Example sentences of "mean to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nursing includes ‘ caring ’ about the family and what they mean to the patient . |
| 2 | Well t I mean to the extent that that is happening , that there is a development of trade on the sort of , you know , with the periphery of the empire and with erm areas outside the empire , and that was certainly happening in this period , I do n't see why it should have a significant impact on the peasant population because there is n't really any evidence that it 's , in a sense , trickling down and enriching the peasantry . |
| 3 | Can we talk about job description , because I am not clear about those , I mean to the end of the audit , I , I rang up to day and asked about whether the , who should be signing them . |
| 4 | You mean to the garage ? |
| 5 | Lee sat with her hand gripped tightly around the curved handle of a pint mug of beer and tried to work out who could have decorated the rostrum with this masochistic phrase and when and why and what it meant to the writer and whether the evening 's entertainment was aware of the invitation signalling beneath her feet . |
| 6 | She had never liked the arrangement that had installed her in the Ward household , but having heard the tragic story , and knowing how much it meant to the woman who had rescued her from a life of loneliness , how could she refuse ? |
| 7 | There is indeed plenty in print about them , but it is economic , argumentative stuff , mostly condemnatory and lacking in any understanding of what this old world meant to the peasant , and of what he lost by its passing . |
| 8 | What does it mean to the youngster ? |
| 9 | What will this mean to the nursery school . |
| 10 | In no more than 25 words explain what an original Keith Hill painting would mean to the winner . |
| 11 | I 'm realistically assessing it and I 'm aware of what it could mean to the company . |
| 12 | I would like readers to know just how serious the threat from opencast mining is , what it could mean to the landscape , nature and communities of the Gwendraeth , and what they can do to help prevent it . |
| 13 | All that does mean to the client , they 're paying the premium for twenty thousand for that period , that they 'll never ever claim on . |
| 14 | And what does that mean to the tourist from Britain ? |
| 15 | Now Celtic 's leading scorer , Payton is aware of what victory would mean to the club 's supporters in another season without a trophy . |
| 16 | He 's worked on the site for 46 years and he knows what a heritage museum would mean to the town . |
| 17 | It is ironical to contemplate what this economy measure could have meant to the University had the test-tube fusion work succeeded : of the billions of dollars in royalties , Southampton — where Pons had got his start in the field and where Fleischmann had spent over twenty years — would have had claim to none . |
| 18 | Town Mayor Coun Frank Platt will be talking on today 's BBC Radio 1 Simon Bates Show , spelling out what the success has meant to the town and how the council and its partners plan to promote environmental awareness . |
| 19 | Again , there are very many over-valued ideas about weight and what that means to the individual and a pre-occupation with weight . |
| 20 | Among the many other things that Easter means to the Christian , it must also mean a particular sense of proportion about our griefs and sufferings . |
| 21 | I mean that they have what they call ‘ access ’ to the water , which means to the docks which means to the port which means to the open sea which means to the world . |
| 22 | It 's , I , recur here to something I said in the broadcast I did earlier in this series , that a British national characteristic which distinguishes us very much from every Continental country , is our erm phobia about committing money and means to the state to spend for our common good . |
| 23 | In their role as wives and lovers , then , women , for Kant , were viewed as means to the satisfaction of the man 's needs and wants . |
| 24 | What sponsorship means to the Hinch family . |
| 25 | What whaling means to the Japanese |
| 26 | It would be fascinating to know exactly what that phrase really means to the French . ) |
| 27 | I mean that they have what they call ‘ access ’ to the water , which means to the docks which means to the port which means to the open sea which means to the world . |
| 28 | Could you just remind us of what it actually means to the economy of this country . |
| 29 | The curriculum , as it is , functions to make children with severe learning difficulties as near normal as possible — the means to the end — not to enhance who they actually are . |
| 30 | On such grounds as these he argued that the experience of the author and that of the reader must necessarily be different , that ‘ what a poem means is as much what it means to others as what it means to the author ’ ( Eliot 1955 : 130 ) . |