Example sentences of "it mean the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It meant the freedom to talk freely , discuss matters which could not be voiced within four walls . |
| 2 | It meant the ability to educate and supervise his own children rather than be driven to place them in the mill , and to preserve a customary life-style . |
| 3 | This meant more than the elimination of exploitation , which had already been achieved in the Stalinist period : it meant the elimination of the oppression of man by man , which could be achieved only by the working class itself and not by a bureaucracy on its behalf . |
| 4 | For George Tyson and his wife , Rosie , it meant the release from a tormenting 19 months which saw their £15,000 savings put at risk . |
| 5 | And if it meant the purchase of a hundred acres of timber , I 'd count it cash well spent — especially to get men who can work as I 've seen you lads work this week ! ’ |
| 6 | ‘ It became a standing joke that if Steve walked into an office and the phone went within a couple of minutes , it meant the Duchess had tracked him down , ’ a business colleague recalls . |
| 7 | The rising ‘ middle class technocratic ’ element in the party could believe this to mean that Labour would support modern managerial private industry while the left could imagine it meant the nationalisation of profitable growth industries in the name of state-sponsored technological advance . |
| 8 | It meant the disappearance from the line of battle of every European fleet of the converted merchantmen which had remained so important in wars at sea until the second half of the seventeenth century . |
| 9 | Both sides had saved face with this compromise , but it meant the clear-up would not keep pace with dumping and the work was unlikely to ever be completed . |
| 10 | I hat was foolish , for it meant the Frenchman would have to make his sabre cut across his own and his horse 's body . |
| 11 | I had assumed that it meant the characteristic of being alive , livingness , whatever it is that makes life life . |
| 12 | It meant the development of new dye recipes , one for each colour . |
| 13 | I still thought it meant the truck was used for hunting but I asked the labs to check her clothing just in case . |
| 14 | It meant the US Tour and that meant an attractive career for me as well as him , I hoped . |
| 15 | With the Arkansas governor a Rhodes Scholar at the university in 1968-69 looking all set for victory , it meant the US would become at least the 10th nation this century to boast a leader taught at the city of the dreaming spires . |
| 16 | It meant the costs and the financial implications were not explained to the relatives , although the consequences for them were quite serious . |
| 17 | For some of their land to be handed over to the Roman soldiers was a bitter pill to swallow , for it meant the loss of the Colne peninsula and much else , which left them only the Essex marches and lands to the north and the area round modern Chelmsford , which probably became their tribal centre . |
| 18 | To me it meant the loss of the pure reputation I prized , the good name I had guarded — scandal most horrible a woman could face . |
| 19 | It meant the acquisition of knowledge , to be sure ; but it also meant the envelopment and direction of the Orient by Spanish adelantados , for the greater glory and expansion of the vast empire of Spain . |
| 20 | Indeed , the name of an associated , serious nutritional disease , Kwashiorkor , originates from Ghana , where it meant the sickness of a suckling child when the next one is conceived ( Williams , 1963 ) . |
| 21 | It meant the horse that was placed between the shaf of a cart , as opposed to the trace-horse which pulled in front of the thiller . |
| 22 | It meant the quartet went one better at Roudnice in the Czech Republic than in the last championships , when they won silver behind Australia . |
| 23 | It meant the pound was set free to float to find its own value in world markets . |
| 24 | In mundane economic terms it meant the coexistence of public and private sectors . |
| 25 | But the eagerness to get to Sutton Bridge Station to start the trip was matched by the reluctance to get to Hunstanton Station at the end of the day for it meant the excursion was over : |
| 26 | For a start he 'd given up being a hippie , which must have been a relief to the Fish , not only professionally but because it meant the Fish could play Charlie soul records — Otis Redding and all — the only music he liked . |
| 27 | To the chagrin of Buckingham , however , because it meant the postponement of the opening of the College , the CNAA declined in 1974 to approve Buckingham courses in general and a law degree in particular . |
| 28 | This effectively destroyed any chance of progress at a crucial stage in the negotiations , it meant the collapse of the so-called ‘ Finlandisation ’ option . |
| 29 | Robyn knew that sound ; it meant the game was up . |
| 30 | To enthusiasts , it meant the passing of ‘ the dependency culture ’ in favour of a new wave of enterprise and individualism . |