Example sentences of "it mean [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It meant militants in the South had turned to violence to gain Home Rule , while militants in the North would use violence to prevent it . |
| 2 | Technically , it meant problems of co-ordination within production ; socially , the sheer boredom of a minutely divided labour process , or technical division of labour , showed signs of countering its technical possibilities of increasing productivity ; and , more widely , the collective bargaining by workers in large factories began to put pressure on profits . |
| 3 | To Anselm it meant freedom from an intolerable position . |
| 4 | Citizenship did not mean mere membership in the diluted modern sense ; it meant membership in its original sense , by analogy with the members or parts of the human body . |
| 5 | It meant passengers from Bicester and Aylesbury could get into London . |
| 6 | As well as causing a breakdown in the economic system , the inflation led to a spread of corruption ; it meant humiliation for many thousands of families , whilst a few successful speculators found themselves with untold wealth . |
| 7 | Secondly , it meant equality before the law , or ‘ the equal subjection of all classes to the ordinary law of the land administered by the ordinary Law Courts ’ . |
| 8 | Philip Urbach was encouraged by a German-sounding word ( ‘ Maybe English was n't so difficult after all ’ ) , without realising that it meant war over Poland . |
| 9 | Firstly , it meant access to library housekeeping circulation files designed primarily for staff use which could also serve as a rudimentary catalogue for the library user . |
| 10 | He was n't proud of the ability to go berserk because it meant loss of control . |
| 11 | In practice it means government by the representatives of a majority of the people . |
| 12 | Yet , despite the difference , the attractions of marriage for women in both groups comes through clearly ; it both symbolizes and constitutes the movement from adolescence to full adulthood ; it means independence from the family of origin ; and it is hoped that it will be financially advantageous . |
| 13 | But it means curtains for Denise and you . |
| 14 | This does not mean separation from sinners , in a sense of isolation and self-satisfaction like the monks of Qumran ; instead , it means involvement with needy , fallen , spoiled humanity , following the example and endued with the Spirit of him who was a friend of tax gatherers and sinners . |
| 15 | Yes , I spoke to Mo Magill , he 'll see us tomorrow morning , we 'll fly up on the shuttle , I do n't know what we 'll get , but … and I 've got a line into St Louis : there 's a thing called the Western Manuscripts collection at UMSL — ghastly word , but they use it themselves , it means University of Missouri-St Louis — that latches on to the papers of operations like CCOAC , and they 've got them . |
| 16 | In old Annamese it means Village of the Boxwoods , after the trees that originally grew there . |
| 17 | It means money for the clubs and we have a tremendously committed and talented unit who genuinely care about the game . ’ |
| 18 | It means people in lower bands — the vast majority — will have to pay more . |
| 19 | It means commitment by practitioners to the maintenance of high standards as a matter of integrity and principle , not because they are imposed from outside . |
| 20 | It means Island of the Seals . |
| 21 | It means training in electronics and diagnostics for our staff , and it means carrying more spare parts , ’ he said . |
| 22 | Well it means wind in the sail . |
| 23 | It means jobs for twenty five people . |
| 24 | So if you see that phrase written down anywhere you 'll know it means Sale of Goods Act . |
| 25 | The trouble is that the French and German governments , swayed by their domestic farming electorates , have been unwilling to accept radical reform of CAP , even if it means access to foreign markets in which the EC is better able to compete . |
| 26 | It means Star of the Sea . ’ |
| 27 | It means beneficiaries of a trust where , exceptionally , the firm is itself the trustee . |
| 28 | If it means business for them I should think they should want to do more . |
| 29 | The form of privatisation , normally held to be conversion into a limited company with sale of shares and promise of profits generated from the company 's activities was unclear , but most took it to mean sale at auction . |