Example sentences of "have different meanings " in BNC.
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| 1 | The marriage contract still has different meanings for men and women and , although unwritten in Britain , it can not be altered . |
| 2 | The term indexing language can seem rather daunting and has certainly had different meanings in its different incarnations . |
| 3 | Words however are only symbols and they can have different meanings for different people . |
| 4 | But this definition ignores the possibility that lesbianism might have different meanings ; for some , it might be a matter of object choice but not of political or personal identity . |
| 5 | Anderson 's accusation , which conflates the concept of the differential with the notion of the random , is therefore really directed against the possibility that different histories may have different meanings . |
| 6 | Another complication arises from the fact that the same term may have different meanings in different contexts . |
| 7 | The paper is ambitious and given its scope , inevitably , some interesting assertions are not fully developed , inter alia that using psychodynamic theory at different times will have different meanings for practitioners ; and that in the UK a preoccupation with anti-discriminatory perspectives has slowed down theory building . |
| 8 | However , he did not allow her to become too swamped with nervous , trembling uncertainty , as he began to talk calmly and reasonably about his brother 's future life in America , describing some of the amusing mistakes he himself had made in assuming that the English and the Americans spoke the same language — when , in fact , so many words had different meanings . |
| 9 | If I understand him aright , it ought to be possible to show that Descartes ' stripping away of the ‘ accidental ’ qualities of objects is illegitimate , because based on a series of elisions of meaning between one use of an expression and another where the two expressions look the same but have different meanings . |
| 10 | Pansies are a very popular flower and have different meanings according to their colour . |
| 11 | Words have different meanings in different contexts . |
| 12 | There are some key terms that are sure to cause trouble because they have different meanings in International Relations and in philosophy . |
| 13 | In addition , the terms used have different meanings in different circumstances . |