Example sentences of "mean [v-ing] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've got the spare tablets but I mean getting the prescription . |
| 2 | This did not mean that he was at all sympathetic to evolutionary ideas , which seemed crude and mechanical ; but he was not patient either with ‘ Bridgewater writing ’ , because it meant seeing the hand of God more in some things than others . |
| 3 | From the AIB point of view the exercise meant devoting the time and effort of a number of experienced personnel to activities that served no benefit to the Branch . |
| 4 | Their impact lies in their sheer number : preserving just a few would mean accepting the loss in character of a remarkable and memorable landscape . |
| 5 | First , it should be clear , from what I have said already , that Grace Under Pressure does not mean accepting the situation with ‘ good grace ’ . |
| 6 | Patting does not mean slapping the horse with the open hand to make as much noise as possible , which is often done to impress the onlookers ; the horse 's neck should be caressed fondly and delicately . ’ |
| 7 | It was upstairs again , and now twenty-past eight , and she was informed by her apparent new friend that they had to join a small team to clean the toilets , which meant bringing the buckets down stairs , emptying them in the larger buckets arrayed along the wall by a side door ; then wash out each utensil under a pump and return it to its particular cubicle . |
| 8 | Learning by discovery does n't mean reinventing the wheel each time you need to move the wagon . |
| 9 | ‘ Steadfastness ’ meant helping the population of the occupied territories financially to stay put . |
| 10 | Whatever the ultimate aim might be , for the moment the CNAA was going as far only as delegating or sharing aspects of the validation process — which meant accepting the limitations of the CNAA 's existing Charter . |
| 11 | In any event , at the higher level Rusk announced that the independence of the Associated States of Indo-China within the framework of the French Union was now assured , even if this did mean squaring the circle or at least begging the question . |
| 12 | To turn his head sideways meant slicing the edges of his mouth with the taut wire , but he had to see what they were doing . |
| 13 | Ivica Racan , a ( Croatian ) member of the party presidium , said that this meant affirming the freedom of a citizen 's political association , keeping self-management strategic to socialist development , but did not mean that political pluralism " should be reduced simply to the question of a multiparty system , because this is only one of the possible forms of political pluralism " . |
| 14 | The Mamur Zapt was in charge of law and order in Cairo and that meant keeping the city quiet and stopping them all from getting at each other 's throats . |
| 15 | I do n't just mean decentralizing the housing by having it in area offices . |
| 16 | I still had time to kill , so I thought I 'd make a couple of ‘ phone calls and that meant employing the Middleditch gambit . |
| 17 | Only because it meant knocking the others over like , you know . |
| 18 | If he 'd become too demanding , and ‘ doing something about him ’ meant ending the relationship , that could well have been a motive for killing her . |
| 19 | In a House of Commons debate on the Griffiths proposals , the Health Minister , Mr David Mellor , said that a commitment to care in the community meant ending the incentives to residential care in the social security system . |
| 20 | Not by cheating … but if it meant trimming the petals with a pair of scisasors ten minutes before walking out the hall and the judge wo n't notice it … |
| 21 | In practice , it meant protecting the broadcasters from politicians and pressure groups more than the other way round . |
| 22 | This can mean meeting the Press on a Monday or Tuesday night to explain about the performance , answer any questions and arrange interviews . |
| 23 | To do this , unfortunately , meant filling the pages of their papers with the depressing and unfathomable minutiae of far-left politics . |
| 24 | However , to port the software over will mean replacing the database , recompilation and optimisation — an effort likely to take ‘ less than two man years and cost $200–250,000 ’ says Mace . |
| 25 | And this meant translating the concepts into empirical indicators . |
| 26 | This may well mean developing the range of presentational skills which have been part and parcel of effective classroom teaching for generations . |
| 27 | The answer may mean harsher timetabling , or it may mean reconsidering the school 's traditional use of its premises and their parts , but neither of these answers is impossible . |
| 28 | Training administrators must get to know their members better in order to ensure that courses were provided at the most convenient time — this might mean narrowing the training period down to 3 or 4 weeks in the year . |
| 29 | that does mean balancing the books , and it does mean moving away from some of the crazy policies of the present government , who have of course encouraged people and companies to avoid paying tax . |
| 30 | For a lord this meant securing the service of men who were already the servants of others . |