Example sentences of "it do mean [conj] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given trust as a first condition , the changes which followed each stage of review , assessment and evaluation came more easily — even if it did mean that some criticisms had first to be voiced and discussed ( JM Dobson conversation , 1990 ) . |
| 2 | Solitude adds a special quality to a walk and bad weather can do the same — though it does mean that many of us prefer to stay in the lowlands more often . |
| 3 | As we shall see in the following chapter , this does not necessarily mean that the interests of farmers and landowners are no longer dominant in rural society , but it does mean that this dominance has increasingly to be carried out by reaching an accommodation with these new conditions . |
| 4 | ‘ But it does mean that some people have to wait as much as three hours . |
| 5 | It is an imbalanced situation at the moment , it does mean that some investigators are doing types of work which |