding to definitions . |
| 17 | None the less , the fact that such alternatives are being employed means that one must look beyond both debt and FDI flows to capture a fuller sense of how multinationals are extending their reach into even the most troubled countries . |
| 18 | The specificity means that one must know which organism is being sought as each test will only seek that organism . |
| 19 | Mary Harrison has unfortunately had to give up her much-appreciated work in the Swarfham area ; her husband 's promotion means that they must move to Peterborough . |
| 20 | This means that they must refrain from instructing him about what he is to do … " ( p. 295 ) . |
| 21 | Some require what Abraham Maslow called self-actualization , which means that they must do the task that their nature demands . |
| 22 | The offspring have to be able to reproduce in their turn and this means that they must have sufficient food and space in which to breed . |
| 23 | This , in short , means that they must enter the political arena . |
| 24 | This means that we must examine the data carefully to see whether there is any difference in meaning between the uses with and without to , and then seek an explanation for the curious appearance of to with this sense of know . |
| 25 | This harsh reality means that we must do everything possible to limit our impact on the earth . |
| 26 | ‘ That means opening doors so that people are not denied the best education and the best health care ; it means that we must have equal opportunity , greater fairness . ’ |
| 27 | That means that we must have a set-aside system . |
| 28 | The increased qualified majority voting in the Council of Ministers , to which we have agreed in the treaty , means that we must have a way of keeping our national Parliaments better informed than they are at present . |
| 29 | Our eyes do not wander randomly around the page when we are reading , but certain sorts of words are fixated more often than others ( O'Regan , 1979 ) , and this means that we must know in advance of a fixation where it is that we are going to look next . |
| 30 | Perfect or absolute Truth , which is known by faith , is beyond our empirical grasp which means that we must act in the knowledge that we are holding on to such truth as we are able to apprehend in this world . |