Example sentences of "[noun sg] has a [adj] meaning " in BNC.
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| 1 | The following sentence has a straight-forward meaning : |
| 2 | However , if they are rearranged to read ‘ Put the blanket on this child ’ the sentence has a different meaning . |
| 3 | These provisions only apply to settlements but that term has a wide meaning . |
| 4 | These are very strong powers , and it is clearly important to establish the meaning of ‘ development ’ , particularly since the term has a legal meaning far wider than in ordinary language . |
| 5 | A day by the seaside has a different meaning on the breezy east coast . |
| 6 | The concept of space has a different meaning to different cultures . |
| 7 | This is because cousin has a general meaning which covers all the more specific possibilities ( not only with regard to sex , but also with regard to an indefinitely large number of other matters , such as height , age , eye-colour , etc . ) . |
| 8 | The Aberdeen and Shetland mail steamers call at Wick Bay , weather permitting ; this clause has a deep meaning in it , as many can witness who have seen how the waves break on that shore at times . |
| 9 | Numeracy has a different meaning now . |
| 10 | But to Japan 's Ministry of International Trade and Industry' ( MITI ) the word has a different meaning . |
| 11 | Probability has a precise meaning here . |
| 12 | The terms of this argument repeat exactly those of the critical debate about univocal meaning , according to which the only alternative to the idea that history has a single meaning must be that it has none at all . |
| 13 | On the other hand , there is a reservation to be entered : that if the verb of the construction has a lexical meaning involving a change of state through time , then the two types of anteriority — constructional/linguistic and external/situational — will naturally tend to march in step . |